Biden Looks to End Education 'Privilege,' but Pulled Strings to Get Granddaughter Into UPenn

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Biden Looks to End Education 'Privilege,' but Pulled Strings to Get Granddaughter Into UPenn
By Becky Noble | 2:15 PM on July 03, 2023

As expected, Democrats and the left threw a temper tantrum last week when the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action for use in college admissions. President Joe Biden blasted the Court for its decision and, during his comments, also spoke of “privilege” in education. He announced that he would be directing the Department of Education to “analyze what practices help build a [sic] more inclusive and diverse student bodies, and what practices hold that back, practices like legacy admissions that expand privilege instead of opportunity.” Biden also rightly stated, “Today, for too many schools, the only people who benefit from the system are the wealthy and the well-connected. The odds have been stacked against working people for much too long.” That statement turns out to be an epic example of “ok for me but not for thee” and a stark reminder that the Bidens are champions at that game.

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Joe Biden Says He Wants To Crack Down on 'Privilege' in Education. He Once Called UPenn's President To Get His Granddaughter In.
The president leaned on Ivy League connections to get his subpar student granddaughter into college
Joseph Simonson and Andrew Kerr   
July 1, 2023

Shortly after the Supreme Court declared affirmative action college admission policies unconstitutional, President Joe Biden said his administration would direct the Department of Education to scrutinize how "practices like legacy admissions … expand privilege instead of opportunity."

The department could start by examining how politically connected families like the Bidens get their children into Ivy League schools.

In 2018, Hunter Biden tapped his father and a number of Biden family connections to help get his daughter into the University of Pennsylvania. Text messages and emails from Hunter Biden's laptop, reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, show how Joe and Hunter Biden worked behind the scenes to get a subpar family member into one of the most selective schools in the country.

Maisy Biden's college admissions process could raise a number of uncomfortable questions for the president. The saga highlights exactly the kind of "legacy admissions" Biden has slammed. The story also highlights the Biden family's occasionally shady dealings with the University of Pennsylvania just as congressional Republicans are probing alleged ethical misconduct by both Joe and Hunter Biden.

Maisy Biden was never much of a student. But she had her sights set on the University of Pennsylvania, whose 5.9 percent acceptance rate made it one of the most exclusive schools in the country.  ...

It's unclear what the meetings were about, but they took place one year before the University of Pennsylvania launched the Penn Biden Center.

The Penn Biden Center proved to be a lucrative endeavor for both the university and Joe Biden. The University of Pennsylvania raked in over $1 billion in foreign funding after launching the think tank, the Free Beacon reported. And the university paid Joe Biden more than $900,000 from 2017 through April 2019, even though he taught no regular classes and attended around a dozen ticketed events at the campus, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. ...

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