for all the whining we hear weekly about how terrible affirmative action is, and how much it hurts our kids, i found this article to be a breath of fresh air.http://www.boston.com/news/globe/
Should Harvard, which annually turns away about 2,000 valedictorians and has an endowment of nearly $35 billion, be in the business of wasting its academic offerings on some students admitted on the basis of pedigree?
That number is crazy. Can you imagine being the valedictorian of your school, possessing the sense of pride that comes with that, and not getting accepted to the college of your choice?
Awesome sauce. Higher education looks increasingly like some sort of bait and switch. And that's why my sister, who founded her own non-profit while in high school, didn't get into Harvard (just Yale ha!) On a related note, now that I'm a UT student, I have discovered that the University of Texas in Austin now gets a sum total of about 10% of their total funding from the state, and has resorted to enormous tuition hikes in the last few years to make up most of the difference. For the rich, by the rich.
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Should Harvard, which annually turns away about 2,000 valedictorians and has an endowment of nearly $35 billion, be in the business of wasting its academic offerings on some students admitted on the basis of pedigree?
That number is crazy. Can you imagine being the valedictorian of your school, possessing the sense of pride that comes with that, and not getting accepted to the college of your choice?
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On a related note, now that I'm a UT student, I have discovered that the University of Texas in Austin now gets a sum total of about 10% of their total funding from the state, and has resorted to enormous tuition hikes in the last few years to make up most of the difference. For the rich, by the rich.
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