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An administration employee of Kushner's prep school was shocked when he got into Harvard.
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My book exposed a grubby secret of American higher education: that the rich buy their under-achieving children’s way into elite universities with massive, tax-deductible donations. It reported that New Jersey real estate developer Charles Kushner had pledged $2.5 million to Harvard University in 1998, not long before his son Jared was admitted to the prestigious Ivy League school. At the time, Harvard accepted about one of every nine applicants. (Nowadays, it only takes one out of twenty.)
I also quoted administrators at Jared’s high school, who described him as a less than stellar student and expressed dismay at Harvard’s decision.
“There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard,” a former official at The Frisch School in Paramus, New Jersey, told me. “His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted. It was a little bit disappointing because there were at the time other kids we thought should really get in on the merits, and they did not.”
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https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-kushners-curious-acceptance-into-harvard
I looked into his background and I swear to god this is true, I can't post where his dad works etc, but it is true. This kid has legacy status and his dad is a c-suite level executive. They are affluent from the Beverly Hills area.
The real question gamergate and sjws need to ask themselves is......
Should these affluent people be given affirmative action, when they come from wealthy backgrounds?
I hope that gamergate and the sjws can come together to oppose legacy status in society.
Why are the Zoe Quinn's (VV Family), Lifschitz's, Romero's, Graner's being given preferential treatment in the video game industry, when they come from affluent backgrounds? Why can't they help poor inner city people, Appalachian people, etc. Theres plenty of homeless in San Francisco that need help too. It's always these damn legacies that get help.
How legacy status works
http://www.amazon.com/The-Price-Admission-Americas-Colleges/dp/1400097975
The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges
A book was literally written about how poor a candidate for admission to Harvard Kushner fils was, how much Kushner père had to pay that university to buy the former entrance, and how that process writ large contributes to structural inequalities throughout America.
Cf., The Price of Admission
His dad gave a shit load of money to them. There's even a book about it.
https://www.amazon.com/Price-Admission-Americas-Colleges-Outside/dp/1400097975/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1479403171&sr=8-1&keywords=the+price+of+admission
A book wholly worth checking out is The Price of Admission, which uses Jared Kushner as a case study of how the wealthy can subvert all types of academic rigor in order to get the correct looking resume.
I just hope that this whole process with Trump and Kavanaugh can snap people out of the whole meritocracy ideal once and for all, because god knows it's gotten us into a lot of trouble.
An excellent primer on the topic: The Price of Admission, by Daniel Golden (2007).
It's an interesting question of whether the admissions administrator accepting a direct bribe would be a crime; it probably would be if this is a public institution, while it would merely be unethical privately.
But just pulling strings ? Hell, that's called Tuesday.
Daniel Golden won a Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for his reporting on admissions preferences at elite American universities given to the children of wealthy donors and influential alumni.
He turned his reportage into an excellent book, released in 2007, titled "The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates".
The context of his book is, of course, only partly related to the topic of this post, but it does add an important piece to the picture of how the wealthy and powerful receive advantages at every stage in the game. And how they are able to transmit said advantages to their children, to help them get a leg up in their rise to the top.
Hi, rogerd,
Thanks for understanding Castle so well. I might have to break this into separate replies:
Another aspect is what sort of people gain success? We have a belief that, if you are naturally blessed with talent, or if you work hard you'll be successful. That's a myth too -- the book Outliers shows the processes that are really going on. Also a Vice article. Another book.
Jant is more laid-back than the others (horizontal, in fact), because he can fly, he can take a bunch of drugs and still maintain immortality. The immortals are on a spectrum -- at one end are the biological freaks like Jant (and Simoon), and at the other end are people who practise all the time, like Hurricane. Lightning is somewhere in the middle.
And I'm showing the other ways people rise to success, or 'get in to the Circle'. I was very naive at the beginning. I thought success in our world was due to personal effort. But you can see how Mist and Ata were both born to seafaring lives -- Shearwater Mist was a coastal trader (so was his father). Ata was from Grass Isle. In Fair Rebel and the next book it's deeper so for example [Gayle](/s "the Lawyer has been "hothoused" into it by her parents -- also lawyers -- who started her in law at an early age"). I'm interested in the effect that has on her, and also to compare her with [Simoon](/s "the Treasurer, who finds his mathematics effortless and enjoyable").
If you're interested in the history of Ivy League admissions specifically, there's a pretty comprehensive book on it called The Chosen. You can also check out The Price of Admissions which explains how the system's main purpose is protecting the class status of rich whites.
> not smart enough to get into MIT
https://www.amazon.com/Price-Admission-Americas-Colleges-Outside/dp/1400097975
I havent read it, but this is supposed to be pretty good. Might be a good place to start:
The Price of Admission
It's funny that this is a Harvard study because their (and other Ivy League schools) less than fair admissions practices heavily contribute to aristocracies, which contribute to the rise of oligarchies.
Check out this book.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1400097975?pc_redir=1410065014&robot_redir=1
Though that's not necessarily true. There's even a book on it.
https://www.amazon.com/Price-Admission-Americas-Colleges-Outside/dp/1400097975
However, while we do know there is wiggle room in the SSS requirement, we also know that we don't meet the requirements for that exception.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/dec/07/world-education-rankings-maths-science-reading
Scroll down to the regional rankings: Shanghai was #1, followed by South Korea.
> How would they be out studying someone who attends the same university? Wouldn't that mean they were equal, educationally?
I was referring to OP's stupid claim that 'Chinese cheat their way into Western universities'. No, they out-study their way into Western universities, because of the premium Chinese society places on education, and the way in which children spend their whole lives studying for super-competitive entrance exams which determine their entire futures.
>Where are you getting these numbers for your so-called "legacy" students? You do realize that even these students must have an education in the first place to attend these universities?
No. They literally buy their way into universities like Harvard, or are granted admission despite lacking the competitive requirements because their parents went there.
Sources:
CNBC: Harvard's incoming freshman class is one-third legacy—here's why that's a problem
The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance Into Harvard
O.K. Fair point? But then you make that situation as rare as possible, not your priority. Tell you what read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Price-Admission-Americas-Colleges-Outside/dp/1400097975. Or let me point you tothis article: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-kushners-curious-acceptance-into-harvard Δ