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Re:The Ivy League Doesn’t Need Taxpayers’ Help by simbomi on Monday October 17, 2016 @09:15PM (#12731258)
It's clearly a token effort at disguising their elitist admissions procress. If they let in too many poor people the rich wouldn't send their chilren there. The whole point of these Ivy League schools is to prove membership in the club of the elite.
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Re:The Ivy League Doesn’t Need Taxpayers’ Help by djf1 on Monday October 17, 2016 @10:08PM (#12731499)
Admission to all the Ivy League schools is need blind, so I don't think letting in too many poor people is a big concern for them.
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Re:The Ivy League Doesn’t Need Taxpayers’ Help by saretired on Monday October 17, 2016 @10:24PM (#12731555)
When I was in grad school at an Ivy League university in the early 80s, it was reported in the school paper that about 50% of undergraduates were legacies.

Has that changed?

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Re:The Ivy League Doesn’t Need Taxpayers’ Help by _acme on Monday October 17, 2016 @10:47PM (#12731638)
Yes. It was far easier to get into college in the '80s, in part because far fewer bothered to attend; this resulted in more legacies then than now (I believe the percentage of legacies at Harvard is in the single digits).
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Re:The Ivy League Doesn’t Need Taxpayers’ Help by saretired on Monday October 17, 2016 @11:52PM (#12731919)
According to this article, 16% of the Harvard class of 2019 are legacies: http://features.thecrimson.com/2015/freshman-survey/makeup-n... (The survey was voluntary, and there is no mention of the percentage response. Apparently Harvard does not publish the actual number of legacies.)

So yes, things are better than in my day. I would say that the number of people who would not have bothered to attend Harvard in the 80's was very small indeed.

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Re:The Ivy League Doesn’t Need Taxpayers’ Help by DasIch on Monday October 17, 2016 @10:51PM (#12731654)
You don't need to come up with a conspiracy here. Ivy League schools simply don't care about providing as many people as possible with a good education.

The goal is rather to be the best in research, education and in the experience of studying for the people that do attend. They achieve that goal by significantly limiting how many people are allowed to attend, especially poor students that take money away from the school.

If you really want to help poor people, ignore what the rich are doing, ignore inequality and identify who those poor people are, what problems they have and fix them. That will be far more beneficial than attacking the "elites".

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