FBI accuses wealthy parents in college-entrance bribery scheme

Re:FBI accuses wealthy parents in college-entrance bribery s... by gumby on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @01:32PM (#19370735)

Your first two statements I agree with but they don't really apply to this article which is about undergraduates.

Undergrads are pretty much irrelevant to major research institutions (e.g. my undergraduate alma mater MIT spends only about 16% of its budget on undergrads who are actually subsidized -- tuition is about 14% of revenue). Grad students are what matter and apart from the B school they are mostly paid (barely) to attend.

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Re:FBI accuses wealthy parents in college-entrance bribery s... by gowld on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @05:00PM (#19372965)

Research students are paid to intend. professional students (business, law, government, medical, dental, etc) are not. And some scientific/art students are not research students (often these are students who enter as Masters candidates, not PhD candidates)

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Re:FBI accuses wealthy parents in college-entrance bribery s... by gumby on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @05:51PM (#19373426)

I was replying to a comment specifically about research universities, which are indeed a small subset of all institutes of higher learning.

Research, including scientific research, does happen at institutions that aren't "research universities."

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