Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New?

Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by maxxxxx on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:43PM (#19374615)

We are in the process of building up a new aristocracy. This process has repeated itself over all of history.

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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by strikelaserclaw on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:49PM (#19374661)

Hell yea, look at our presidents, we got legacy admissions for the biggest job in America.

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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by maxxxxx on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:50PM (#19374667)

It would be nice if somebody like Truman got elected. Somebody who had real experience how the regular citizen lives.

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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by InitialLastName on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @08:59PM (#19374718)

You're right.

Now, if only we could agree on what the "regular citizen's" life looks like.

a) It's probably a woman, since they're the majority of the population and have a distinctly different life experience to men

b) It's probably someone who lives in a city, since that was 80% of Americans in the 2010 census.

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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by maxxxxx on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:06PM (#19374749)

I would be happy if that person didn’t come from an Ivy League school and whose parents aren’t multimillionaires.

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Re:Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? by strikelaserclaw on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @09:13PM (#19374794)

Honestly they probably can't do worse.

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