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Re:College Cheating Scandal: An Admissions Officer Speaks Out by zamfi on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:46AM (#19376579)
The (magnet) elementary school I attended used a lottery to select among the top X% of applicants. It did not "tarnish the pedigree of the school" or anything like that.

There is already a lottery to select which students among the thousands who apply will be offered admission. It's just not uniformly random.

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Re:College Cheating Scandal: An Admissions Officer Speaks Out by TheLoneAdmin on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @10:13AM (#19378773)
You can't compare the reputation of a local elementary school versus Harvard.
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Re:College Cheating Scandal: An Admissions Officer Speaks Out by notyourday on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @10:34AM (#19379019)
There are pre-schools in NYC that have tuition comparable to the Harvard ones.
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Re:College Cheating Scandal: An Admissions Officer Speaks Out by notfromhere on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @11:23AM (#19379567)
The only thing it'll tarnish is Harvard's reputation for accepting the children of the elite.
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