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Re:MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions... by knzhou on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:10PM (#22639862)
The bribery scandal especially depresses me, because a lot of the colleges impacted had official bribery systems in place -- you're supposed to donate to the "Development Office" to get on the "Dean's List", or some other set of euphemisms. What the colleges were actually outraged about is that these middling-rich people tried to cheap out by paying a smaller bribe to some other office.
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Re:MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions... by ThrowawayR2 on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:54PM (#22641002)
If someone donates enough money for a lab or an entire building or something that can be used by students for decades as a means to get their underperforming kid in, yeah, that's technically a bribe but I'm kind of okay with that because the good so vastly outweighs the bad.
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Re:MIT to no longer consider SAT subject tests in admissions... by grugagag on Friday March 20, 2020 @09:06PM (#22643356)
How many labs can an Uni build to accept all the silverspoons? A lot of money end up not in the common pool of resources but are pocketed in different ways by the staff and board. This myth is becoming trite already. The rich pay their way in and not necessarily for the education but for the credentials.
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