Re:Students suing elite U.S. colleges seek 'wealth favoritis...
by busterarm on Saturday February 11, 2023 @05:45PM
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> I love how admissions of athletes to play sports gets a total pass. Probably because it putatively is a good means for minorities to get into schools, even if they are separated off into purely sports training tracks and joke academics.
And sadly, even if they succeed on this track into the world of professional sports, the joke academics and lack of financial training (if you had a financial education you would never play college sports anyway...) mean that they're set up to go broke and fail in life as soon as the injuries add up or their athletic ability is no longer exceptional to their peer group.
Re:Students suing elite U.S. colleges seek 'wealth favoritis...
by rtpg on Saturday February 11, 2023 @07:10PM
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I don’t understand how being bought in with your parents money is ok yet an athelete actually doing a thing themselves with their own bodies shouldn’t “get a pass”. Especially given that they still have to, you know, pass classes!
Let’s not pretend all those legacies are showing up to class and working hard.
Re:Students suing elite U.S. colleges seek 'wealth favoritis...
by Ekaros on Sunday February 12, 2023 @05:55AM
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Because sports have absolutely zero to do with education. Or even they should be considered negative thing. Taking time away from studying.
Re:Students suing elite U.S. colleges seek 'wealth favoritis...
by mmarq on Sunday February 12, 2023 @10:17AM
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I think for the same weird reason why people tend to be OK with top athletes making billions while they are upset at Gates and Bezos. Don’t ask me what it is.
I mean, I do think that students getting in because daddy gives a couple million isn't the end of the world.
The college I went to 20 years ago went away from need-blind admissions, which basically meant if you can pay you get some preference. Now THAT was bad, because it affected the general student population. If instead you have a reserved number of "bribe" students and that means pure-merit admissions can be done with the rest of the students, well, ok.
I love how admissions of athletes to play sports gets a total pass. Probably because it putatively is a good means for minorities to get into schools, even if they are separated off into purely sports training tracks and joke academics.
The real issue is the MBAs running the colleges as a profit industry. Except there's no profits, so they pay... themselves.