Re:I Ghostwrite Chinese Students' Ivy League Admissions Essays
by hkmurakami on Sunday August 31, 2014 @06:31PM
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Legacy admissions (which is alive and well at my alma mater) definitely helps to perpetuate this as well.
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Re:I Ghostwrite Chinese Students' Ivy League Admissions Essays
by w1ntermute on Sunday August 31, 2014 @06:53PM
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That's true, but legacy admissions is out in the open - universities acknowledge the existence of the practice. But the inequality created by ghostwriting and admissions coaching is particularly pernicious because it occurs through a system that the universities claim is meant and supposed to give everyone an equal shot.