Posted on 11/28/2023 8:42:26 AM PST by Twotone
If you want to improve your kid’s chances of getting into an elite university — and you can afford it — it certainly doesn’t hurt to start donating major cash to the school as early as possible.
But some wealthy Jewish families who have done just that at schools like Harvard and Columbia, sometimes beginning when their children were in first grade, are now writing it off as a loss.
Following an explosion of pro-Palestine rallies and anti-Israel sentiment in the Ivy League, some families of high-school seniors are crossing the schools off their application lists.
“They’re not paying a single dollar more to the schools,” college admissions consultant Christopher Rim told The Post. “They don’t want to be associated with these schools. They are totally out.”
Rim, who is the founder of Command Education, said people are changing their minds last minute in this application cycle.
“It’s top of mind for the current seniors,” Rim said. “They’re asking to edit and refine their college lists now.”
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Good. Now if only everyone else could follow suit.
Before we had kids, I worked at Emory Univ. Beautiful campus with lots of Jewish students, despite its Methodist affiliation. Emory has a medical school, a law school, etc. so I don’t consider it subpar in any way.
Given that a measurable part of the “eliteness” of those formerly respected universities was due to the Jewish students, when they leave, the ivy league becomes more and more like the poison ivy league. Oh, and the reason that the Jews do so well is that their families have two things lacking with the left: discipline and morals. (This comes from a person raised as Catholic - back when the Pope was also Catholic.)
The Ivies and many of the other supposedly “elite” schools have been coasting for years on their historic prestige while actively abandoning the intellectual disciplines and integrity — the commitment to excellence and the pursuit of truth — that made them great in the first place. They have become academic apostates.
The rationalization is that they are doing this for “social justice;” they conceive of themselves as allocating prestige and rubber stamping credentials that have long been considered gateways to elite careers. This is a fraud against their students, future employers, and down the road, future customers and clients who are now discovering that the Ivy League degree is no longer a symbol of excellence.
By all means, parents should abandon the frauds and actively seek out schools that still maintain standards. They’re getting harder and harder to find, and the Borg is working hard to enforce conformity, but this is still how the counterculture must be built.
I think one premise of this article is flawed. The days of donating to get preferential treatment are over. The DEI/HR crowd have taken over admissions offices.
I know someone who graduated from a prestigious private University and donated A LOT over the years - like buildings have his name on them. Both of his straight A, high ACT scoring kids were denied.
At Georgia Tech (public) I know a few young people that have been perfect students with nearly perfect ACT/ACT scores that were denied - all with alumni parents that donated.
It’s almost like the admissions crowd is punishing generational success in academics.
it is not just them. everybody we know or meet has written these terrorist nest schools out of their estate distribution plans.
to HELL with Fakestinian terrorist staging camps in USA!
there are plenty of very good colleges that do not recruit or tolerate such krap — they stick a lot more to helping their students learn, get a proper education
“their families have two things lacking with the left: discipline and morals”
It is more than that.
Many Jewish families are fanatical about their kids having high achievement in school—many Chinese families are the same.
Many Jewish families are also mini debating societies—not just about trivial day to day stuff but a wide range of issues so the kids get exposed early to the sum of human knowledge—and many learn to enjoy the “give and take” on those topics. That creates a greater motivation to learn so they can actively participate in those discussions.
It is not just politics that is discussed—it is philosophy/religion, the span of human history, cultures of foreign lands, the arts and humanities etc.
If learning can be both “fun” and rewarding (on a psychological level) the battle is won.
Now end the preference for Ivy Leaguers for the federal bench and society will be improved by common sense instead of snobbery.
The media, schools, and political organizations are afraid that terror will be directed toward them.
IMHO.
The Ivy Leagues time in the sun is rapidly coming to and end.
Tax endowments.
Jews were discriminated against in college admissions for a long time.
From Wikipedia on Jewish Quota:
According to historian David Oshinsky, writing about Jonas Salk, “Most of the surrounding medical schools (Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Yale) had rigid quotas in place. In 1935 Yale accepted 76 applicants from a pool of 501. About 200 of those applicants were Jewish and only five got in.” He notes that Dean Milton Winternitz’s instructions were remarkably precise: “Never admit more than five Jews, and take no blacks at all.”
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Then Jews supported the Dems who pushed quotas for more black applicants to be accepted due to their race.
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The many anti-semitic surges from students in rallies and marches and incidents of Jewish students taking down anything in their dorm rooms that shows they are Jewish now cause Jewish parents to change their minds.
80% of them were rooting for the wrong side politically and should feel remorse for that.
Hahaha - perfect gif !!!
“Jewish families’ biggest concern is really about how the administrations didn’t react to protect all of their students,” Rim told The Post.
Money from private Jewish families cannot compete with state funds from middle-eastern Mohammedan countries. So the "elite" universities know on which side their bread is buttered.
Jewish, Indian, and Chinese students and parents also don’t give a crap about sports. They’re not trying to chase an athletic “scholarship” (which shouldn’t exist).
But how will they network to get top jobs in the Washington bureaucracy and New York investment banking establishments?
MERIT & SUCCESS are being punished all over the USA...AND EVEN THE WHOLE WORLD
Ding, ding, dine - we have a thread winnah!
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