Posted on 07/24/2023 8:48:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Captain Obvious spreading clarity.
I believe more and more people are starting to see that. “College” is a place where morons go to learn to make protest signs and play in the streets when they aren’t gone to “spring break” and getting high.
They actually needed to do a study to figure out what is obvious to everyone with a minimum of commonsense?
Could it be that rich people are smarter, more competitive, more driven, and can afford better secondary education?
That’s why people want to be rich.
Duh.
A captain obvious moment for the writer. Not mentioned is being richer gets you into elite colleges to make you stupid.
I am so tired of this conversation, Harvard and Yale are TINY schools! Harvard is only 7153 students, and Yale is only 6,536!
Of course they are going to reject most applicants!
Um, smarter kids tend to come from smarter parents—who tend to have higher incomes.
Yes, there is that 2.2x better acceptance rate for equal scores, but that is a fraction of the advantage given to preferred minorities.
I’d get public funds out of higher ed in general, other than community colleges, so colleges would legitimately have more freedom as to whom they accept.
A pledge goes a long way to admission. I got into Harvard law school simply because my girlfriend’s grandparents were known wealthy people of NYC. I didn’t decide to go, but admission was guaranteed regardless of any normal admissions requirements.
This, I think, is one of the key areas where the Left goes wrong.
They seem to see the world as a Zero-sum game. The only reason I can possibly have "stuff" is because I stole it from you. I guess wealth cannot increase. I guess I cannot add value. No. All of my stuff has simply been stolen from you.
So, if you look around and see successful white people, that means that they have robbed black people. That's how this zero-sum game works.
Now, the Left realizes that making black people all become rich and successful is not something that the Left is capable of. And so, to balance things, the Left's primary goal seems to be to stop the rich from living good lives. Take stuff away from hard-working, successful people. Make white people miserable. That's the "solution" that the Left offers.
” students from private, nonreligious high schools... were twice as likely to be admitted as similar students — those with the same SAT scores, race, gender and parental income — from public schools in high-income neighborhoods”
It is likely that students in private school are given more hours of instruction, more homework, and better instruction, so that they are more articulate, know more languages, and generally better educated. Otherwise the money spent on private school would be wasted. Also, extracurricular sports is required at many private schools. They are studying and working out until 5:30 while the public school kids are playing video games or worse.
You don’t have to be rich to learn nowadays. A graduate with an online degree earned under rigorous testing and standards is worth more to an employer that a Harvard degree doled out via ethnic quota to students with an entitlement mentality. The Ivy League isn’t what it used to be.
I worked for a company that sold SaaS that built financial and philanthropic profiles on people. Some of our biggest and best customers were higher ed. They would actually screen applicants prior to admission and base their decisions on their worthiness.
““Being rich really helps you”...
_get into an elite college...
_live in a better house...
_get better health care...
_drive better cars...
_take better vacations...
_etc., etc., etc. ...”
Live by a different set of laws
As long as wealth isn’t abused there’s nothing wrong with it it’s every humans goal to live a better life it’s how we got here.
Nothing dishonorable with being poor it’s just a harder life.
Which is better for a school’s economic viability: wealthy parents who can pay full tuition, room, board, and fees? Or students from less wealthy families that require scholarships, grants, and loans and mat default?
There seem to be a number of online courses where the motivated can be well edumacuted in short order on specific topics.
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One of my grandsons is taking an online course in German language, he loves it, he’s nine years old.
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