Grad transfers

Started by blackwidow, December 22, 2020, 08:17:04 AM

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upprdeck

Its not very good for any family in the middle class at most colleges.

Trotsky

Quote from: upprdeckIts not very good for any family in the middle class at most colleges.

My (no doubt completely erroneous) impression was Princeton finally just bit the bullet and filled the donut hole a few years ago.  "Fuck it.  There will be two classes of students: kids who deserve to be here who come for free and rich assholes' short bus droppings who will buy their credential at an utterly INSANE cost."  

75% Richard Feynman, 25% Jared Kushner.

PU could do that because they shit money in their sleep.  Harvard, Yale, and Stanford can do it too.  Everybody else has to either be more modest or have a larger contingent of useless rich fucks cluttering campus.

But I thought we'd gotten a lot better.  I guess maybe not?

upprdeck

I am always amazed at the value of the cars driving in the parking lots, compared to the lots where the employees park

Trotsky

Quote from: upprdeckI am always amazed at the value of the cars driving in the parking lots, compared to the lots where the employees park

We've always been SATs + Parents' Income = Admissions Score, same as the Feeble Four.  Hopefully we've been a little better what with the motto in English and the SUNY Ithaca working class hero land grant bullshit, but I met plenty of Fellow Kids as an undergrad from the best prep schools who couldn't find their ass with their nanny's two hands and a map.

George64

Quote from: TrotskyThere will be two classes of students: kids who deserve to be here who come for free and rich assholes' short bus droppings who will buy their credential at an utterly INSANE cost . . .  25% Jared Kushner.

In addition to tuition, at least Harvard got $2.5 million from Kushner's felon father.  Meanwhile, the spawn of a self-proclaimed billionaire got into Penn.  I suppose that Penn thought it might get a building, or at least an endowed professorship, but they got nothing but acute embarrassment.  They should have talked, beforehand, to some of the contractors that he stiffed.

Trotsky

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Quote from: TrotskyThere will be two classes of students: kids who deserve to be here who come for free and rich assholes' short bus droppings who will buy their credential at an utterly INSANE cost . . .  25% Jared Kushner.

In addition to tuition, at least Harvard got $2.5 million from Kushner's felon father.  Meanwhile, the spawn of a self-proclaimed billionaire got into Penn.  I suppose that Penn thought it might get a building, or at least an endowed professorship, but they got nothing but acute embarrassment.  They should have talked, beforehand, to some of the contractors that he stiffed.
Did Junior go to the real Penn or the Wharton knock off degree mill daddy did?

I've actually got some respect for Penn as the other Ivy with at least a passing acquaintance with American egalitarian ideals.  They are also one of the two Ivies (with Columbia) that unironically admits black people.

George64

Quote from: TrotskyDid Junior go to the real Penn or the Wharton knock off degree mill daddy did?

Junior and Barbie went to Wharton, the rarely-mentioned one was an Artsy, Eric went to Georgetown.

French Rage

Quote from: upprdeckIts not very good for any family in the middle class at most colleges.

Blatant generalization here, but given the extra equipment and such needed I would think hockey prospects would come from higher income families than, say, basketball or football, which might put them out of the extra assistance but below Ivy tuition being a drop in the bucket.
03/23/02: Maine 4, Harvard 3
03/28/03: BU 6, Harvard 4
03/26/04: Maine 5, Harvard 4
03/26/05: UNH 3, Harvard 2
03/25/06: Maine 6, Harvard 1

Dafatone

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Quote from: George64
Quote from: TrotskyThere will be two classes of students: kids who deserve to be here who come for free and rich assholes' short bus droppings who will buy their credential at an utterly INSANE cost . . .  25% Jared Kushner.

In addition to tuition, at least Harvard got $2.5 million from Kushner's felon father.  Meanwhile, the spawn of a self-proclaimed billionaire got into Penn.  I suppose that Penn thought it might get a building, or at least an endowed professorship, but they got nothing but acute embarrassment.  They should have talked, beforehand, to some of the contractors that he stiffed.
Did Junior go to the real Penn or the Wharton knock off degree mill daddy did?

I've actually got some respect for Penn as the other Ivy with at least a passing acquaintance with American egalitarian ideals.  They are also one of the two Ivies (with Columbia) that unironically admits black people.

If they don't have a hockey team, they don't count.

Robb

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Quote from: upprdeckI am always amazed at the value of the cars driving in the parking lots, compared to the lots where the employees park

We've always been SATs + Parents' Income = Admissions Score, same as the Feeble Four.  Hopefully we've been a little better what with the motto in English and the SUNY Ithaca working class hero land grant bullshit, but I met plenty of Fellow Kids as an undergrad from the best prep schools who couldn't find their ass with their nanny's two hands and a map.
Yep.  Nothing this kid from a public high school in East Tennessee loved more than setting the curve on a bunch of Choaties.  Small solace knowing that my lifetime earnings will be less than their trust funds, but I'll take what I can get.
Let's Go RED!

Trotsky

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Quote from: upprdeckI am always amazed at the value of the cars driving in the parking lots, compared to the lots where the employees park

We've always been SATs + Parents' Income = Admissions Score, same as the Feeble Four.  Hopefully we've been a little better what with the motto in English and the SUNY Ithaca working class hero land grant bullshit, but I met plenty of Fellow Kids as an undergrad from the best prep schools who couldn't find their ass with their nanny's two hands and a map.
Yep.  Nothing this kid from a public high school in East Tennessee loved more than setting the curve on a bunch of Choaties.  Small solace knowing that my lifetime earnings will be less than their trust funds, but I'll take what I can get.

1. Study hard.

2. Marry well.

osorojo

The academic decisions of universities [hopefully] rest upon the same criteria as do the athletic decisions of universities: identify the most gifted and promising athletes or scholars, recruit them, and lead them to succeed. No university ever went broke graduating too many exceptional athletes

Robb

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Quote from: upprdeckI am always amazed at the value of the cars driving in the parking lots, compared to the lots where the employees park

We've always been SATs + Parents' Income = Admissions Score, same as the Feeble Four.  Hopefully we've been a little better what with the motto in English and the SUNY Ithaca working class hero land grant bullshit, but I met plenty of Fellow Kids as an undergrad from the best prep schools who couldn't find their ass with their nanny's two hands and a map.
Yep.  Nothing this kid from a public high school in East Tennessee loved more than setting the curve on a bunch of Choaties.  Small solace knowing that my lifetime earnings will be less than their trust funds, but I'll take what I can get.

1. Study hard.

2. Marry well.
(Sorted chronologically, not by importance)
Let's Go RED!

Trotsky

Quote from: Robb1. Study hard.

2. Marry well.
(Sorted chronologically, not by importance)[/quote]

Correct.

osorojo