Comments on: Lawsuit over Harvard admissions has CA overtones

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 03:16:53 +0000

In reply to Rex the Wonder Dog!. Teddy, How bout that Poodle? Shocked. Had no idea they can read and write in Randsburg!

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 17:36:06 +0000

In reply to Bill Gore. Most people don't know what I am about to tell everyone here, but because I have relatives that have used "admissions coaches/advisors" (to the tune of tens of thousands of $$$ in costs) for applying to elite colleges I have inside info on buying your way into elite colleges. Well, any college. This admissions coach said he could get ANYONE into ANY college in the United States, including all the Ivy League schools, with an "athletic scholarship sponsorship" of $125K. He claimed a one time payment of $125K in the form of an athletic scholarship endowment (the school uses it for athletes, not the donor) would open ANY college door, including Harvard. I also know a very smart UCLA graduate that worked on campus for a well know UCLA Professor assisting in his research and she had applied to the UCLA Law School and was denied, so this well known Professor asked her if she wanted him to "pull some strings" so she would be admitted. She said no, not unless it was on her own, but he could have manipulated the admissions so she could have been admitted. True stories, both.

By: Bill Gore

Bill Gore — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 15:07:09 +0000

In reply to Rex the Wonder Dog!.

I think the bar has gotten pretty high for legacy brats at Almighty Harvard. There has to be at least one bench in Harvard Yard AND a named building for an UTTER MORON like dubyah to get in. When that idiot first gained national prominence I would cringe at his endless stream of malaprops and ‘lazy-isms’, then I started laughing. It was clear as a bell: the ‘meritocracy’ of the ivies is total BS..a sham…actually kinda funny in a twisted way…

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 05:46:01 +0000

While Harvard is a private institution, it receives tens of millions of dollars in federal funding with strings attached, making it vulnerable to lawsuits over admissions.
Harvard dies NOT need ANY $$ from the federal government. They have tons of rich spoiled “legacy” brats that pay full freight, like George W. Bush. And Harvard pays full freight-for ALL expenses-for low-moderate income students out of their $33 BILLION, richest in the nation, endowment fund. If Harvard wanted to they could pay the entire cost of their entire undergrad and grad student body )from of the interest alone) out of their endowment fund.

By: Bill Gore

Bill Gore — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 22:35:12 +0000

The real Horror of Harvard is the idea that somehow your grade point average when you are 12-16 years of age qualifies you for an institution that, in our inbred age, has become defacto a ticket to elite status. We waste real problem-solving human potential in the USA with the same gusto as the old Soviet Union. Also, we need to recognize that asian cultural mores impart a distinct advantage to students in the western educational paradigm, which is centered around the memorization and creative recitation of facts. Ivy leagers tend to be pretty good conversationalists and networkers, but pretty bad at designing/building/improving.

By: Richard Rider

Richard Rider — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 18:45:12 +0000

It’s a common misconception that affirmative action primarily harms whites. It does harm whites, but not NEARLY as much as it harms Asians.

Damned Asians have too good a work ethic. And they study too much. Hence the government butcher must put his thumb on the scales of justice to “balance things out.”

Disgusting, but that’s the policy — if not the admitted attitude. A lower qualified black student from a $100+K family has a much better chance of admission to many colleges than a highly qualified Asian from a $30,000 family.

Asians are the neglected CA voting block too long ignored by the GOP. Only recently has the state and local GOP’s thinking on Asians begun to change.