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Hard to find...Cohen and trump's goons tried to hide them
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Hard to find...Cohen and trump's goons tried to hide them
If you do not object to parents using their wealth to secure their kids' admission to universities, you essentially condone the practice of having certain kids beat their competitors by using to their advantage their family's wealth instead of using solely their intellect and performance. Is this meritocratic?
A "helicopter parent" is one hovers, one who is excessively focused on his or her child's education, activities, and/or social life. And "child" is important; I never thought I'd live to see the day when this became a thing at the college level. It is, though, with parents phoning profs to ask about grades and class performance when FERPA prevents such a conversation (and sometimes appearing out of nowhere at the prof's office) and also deans.
So while there are many mature students, including 15 and 16-year olds, and many more who are age-appropriate immature, there are also some who are cases of arrested development who are a burden to deal with.
From Psychology Today:
Only a few studies have examined the effects of helicopter parenting. It is a relatively new cultural phenomenon, at least on a large scale (there have always been overbearing parents, but they were a rarity, and we used to laugh at them). It takes time to realize that something fundamental in parenting has shifted and time for scientists to suspect that it may cause problems, and more time for them to pinpoint and define the elements of intrusive parenting so that they can then study its effects. That is just now happening. Leading the charge is Chris Segrin of the University of Arizona, along with Michelle Givertz of Cal State at Chico and Neil Montgomery of Keene State College.
...Now that there are validated criteria defining overparenting, other researchers can study its effects. In the meantime, the latest study by Chris Segrin and colleagues shows that overparenting young adults breeds narcissism and poor coping skiils. Helicopter Parenting—It's Worse Than You Think | Psychology Today
If they are "too hard" for you to find why don't you post us a link to Obama's grades. I'm sure they will be easy to find....Hard to find...Cohen and trump's goons tried to hide them
From "Actresses, prominent business owners charged in nationwide college admissions cheating scandal":
Dozens of people have been charged in a nationwide college admissions cheating and athletic recruitment scheme, federal officials announced Tuesday.
U.S. Attorney Andrew E. Lelling said 50 people have been charged in the alleged scheme, including 33 parents who “paid enormous sums” to guarantee their children’s admission into elite schools.
Prominent entertainers, business owners and college coaches are implicated in the scandal that involves boosting SAT scores and bribing college administrators, according to the criminal complaint.
Prosecutors say parents paid admissions consultant William Singer, of Newport Beach, Calif., $25 million from 2011 through Feb. 2019 to bribe coaches and administrators to label their children as recruited athletes to boost their chances of getting into schools.
According to information provided by FBI/DoJ officials in the press conference aired live on CNN, the parents, on average, paid between $250K and $400K for Singer's services. (I can't find the live coverage online, only an article.) The maximum sum spent was ~$6M.
The NY Post reports that one parent paid $500K to have "their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team — despite the fact that they did not participate in crew — thereby facilitating their admission to USC." Other parents paid to have an associate of Singer's to obtain a given SAT exam score.
What I find most astounding about this cabal of college entrance corruption is that it appears a fair quantity of the parents who participated in it spent sums that, were they done the way wealthy folks have for ages ensured their academically mediocre kids admission to prestigious institutions -- by making a generous donation -- they'd have spent about the same sum and not be facing prosecution.
I mean, really. If one's got half a million or more to "blow," donate it to help fund a teaching award, endow a chair or help renovate a wing or hallway or something. The school will admit one's child in return.
- I've been quite clear about the limits of that with which I can acquiesce. If you cannot, in crafting your hypothetical (of sorts) accurately paraphrase my words without discarding their connotation and denotation of the ideas they express, then please don't paraphrase them.
I carefully select my diction to aptly, accurately and completely communicate my thoughts. I don't appreciate your (or anyone else's) attempting to "spin" my remarks so they convey ideas I didn't express or imply; moreover, it's a waste of both our times for me to have to keep correcting your doing so. I don't need you to tell me what I think; I know what I think, and I'm not shy about sharing my thoughts.
- If the parents, [to matriculate their kids at a given school], in the right way do so, I don't have a problem with their using their wealth to secure their kids' admission. The way(s) the parents involved in the matter for which they've now been indicted was not among the right ways, and I don't condone the parents' having used such modes to get their kids admitted to the respective schools. (Post 108)
- I don't like that folks can donate a bundle and get their kid admitted, but I understand that a school isn't likely to snub someone who so spends their coin. Accordingly, I can acquiesce to the happenstance when it occurs. As you noted, at least such donors/parents (perhaps the students too) aren't trying to pretend their kids are "all that" and thus got admitted to "Posh U." (Post 42)
- I wouldn't be okay with bribery of any sort. Bribery is criminal; I don't condone criminal conduct.
The difference is that [the] "usual" way of doing things, if one feels one must, lacks the quid pro quo concomitant with bribery. One merely makes the donation and trusts that it's enough to get one's kid admitted. (Post 3)
In your long response, you did not answer my question: so, I will repeat it!
Originally Posted by pamak
If you do not object to parents using their wealth to secure their kids' admission to universities, you essentially condone the practice of having certain kids beat their competitors by using to their advantage their family's wealth instead of using solely their intellect and performance. Is this meritocratic?
Try this time to give a response on the point I challenge you...
Probably how Trump got his education. Mummy and daddy make sure richly rich boy gets a diploma. He has a degree in economics and does not appear to know diddle about it.
Your asking the same question informs me that over your head went the point of my initial response to it. You're damn right I didn't answer the question you posed. Had the point of my response not elided your notice, you'd know damn well why.
Trump doesn't really have an economics degree, but his degree does say "economics" on it. Click here to understand why I say that. That notwithstanding, you're correct that he is demonstrably bereft of even rudimentary comprehension of economics principles.
Well, as long as you are not willing to answer the question, I claim that you expose the weakness of your argument!
The question was polite and reasonable, so stop giving me the attitude that you are somehow offended
If you are, you have an attitude problem!
The last time I looked, legacies at some elite universities had higher GPAs than other students.
A study by two Princeton sociologists has found that students admitted to colleges primarily because of their legacy status are more likely to face academic difficulty than students admitted primarily because they are athletes or members of ethnic minorities.
Legacy students whose SAT scores are below the average scores of their peers earn consistently lower grade point averages in college—a phenomenon not experienced by minorities or athletes, according to the study.
Of the 3,478 profiles which responded to the legacy question, legacy profiles scored 1870 on the SAT versus 1943 for nonlegacy students.
The trend remained for students who were accepted into top 25 schools (as ranked by the US News & World Report), where legacy students scored 2133 versus 2156 for nonlegacy students.
I am telling you what I knew when I was in college.
The problem with your claim is it assumes that legacies have lower SATs.
Of the 3,478 profiles which responded to the legacy question, legacy profiles scored 1870 on the SAT versus 1943 for nonlegacy students.
OMG, that explains a lot.
Lol, okay so we going to start off with you pedalling back.
Alright, let's say you knew your everyone's GPA scores (highly unlikely but let's assume it is true) in your classes, and legacies were higher than non-legacies. How would that be reflective of anything other than your class? Let me guess. Let's say you knew the GPAs of every student that wasn't in your program, and you had enough to connections to know the GPAs of every other student in your university. How would you have access to the GPA scores of every other university in the US?
Is that where this conversation is going, TD? To you having access to the GPAs of every legacy student in America?
Don't be goofy.
Yikes. There is no assumption here:
Legacy students can get into college with a lower SAT score than everyone else - Business Insider
I appreciate the effort, TD - but when you make BS claims, they need some sort of evidence other than 'I know'. Your post started off with a blatant lie, one that at best could be supported by maybe a study, but a study showing slight SAT differences, with gigantic consequences on odds of admission.
Double down. I want you to.
You seem confused
and I used your study. It showed Legacies didn't do worse than other students. It showed legacies with lower SAT scores than others might have. That's a big DUH.
Nope, I'm fine - just trying to get you to admit that your perception isn't representative of anything. There isn't enough name dropping one can do to avoid simple studies.
If this had been your argument, we'd be discussing it. That's why I chose to discuss the very specific claim that at some point, when you looked, GPAs were higher for legacy students. They weren't because 30-40 years ago, nobody studied this stuff so as not to bother the imaginary world where legacies actually did better.
Your inability to come up with any sort of academic information to back up your claims is funny.
Do some name dropping when all else fails.
:lol:
Not playing this stupid game. I made my point, you cannot refute it
I literally showed you the following:
1) Reported legacy students didn't do significantly better in the GPA section than non-legacy, they do about the same or worse.
2) This trend remains in the top 25 schools in the country.
3) Being a legacy significantly improves your odds of joining an university regardless of your GPA (by factors of 2 to 15 in some cases)
How are you still pretending your claim wasn't debunked? Because you knew people in college?
Lol, predictable.
what year was that study based on?
Until you find contradictory evidence that amounts to more than claiming to not only know but also remember someone's GPA and legacy status in the 19......(60s?).... (70s?)... (80s?) and be able to compare it to hundreds of other people who never came into contact with you and were even less likely to tell you their GPA ....as well as literally thousands of others around the country who never met you... then your question will remain irrelevant.
There are no games here, TD.
You started talking, and what you're saying sounds really good, until one dives 1 inch beneath the surface and asks simple questions.
I am telling you what I knew when I was in college. BTW legacies almost always do better-in elite schools-then minorities. The problem with your claim is it assumes that legacies have lower SATs.
Legacy students whose SAT scores are below the average scores of their peers earn consistently lower grade point averages in college—a phenomenon not experienced by minorities or athletes, according to the study.
That assumes that legacies who were admitted all had lower scores. It doesn't talk about legacies who had average or above average SAT scores.
The study you cited confirmed that
The study did not, however, show that legacy admits tended to perform worse overall. The disparity applies only to those admitted with lower-than-average SAT scores.
At Harvard, SAT scores for Harvard legacy students are “virtually identical” to those of the rest of the student body, Harvard College Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said. He said that the admissions committee looks beyond SAT results in deciding whom to accept.
Red:
Well, whatever...you just do...
If the parents do so in the right way, I don't have a problem with their using their wealth to secure their kids' admission.
Then let me expand and answer the actual rhetorical question I used to expose the weakness of your position
Meritocracy | Definition of Meritocracy by Merriam-Webster
Definition of meritocracy
: a system in which the talented are chosen and moved ahead on the basis of their achievement
Based on the above definition, a system which selects students over others by taking in consideration the wealth of the students' parents is a system which is not based on meritocracy.
Thus, a person who says the things that you said
If the parents do so in the right way, I don't have a problem with their using their wealth to secure their kids' admission.
-- Xelor
is a person who does to have a problem with a system which is not based on meritocracy.