Pull yourself up by your bootstraps,they said.. Originally Posted by Prince Akeem Of Zamundauhh read the memo. that's only for poor people (blacks, whites, asians, mexicans...)
Is it that hard to get into USC? Originally Posted by dallasfanNo, not that hard if you’re reasonably bright. It’s harder than SMU, Baylor, TCU, but not as hard as Rice, NYU, Georgetown, Cal Berkeley, u. Chicago, Brown, UVa., etc. Median SAT is about 1400. That’s roughly top 9 percentile of SAT scores.
I'm neither surprised or dismayed at this continuing story. Rich people pay to advance themselves and their families and always have. The real issue here is that kids of celebs have paid for back door entry into college because their SAT scores weren't good enough to get in on their own merit. The real hypocrisy here is how athletes get into college based wholly on athletic ability rather than on academic merit. If you took the football and basketball teams and made them write their own SAT, how many could actually score enough to get in? It will never happen because basketball and football generate billions of dollars for the NCAA. College athletics is probably more corrupt than this entry scheme/scam that's in the headlines. Most millionaire athletes who went to college rarely finish degrees because most aren't smart enough. They got pushed through high school and college grades get fudged because every school relies on sports to generate revenues. The U.S. is the only country in the world where the highest paid people in the education system is sports coaches. But we never hear of investigations into the academic merits of college athletes. On the contrary there have been scandals where schools have covered up criminal activities of athletes to protect the financial interests of schools.