Posted on 04/12/2015 1:06:21 PM PDT by Steelfish
Private Jets And Cushy Dorms: Colleges Indulge The 1% As Inequality Deepens Forget your father’s station wagon – some students spend $14,000 on ‘application boot camp’ before flying between luxurious campuses college graduation 12 April 2015
For college seniors, spring brings college acceptance letters – and financial aid packages, full of forms to fill out. For college juniors, it’s the season to visit those institutions they dream of attending 18 months from now, to talk to admissions officials and tour the campuses.
Of course, for those lucky enough to be in the top 1%, the whole process will be infinitely easier.
Even the endless process of visiting one campus after another – an arduous ritual in many families – is turned into a smooth process for those able to write a check for the equivalent of a year’s tuition at some top-notch colleges. Magellan Jets is offering 1% families a special college tour package: 10 Hour Jet Cards for $43,500, entitling buyers not only to 10 hours of private jet time but to the help of the company’s logistics team to organize a customized itinerary and arrange car service at your destinations. (Those car trips will include guided tours of the local town, if you’ve got the time.)
Once you’ve finished a visit, the company will leave notepads at your seat for you to jot down your thoughts – and then condense the fruits of all those notations in a summarized overview of your visits for you. Oh, and if you’re interested in athletics, Magellan promises to arrange a meet and greet “with high profile alumni”.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
On the horizon—a student loan financial crisis. Government “solution,” forgive most student loans. Result—free college for everyone, unless you are white, Jewish, or Asian. End result—more college graduates with increasingly worthless degrees.
There, fixed it.
It’s not as if Magellan is discounting their services.
$4,300 an hour is what they charge anyway.
But, clever partnership between 1% services and college.
They act as a the travel agent but, that is what they do anyway.
I’ve flown private on NetJets and they pretty much take care of everything. Drive my car right up to the jet, they take my luggage, they provide restaurant or spa quality food on board, snacks by Dean & DeLuca, great top shelf liquor, playing card with their logo, transportation at the distant end, doggie care on board and insist the dogs roam freely in the cabin and a lot more.
Think of it as concierge services.
This wreaks as if it is Union misinformation. There has always been extreme wealth in this nation. I would hate to live here if there weren't. We are free to develop as our talents allow. Long live that freedom, and respect for those who have already attained what we would like to.
Another MSM piece fanning the flames of Class Warfare.
If you think the 1%’ers in this country are your friends, you may want to take a look around. They are the ones that own this government — it is just another asset for them. Every current pol in DC and most of the ones in your statehouse are there because one or more 1%’er paid the job application fee on the paid staff member’s behalf.
Frankly, I am getting sick of being on of the 65% in the middle that is expected to pay taxes to keep the bottom 30% pacified enough to let the top 5% keep accumulating. If its class warfare that’s wanted, well, I’ll decline that.
But don’t think that the people writing your tax codes to make sure they keep what they get while getting more, while you MAYBE get close enough to sniff a few luxuries because you fork over half of what you make, are your buddies.
There is no elitism like academic elitism.
This is exactly why we NEED SAT and ACT scores to count for a large part of the admission process. My kids’ scores were so much better than the scions of the East (like Biden’s and Kennedy’s) that they got into elite schools despite being from rural Oklahoma with no connections whatsoever.
Once objective merit is downplayed, you can be sure that the scales will be weighted even more heavily against good kids from the middle class.
Oldplayer
Hmmm?
Objective merit has always been downplayed for legacy students and 1% kids.
Always.
That strikes me as targeted toward that part of the One Percent where, as Gordon Gekko put it, the fool and his money were lucky enough to get together in the first place.
The New England colonies started with investors, to pay for the ship’s voyage. The Massachusetts Bay Company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony
People settled in New England, for both religious freedom, and economic opportunity.
Virginia likewise, was an early example of economic adventure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Company
These people from Europe during our colonial period, were not unlike those who set off Westward across the continent, to settle, farm or practice a trade or profession, etc.
Risk/reward. Our ancestors left behind in Europe (and some other places), our less courageous and less adventuresome family members.
Adventure, risk and hard work were built into our heritage. It has been diluted by handouts, “gibmedats,” and bleeding heart liberal schemes.
Standardized testing will always be downplayed by colleges because they would end up 100% white & Asian. Same for civil service testing & such; affirmative action exists because our government can no longer deny that there is a deficiency of some sort in certain groups.
While our government spouts nonsense about “equality”, certain ethnic/gender groups are treated as mentally disabled...
Funny enough, I am less aggravated by a poor minority or poor white kid taking the place of my children than I am with some elite snot nosed kid. Oh, well.
Oldplayer
Unfortunately, the poor minority kid is likely to have a below average SAT/GRE, while the elite snot nosed kid is likely to have a slightly above average SAT/GRE. A lot of poor white kids with well above average GRE’s are going to get skipped over for fellowships while the snot nosed kid is going to get his.
Sounds awesome.
I think having a private jet, or at least access when you want one, is really what separates the shooters from the peons.
If they were elite schools from the east then your kids benefitted from ‘affirmative geography’. Schools there just don’t want to become preppy graduate schools.
I don’t want either of them taking the place of my children if they don’t deserve it. What message do you think it sends to those better-qualified applicants who are rejected?
I agree. Why do you think I brought it up?
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