Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Why the **** Do You Trust Harvard?
Freddie deBoer Substack ^ | 18 Dec 2021 | Freddie deBoer

Posted on 12/20/2021 8:12:18 AM PST by Rummyfan

Here is what I want to say to you: at the end of this process, no matter how you change it, no matter how many statements the schools put out about diversity, no matter how many thumbs you put on all the scales to select for a certain kind of student, at the end of this process are self-serving institutions of limitless greed and an army of apparatchiks who are employed only to protect their interests. That’s it. You can’t make college admissions fair by getting rid of the SAT because colleges admissions can’t be “fair.” College admissions exist to serve the schools. Period. End of story. They always have, they always will. College admissions departments functioned as one big anti-Semitic conspiracy for decades because that was in the best interest of the institution. Guys who the schools know will never graduate but who run a 4.5 40 jump the line because admissions serves the institution. Absolute fucking dullards whose parents can pay - and listen, guys, it’s cute that you think legacies are somehow the extent of that dynamic, like they won’t let in the idiot son of a wealthy guy who didn’t go there - get in because admissions serves the institution. Some cornfed doofus from Wyoming with a so-so application gets in over a far more qualified kid from Connecticut because the marketing department gets to say they have students from 44 states in the incoming class instead of 43 that way, because admissions serves the institution. How do you people look at this world and conclude that the problem is the SAT?

(Excerpt) Read more at freddiedeboer.substack.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS:

1 posted on 12/20/2021 8:12:18 AM PST by Rummyfan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

Mr. DeBoer is quite a kook, but he’s very observant. That was a great rant.


2 posted on 12/20/2021 8:24:56 AM PST by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Tax-chick
A rant it is, but he makes some valid points.

All the obscenity made clear it is a leftist rant.

3 posted on 12/20/2021 8:48:50 AM PST by marktwain (Amazing people can read a persons entire personality and character from one photograph.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Rummyfan

Absolute fucking dullards....
~~~~

Don’t post that here.


4 posted on 12/20/2021 8:53:25 AM PST by nagant
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nagant

Really?

Someone that joined in 2017 tells someone that joined in 2002 what to post and what not to post?

For real?

For the record, I don’t approve of the profanity either, but that is Mr. DeBoer’s fault.


5 posted on 12/20/2021 9:02:52 AM PST by sauropod (Meanie Butt Daddy - No you can't)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: sauropod

Thanks for taking a positive stand for civility, turf thug.


6 posted on 12/20/2021 10:46:42 AM PST by nagant
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: marktwain

I agree, valid points, leftist language ... or just kook language.


7 posted on 12/20/2021 11:06:40 AM PST by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: nagant

Calling someone a turf thug isn’t very civil either.


8 posted on 12/20/2021 1:37:22 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: nagant

Whatever.


9 posted on 12/20/2021 2:10:25 PM PST by sauropod (Meanie Butt Daddy - No you can't)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson