[Mrs. Don-o]

Way back in about 1972 I heard this from the very mouth of a College Admissions officer in New Mexico. He recruited Native Americans for Harvard and other elite schools and made a huge amount of money doing it. (I don't know if the payoffs were legal or under-the-table.)

He knew his "protegees" were miserable and flunking out after a semester or two, but he actually didn't care because his obscene financial rewards were based on their personal pain and academic failure.

What a pig he was. I rarely hate people, but I hate him even now.

[poconopundit]

He knew his “protegees” were miserable and flunking out after a semester or two, but he actually didn’t care because his obscene financial rewards were based on their personal pain and academic failure.

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Wow, that’s quite a practice. So was hiring Native Americans a way to fulfill a first year quota or something?