"In all fairness...it was a really big check"
How does anyone get into harvard ?
Pay the bill. Buy a wing. Renovate a building. The usual.
"In all fairness...it was a really big check"
You may have said that somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but really, what's the big surprise?
It doesn't matter what it is or what country it's in, money and power buy influence. If you want to go to a "prestigious" school like Harvard, you'll have to pay the man.
Maybe it's an eastern thing, because I'm from the West and went to university in the West, but who cares who goes to Harvard? I could give a hill of beans if Jared Kushner went to Harvard on his daddy's dime or got in with his great grades. Either way, who cares? Not I.
But I do think many of the problem we have in this country can be traced back to the people running the government who are products of these liberal, elitist, stuck-up, look-down-their-noses-at-everyone-else, we-know-better-than-you schools like, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, etc.