[Alberta's Child]

So in your "world" students shouldn't be rewarded for academic excellence, they should be rewarded instead by the thickness of their parent's bankroll?

"Rewarded" in what sense? Rewarded with admission to a university -- a PRIVATE university?

That's a matter between the school and the prospective student. I have no interest in making a subjective value judgment about what constitutes a "reward" in that case.

These schools already lower their admission standards for many applicants. I really don't care if they lower them for ALL of them ... and I don't care if people figure out how to game the system to get admitted to these schools, either.

Look at the details of some of these stories. One actress paid $500,000 to get her daughter into a school where the cost of a four-year degree would have been almost $300,000. These people are morons. I would pay a bribe of two cents to get into a school at that cost.

[Alberta's Child]

Sorry ... I must correct the last item from that post:

I wouldn't pay a bribe of two cents to get into a school at that cost.