Yes, Legacy folks usually get in to the college of their choice...if they've got the money. The Ivys today are $40-50,000 per year for tuition....
Obama probably had some help....maybe quite a bit of help. The tuitions today for most colleges are a scandal! Pretty soon, video presentations, made by the best and brightest minds in the world, will be done, at a fraction of the cost.
Ir is especially bothersome if the professor is not in the classroom, but rather has a TA teaching the class that the students and their parents are paying thousands to rather than the actual professor.
If a family consists of 4 kids, all of whom are bright, but their parents make only $100,000-300,000 grand a year....can the kids go to one of these schools? Nope!
They are "too rich" to get most scholarships, so unless they are a TOP student, or super rich, or too poor, or a legacy, or are a minority, or a student from a foreign land....our own US kids can't go. How many families do you know that can afford to pay $40-50k each year for as many as 2-3 kids per year, PLUS living expenses, and PLUS books....etc for each kids....PLUS continue to pay all the daily expenses of running a home and a family.
Not too many. |
