Speaking of multiple troll accounts....

My post from the thread that generated this one:

You don't need to feel so defensive @OSU. State school like OSU were created to give the second or third tier of society a sense of belonging, even though they might be better off going to trade school or just leaning how to change bedpans.

BTW, I've reviewed four clubs under the new peer-review system. I post reviews under a username that you didn't mention and cleared it with @Founder. So go fuck yourself.

Excellent work there realrandummorndougster/josh43/sven. You learned to C+P your comment from another topic and post it here. I'll put in a plug for you so Founder might consider giving you a participation trophy.

I'm not the defensive one. Your last sentence is just more evidence that your general mode of operation is to fling an insult when exposed.

Yes he was busted long ago.

Randumbmember quickly Climber to the top of tuscl’s ranking as #1 Faggit with his righteous posts, especially his political leanings. Fucked up.

Kind of chickenshit pussy thing to do calling a large state university 2nd and 3rd tier. This country is 100% fucked up right now and combined scotus and the oval office over the past 25+ years is 99.9% dumb fuck ivy leaguers.

^ It’s funny because we don’t agree very often, but I agree The Ivy’s are full of spoiled entitled legacy types, that for the most part can’t solve simple problems, you give me a lawyer that went to a less expensive school that had to pay his own way, he’ll do rings around those white shoe firms, the only advantage they have is money, and if you get a street fighter with adequate funding, he’ll win your case for you.

^One other thing that you can put in your pipe about the white shoe firms, they are usually hired for access to the halls of power and the old boy network that they are part of, for real legal work it’s the larger not so well connected firms that make the cases, and more often than not those elite firms hire litigators from outside the Ivies.

If I recall correctly, @SkiBirther, you had a lot of negative things to say about state school UC Berkeley which really is in the same class as the Ivy's. So make up your fucking mind. Also recall that your father went to Harvard law but that you...well... didn't. So explains your emotional posts about whether Michelle Obama is the best educated first lady (which was, of course, a thinly veiled rant about affirmative action). I might have some sympathy for your post if you weren't such a birther-bigot and often an irrational dipshit.

IRL I'm less of an elitist (or least go out of my way to hide it). In @OSU's case I like to push the academic elitism in his face since it triggers him and because he has a massive inferiority complex.

Richest guy in my family is a cousin who completed two years of junior college and started his own business. Lives with stars in Southern California. Truly rich and girls have flocked to him all his life. He's not the brightest guy, to be honest, but being rich doesn't necessarily correlate.

Ivy's are notorious for not being meritocracies and I posted this NY Times article earlier about Asian kids being locked out at Harvard even though they have clearly better credentials:

nytimes.com

To @Tx: yes I started as @Josh43 and you know that full well because of obscure shit I posted about the Fed under both accounts.

No, I'm not @RealDougster or @Sven. My best guess is @Jester, although not sure.

RandomMember - idk if things have changed in the past decade or so, but I remember in high school we watched this documentary (can't remember what it was called) about minorities being "locked out" as you say, from schools.

The documentary focused on two things:

1. the Asian issue you are talking about, and
2. historically black universities having lower admission standards for white applicants than for black applicants.

Many people were interviewed. I remember an Asian man who didn't get into Harvard although his GPA was above the Harvard average, his SAT was perfect (99.9 percentile), and his extracurriculars were stacked. He ultimately found out he did not get accepted because he was Asian.

The white people who were interviewed for the historically black universities admitted that they got in with lower admission standards; many of them had a C average GPA and got into the historically black universities instead of blacks with A averages. Enough of them admitted this to be true to show there was a genuine problem, which led to the historically black universities to finally change their admission standards (or at least most of them, as I recall).

^^^ Sounds like an interesting documentary.

You have to feel sorry for some of these Asian kids who take 10 AP classes, get 5s in all of them, have zero social life, get involved with extracurriculars, and get rejected for being Asian. But most affirmative action has a purpose and serves society overall. Trump's rolling back affirmative action guidelines set by Obama and the new supreme court nominee is most likely hostile to affirmative action.

Trump himself was no academic superstar. He could only get into Fordham out of high school, even though his daddy was filthy rich -- and being rich was almost a sure ticket into the ivys back then. Trump transferred to Penn his last two years.

Yeah, didn't Kushner only get into Harvard because his dad paid big money? If I recall correctly, he was far less qualified than his fellow Harvard students.

Just looked it up and yep. Kushner's GPA and SAT scores were below Harvard standards but his daddy pledged $2.5 million to Harvard and had a senator speak with the dean of admissions.

Totally a merit-based admission. Lol.

^ I had heard that 60% of the students at Harvard were legacy enrollment

I bet a great deal are legacy enrollment, but most have much better credentials than Kushner did. If they all had his high school grades and SAT scores, Harvard wouldn't be able to compete with other Ivy League schools.

^It stands to reason that students from legacy families, generally are in the upper income brackets, with plenty of money available to get them tutors, extra education, and all of The niceties necessary to bring their grades to a point where there is sufficient justification for their enrollment

I had dinner with two Harvard grads years ago who told me point blank that if your name wasn't on the building or you didn't come from a rough upbringing you probably weren't getting in.