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Harvard is more interested In filling the student body with rich and/or famous kids than kids with the most academic potential. Harvard has always been that way.
Not so. They need neither the fame nor the money as the oldest university in the nation and by far the best known.
They don't go on only SAT scores; there are hundreds of other colleges that do, but Harvard looks for the potential leaders of the future. Those leaders don't have to have rich parents, nor come from famous families.
Of course, Harvard never knows just who they admit will rise to prominence or not. Since they are all still kids, every admittance is a gamble on the future of sorts.
I have a friend I've known all my life who graduated from Harvard 2 years after GW Bush graduated. He was the second child of his family to graduate from the school. His older brother became a well-known and quite successful dentist, but my friend ended up taking over his father's sign business, and while he's well known locally, has never been exactly famous.
But he is still the smartest guy I know by a long shot. I once asked him why he didn't go into international affairs; he said that growing up alongside his Dad, working in his shop, was something he learned he loved more than anything his degree offered him.
He took care of his father for years after his mother died. The old man finally died peacefully at 90, after dementia robbed him of everything but the urge to draw. He happily spent his days at his shop drawing little doodles on paper scraps for years before he passed on. In the end, their roles reversed. He was the child and his son ran the shop.
Even with her money, I don't think it would be easy to do 3 hours of radio, 1 hour of television, both at specific times, do the prep for both, and do a quality job of raising three kids as a single mom.
It was so mean-spirited of her to go after a 17-year-old victim of a high school mass shooting. Good for him. He'll become much more admired and accomplished in his life than she ever will.
She gets paid a lot and is in one of the prime Fox News spots, get back to me when he even comes close to that level.
Why can't people be happy for other peoples success especially a kid? Bottom feeder Ingraham is a racist, homophobic clown like her other Fox News buddies Carlson and Hannity. They deserve no attention.
Neither does your post. I disagree with you so you are racist? Absolutely childish. Just like the little boy Hogg.
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