Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Briahna Joy Gray: The REAL Affirmative Action Scandal, Private Universities Cater To ELITES" video.

  1.  @m3ke68  Take a look at where the most powerful people in each branch of government went to school. Then see where CEOs of major companies studied, including the ones where the founders did not finish a Bachelor's. Higher ed is more stratified than ever. When I was a kid, a full-time summer job covered a full year's of in-state tuition everywhere: Texas, Michigan, Virginia, Wisconsin, Illinois, California. No exceptions. And a degree from any one of those schools wasn't quite at the level of the advantages Harvard/Yale/Princeton, etc., would give you, but it provided great opportunities. That's long over.
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  2. So then you agree the legacy and "$pecial development" pools are fundamentally wrong?
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  3.  @anonymous_5016  Where did I defend "affirmative action?" Where did we define it? Show me.
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  4. Private universities can use whatever metric they like, including legacies and parental contributions.
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  5.  @cocorna3282  Harvard recently stopped requiring SAT, and won't for the next 5 years. That was already a trend, starting in 2005 if not earlier. Forbes (which Harvard parents read) wrote about it.
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  6.  @drewskij2175  Texas stopped admitting the pinnacle of every high school class? I thought that was a worthy policy. Kids who make valedictorian (or close) anywhere should have admission to their top state university. Kids can't pick their high school. Anyway, her story should be reported.
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  7. What real candor looks like.
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  8. Learn statistics. Then come back and listen again. Sheesh.
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  9.  @davidromero3487  She didn't say most athletic scholarships go to whites. Go back and check. But since you didn't follow the college admissions scandal, you obviously missed the fact that the televised college sports covers very few of these students. There is soccer, lacrosse, track and field, the whole panoply women's sports (Title IX, remember?), etc., etc., etc. . . . These are not what you see on television. Read much? "Knucklehead."
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