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Titel
College admissions scandal: FT readers respond
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  • FT.com, 2019-03-20
Ort / Verlag
London: The Financial Times Limited
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
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  • The subject of the wealthy paying for access to education was laid bare by the revelations in the US college admissionsscandaland drew many Financial Times reader responses, both as parents and graduates The FBI has charged 50 people for a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme in which parents paid to help their children cheat the system to get them a spot at Stanford, Georgetown, Yale and other big-name universities across the US. Jake in Seoul An Ivy League education isn’t worth it To me, as a graduate of an elite prep school, Ivy college and Ivy business school, I think the diploma matters less and less in the US. Sure, classmates, networking and a bit of cache can matter a bit….[but] the sun does not rise and fall on a Harvard MBA. [...]perhaps being knocked back from an elite school is the sort of life shaping disappointment that puts some fire in your belly . . Success is everywhere — Grande In the real United States with the colleges that real people go to, I've been noticing that admissions coaching — and the belief that you'll be a failure if you don't get into the right school — has been imposing unnecessary stress on kids and giving them bizarre, calculating, mercenary behaviour.
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Englisch
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