[Johny Joe Hold]

Step by step, the favorable points given to nonwhite college applicants are being eliminated. Admission based on merit is the fairest and best measure of a worthy student.

A part of the merit system is called "Legacy Admissions." This is when someone has graduated, sent money to the university for years and has a child that has applied. This child may have had poor grades in high school but is meritorious in his/her successful and well-connected parents. Many of out great Republican Party leaders got into Ivy League universities this way. A good example is George W. Bush.

Ending unfair racial preference is progress. Retaining legacy admissions will save our country.

Attention turns to legacy admissions after affirmative action ruling | The Hill

[WWJDnow]

Successful people have successful children. Why? Because they became successful because God favored them. Look at all of the blessings that Issac had in his life because God loved Abraham. Legacy admissions are therefore approved by Jesus. Who are we to question them?

[MitzaLizalor]

Am I correct in thinking that anyone actually making a significant contribution to the economy (and therefore to social order) must have had the ability to do so in the first place? Even if they were Chinese or Icelandic or for that matter New Zealanders? And by building a new wing for a university, or endowing a new faculty or something major like that, surely their own children could attend to study that subject?

Perhaps I'm mistaken—and I'm sure I'll be corrected if so—but this seems very public spirited to me, compared to doing exactly the same thing in one's back yard, building the facility, providing the equipment, employing a Dean and relevant professors/lecturers/readers & such, then not allowing anyone beyond one's own family to attend?

There are of course such "private colleges" here and there but do they foster civic responsibility? We are fortunate to have magnanimous individuals selflessly offering educational opportunities on a broader canvas and, lets face it, how is the alternative any different from outright communism. It isn't.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Originally Posted by WWJDnow

Successful people have successful children. Why? Because they became successful because God favored them. Look at all of the blessings that Issac had in his life because God loved Abraham. Legacy admissions are therefore approved by Jesus. Who are we to question them?

Look at the Trump children, millionaires everyone. If a college wants graduates like that it has use the merit system. All of them have merit.

Donald Jr. was admitted to the Wharton School where his father studied. He has four children and we can be certain they will attend Wharton and have successful careers in the Trump organization.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

There aren't enough jobs for all the people getting degrees now. If anything we should discourage them, not encourage them. This is the real world, not some theoretical liberal utopia. The ones who get the jobs are the ones who put in the effort to know the players - who vacationed with them as kids, perhaps, or interned at the same law firm, or have the same country club membership. Everyone else is wasting their time.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Originally Posted by Dr. Anthony J. Toole

The ones who get the jobs are the ones who put in the effort to know the players - who vacationed with them as kids, perhaps, or interned at the same law firm, or have the same country club membership. Everyone else is wasting their time.

The entire world can learn from the Trump and Walton families. Each has several children. Not one is on the welfare rolls. This lesson even applies to liberals. Warren Buffet and George Soros have grown children and none are on welfare.

Every kid on the East Coast should spend summers in the Hamptons. In the Middlewest its summers at lake beaches or country clubs. It's obvious God loves legacy.

[Dennis Lukes]

Hunter Biden is a nepo baby If there ever was one. He's like a Grand Theft Auto character come to life. And yet he mysteriously winds up on the executive boards of foreign corporations.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by Dennis Lukes

Hunter Biden is a nepo baby If there ever was one. He's like a Grand Theft Auto character come to life. And yet he mysteriously winds up on the executive boards of foreign corporations.

In Hunter's case, it is corruption but in general executive boards are an example of free market competition selecting the best possible talent. If it so happens that friends and relatives are well represented that is because there's a limited pool of the very top talent and they all end up in the same places. Except Hunter.

[Johny Joe Hold]

With this merit thing, our wealthy white friends need a voice in what constitutes merit. If one of our beautiful children needs to get into a prestigious university, is 18 but has not cracked a book, merit needs to allow entry for this kid. That's what legacy provides.

There was another great system but it seems to be used less and less because a famous mom went to prison for a short while. This was admission by the athletic coaches. Coaches could admit lots of freshmen who were not athletes in exchange for a big donations. This worked great and gave a chance for parents who were not legacy alumns. That merit system allowed students that otherwise had no chance.

[MitzaLizalor]

I didn't know what "nepo baby" is so thought I'll look that up with my coffee.
Unfortunately, the resulting information was so beyond anything our Pastors
would recommend that I dropped the device, hence this post.

ATTENTION

If searching what is nepo baby, do remove family members
particularly those of an impressionable, nervous or sensitive
disposition. One reason is because search results may imply
(in the mind of your family member) that the careers you've
planned or hoped for them are suddenly optional. And we're
alert to what comes next: so-called "religious indoctrination"
is repugned and sought to be stripped away, so that the son
of perdition can take over where, in his crazed hallucination,
Jesus left off. There's just one problem. Jesus has not given
up on anything and all the made-up conditions and new-age
shenanigans will not stymie His promised return Luke 21:28


II Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means for that
day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that
man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition

[WWJDnow]

I have one word for those who feel aggrieved because they are not the children of the elite and therefore cannot rely upon legacy admissions to achieve an education: PRAYER. You do not need to be a legacy to get into the college of your choice. All you need to do is to ask Jesus to help you.

If you are a good Christian, if your prayer is sincere, if your faith is strong enough, and--most important of all--if you have diligently followed the tithing plan that your pastors and deacons have set forth for you, God will get you in to any university you choose.

As Pastor Ezekiel is fond of saying, stop bellyaching and get down on your knees!

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by WWJDnow

I have one word for those who feel aggrieved because they are not the children of the elite and therefore cannot rely upon legacy admissions to achieve an education: PRAYER.

I would add, Brother DNow, that they should be prepared to take the long route to the top. We are not all early bloomers.

Some like myself had little interest in academics and frittered away my youth drinking and partying in exotic locations. It wasn't until I was 50 or so that a sense of responsibility kicked in and I took an online degree - the hardest 6 weeks of my life - and became CEO and Director of my father's business.

So those taking the long route, hang in there. Start at the bottom - sweep those floors the cleanest they've ever been, bring coffee as best as it can possibly be done, DON'T be jealous - Believe™ and with hard work you can make it. I just hope my story inspires one poor janitor to greatness, like me.

[MitzaLizalor]

Just for confirmation, and in relation to another thread, that wouldn't have been a liberal arts degree would it. You know, a Masters in Chakra Alignment sort of thing. My point had been that no Christian would want such a degree in the first place, would not pray for one and therefore not be admitted to such a College.

(Asking for a possible heathen poster to whom Christ may be calling.)

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by MitzaLizalor

Just for confirmation, and in relation to another thread, that wouldn't have been a liberal arts degree would it. You know, a Masters in Chakra Alignment sort of thing. My point had been that no Christian would want such a degree in the first place, would not pray for one and therefore not be admitted to such a College.

Confirmed, Sister. Tell your heathen poster friend that liberal arts will only reinforce feelings of inadequacy and inequality. A good conservative subject, like economics or hotel management, can paper over the symptoms for a while but eventually they will catch up with you. Best to max out the credit cards invest in tithing and spiritual salvation - it is said that a penny spent here on earth is repaid in blessings in Heaven. Not just in Heaven, but also at the Landover gift shop.

[MitzaLizalor]

Sadly the heathen poster has now been banned.

[its_faith]

Why yes, there isnt any better of a candidate for the promotion than my son in law.

[Johny Joe Hold]

The bad news just keeps coming in on this. Now Wesleyan College, a prestigious place in Connecticut, has ended legacy admissions. It is unAmerican to dump a practice that has served our elite families for generations.

Our founding fathers benefited from this practice and they intended for it to remain.

Top US college says it will end 'legacy' admissions (msn.com)

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Originally Posted by MitzaLizalor

Am I correct in thinking that anyone actually making a significant contribution to the economy (and therefore to social order) must have had the ability to do so in the first place? Even if they were Chinese or Icelandic or for that matter New Zealanders? And by building a new wing for a university, or endowing a new faculty or something major like that, surely their own children could attend to study that subject?

Likewise a library. My husband's family have automatic access to several colleges at both Oxford and Cambridge, thanks to intelligent investment by their ancestors many centuries ago. Obviously, strings were attached.

I look on it as very much the same thing as tithing: one pays now (or, in this case, one's ancestors have paid in the past) for future benefits.

[MitzaLizalor]

Generally one can walk into a library and read anything, other than certain volumes of great age, only needing a card to take things home. Although that would not apply to a private library. Cambridge is quite pleasant but they do do some unpleasant research into demonic possession and run public presentations for which you'd usually pay; even if you didn't you could still turn up and talk to people on the topics but Jesus already explained how to handle malevolent spirits so there even less room for discussion than there is for research.

Oxford has private colleges doesn't it? You build it, fund it, and for the next several centuries (so far) your children can go there and get something to hang on their wall? I don't see why that should stop but if it did they'd just build a new facility in their yard, by the game reserve perhaps, employ tutors and send their collective progeny there.

Edinburgh too was OK, apart from the research I've already mentioned, but it is rather cold there. Ullapool is much better but they don't have a University: anyway, at least Edinburgh is warmer that Svalbard.

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