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by Rotten194 2158 days ago
Maybe the universities could start offering to give rich people's kids automatic 4.0s, too, if they donate twice as much. Sure it undermines the system and acts as an insidious poison into the idea of meritocracy, but think of how many scholarships it could pay for!
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This already happens:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-16/qatar-pr...

https://theunionjournal.com/qatar-prince-awarded-usc-masters...

It's a shame how easily the reputation of the US higher education is being ruined. If an entity that already has billions of dollars in endowments can be corrupted, what chance does society have?