[HWR_14]

For the hyperrich, setting aside 10 or 20 admissions for "idiots who bring new science buildings with them" seems to benefit literally everyone at the school.

[patmorgan23]

The Ivy's all have multi-billion dollar endowments. They should go without a single donor dollar for a generation and be fine And even expand.

[true_religion]

Sure but why stop a practice that is working so well already? It's just 10 slots out of 100s.

[MagnumOpus]

It's over 200 out of about 2000 at Harvard, plus another 200 for athletes... Though of course the bigger issue is that Harvard only has 2000 places for undergrad despite a $50bn endowment, in order to create some artificial scarcity.

[HWR_14]

200 people in each class at Harvard donated buildings to get in? That seems hard to believe.

[dragonwriter]

That “over 200” is for legacies, not building donators, right?