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Marc Andreessen: Smart, poor white kids can no longer get into good universities

https://x.com/AmOptimistShow/status/1943758894263660670
Metal nibblets
  07/13/25
Marc Andreessen: if you're the parents of a smart kid where ...
Metal nibblets
  07/13/25
"Marc: 70% or whatever it is." So he's a dumbfu...
Histrionic toilet seat
  07/14/25
straight white Christian males are vastly under represented ...
Submissive bawdyhouse
  07/13/25
I wonder what "tribe" of people are vastly overrep...
underhanded forum
  07/13/25
If you’re talking about the Jews it’s definitely...
Trip roommate
  07/13/25
Several Jews were murdered at Harvard in orgiastic antisemit...
Histrionic toilet seat
  07/14/25
Jewish enrollment across the Ivies have dropped sharply in t...
Duck-like stage masturbator
  07/13/25
CR Christians should honestly check Jew on the box
Mind-boggling naked athletic conference parlour
  07/13/25
Trump should force Harvard to keep international students be...
Metal nibblets
  07/13/25
Doesn’t this just mean that there are no good universi...
titillating dark love of her life weed whacker
  07/13/25
Yeah basically
tripping azn son of senegal
  07/13/25
“ultimately they are just the sum of the people in the...
Histrionic toilet seat
  07/14/25
https://x.com/GoySuperstar/status/1944406768316203009 It'...
Startling Crystalline Church Twinkling Uncleanness
  07/13/25
Jewish power is the real problem
Metal nibblets
  07/13/25
We can hate Jews and Indians. Our hearts have the capacity.
doobsian big-titted stain boistinker
  07/13/25
Lonsdale is not the right guy In 2023, Lonsdale, writer B...
Metal nibblets
  07/13/25
This is where everything goes off the rails. Everybody onlin...
transparent twisted selfie
  07/13/25
yeah i agree, we need to remove all indians. so true
Startling Crystalline Church Twinkling Uncleanness
  07/13/25
"let's get rid of the genius browns to help the mediocr...
Boyish cruise ship scourge upon the earth
  07/13/25
This one hit home huh
doobsian big-titted stain boistinker
  07/13/25
Haha whoa you're definitely not going to get called out as J...
Startling Crystalline Church Twinkling Uncleanness
  07/13/25
“genius browns” 😂😂😂😂
glassy den
  07/13/25
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Violent karate hospital
  07/13/25
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flatulent kitchen genital piercing
  07/13/25
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tripping azn son of senegal
  07/13/25
I mean, that’s really all there is to say about it
Cobalt step-uncle's house
  07/13/25
Why do the "genius browns" need to be spotted 500 ...
odious greedy incel principal's office
  07/13/25
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flatulent kitchen genital piercing
  07/13/25
Why are all the countries where the 'genius browns" com...
Violent karate hospital
  07/13/25
...
flatulent kitchen genital piercing
  07/13/25
Non-white here. Because mediocre whites have more entitl...
talking wine university
  07/13/25
You’re a jew
tripping azn son of senegal
  07/13/25
haha Brian Uecker of My Poasting Career! So witty 👍👍
talking wine university
  07/13/25
enjoy Kumon
tripping azn son of senegal
  07/13/25
haha wow! The fun never stops with this guy!
talking wine university
  07/13/25
at least you hate being a jew 🤷🏻‍♂️
tripping azn son of senegal
  07/13/25
Lmao!!!!!!
talking wine university
  07/13/25
go back to Mumbai
Embarrassed to the bone thriller home corn cake
  07/13/25
Cr
Histrionic toilet seat
  07/14/25
Harvard now has this financial aid policy where if you're ac...
Lavender violent gay wizard
  07/13/25
Since the flagship state Us are getting all the smartest whi...
Histrionic toilet seat
  07/14/25
obviously true but its amazing these people still think harv...
olive voyeur
  07/13/25
he's right and i appreciate him for being the least insane/m...
fragrant misunderstood abode brethren
  07/13/25
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milky casino turdskin
  07/14/25
The top universities should all increase their enrollments a...
exhilarant haunting center tank
  07/14/25
They need to add more weight to extracurriculars and get all...
fragrant misunderstood abode brethren
  07/14/25
ECs were always bullshit except for the absolute best and mo...
exhilarant haunting center tank
  07/14/25
Bro actually sitting down and working for a non-profit and l...
fragrant misunderstood abode brethren
  07/14/25
Given how rich and exclusive the median Harvard admit is, si...
Obsidian stock car
  07/14/25
talking about the lesser colleges but yes that works just as...
fragrant misunderstood abode brethren
  07/14/25
Right the elites of this country are all post scarcity and w...
Obsidian stock car
  07/14/25
“This should be a meritocracy!,” the Boomer scre...
Histrionic toilet seat
  07/14/25
The real problem with ivies are nepos. DEI is a drop in the ...
Obsidian stock car
  07/14/25
Interesting poast that you copied and pasted from Reddit. D...
milky casino turdskin
  07/14/25
U seem extremely butt hurt
Obsidian stock car
  07/14/25
lol at the nonstop seething of faggots who grew up poor
Vermilion Confused Piazza
  07/14/25
I grew up in what is now a $1.5 million dollar home. Not sur...
Obsidian stock car
  07/14/25
Harvard is only 14% legacy and it seems obvious they almost ...
contagious narrow-minded quadroon
  07/14/25
OK now do non legacy but their parents work for Goldman Sach...
Obsidian stock car
  07/14/25
I can't remember who proposed it - but it seems to me the be...
contagious narrow-minded quadroon
  07/14/25
That would defeat the entire purpose of perpetuating the ent...
Obsidian stock car
  07/14/25
Interesting
Histrionic toilet seat
  07/14/25
Increase the difficulty of the SAT to what it was back in th...
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:32 PM
Author: Metal nibblets

https://x.com/AmOptimistShow/status/1943758894263660670

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098344)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:32 PM
Author: Metal nibblets

Marc Andreessen: if you're the parents of a smart kid where I grew up [rural Wisconsin] and you think you're going to get them into a top university in this country, you're fooling yourself...

What level of untapped talent exists in this country that a combination of DEI and immigration have basically cut out of the loop for the last 50 years?

Marc: Nobody wants to talk about, but I've started to talk about the intersection of DEI and immigration that has really warped our perceptions on high skilled immigration over the last 50 years.

You look at the foreign enrollment rates at the top universities, which went from 2 or 3 or 4 percent 50 years ago or whatever to 27% or 30% or 50%...

Joe: Columbia's over half.

Marc: 70% or whatever it is. And so there's been this massive transformation in who gets educated. And then there's been this massive transformation of who gets admitted through affirmative action, as we now know it, DEI.

This goes straight to the political divide in the country, which is, if you're parents of a kid where I grew up [rural Wisconsin] and you've got a smart kid and you think you're going to get them into, you know, a top university in this country, like you're fooling yourself.

There is this really fundamental question which is, what level of untapped talent exists in this country that a combination of DEI and immigration have basically cut out of the loop for the last 50 years?

And how long can we have this story to everybody in the Midwest and in the South that says, sorry, because of historical oppression, your kids are SOL.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098348)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:27 AM
Author: Histrionic toilet seat

"Marc: 70% or whatever it is."

So he's a dumbfuck that doesn't know anything, and wants to share his thoughts about the situation?

Someone send him the login info for one of their alts pls. He would REALLY like it here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099403)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:34 PM
Author: Submissive bawdyhouse

straight white Christian males are vastly under represented at Harvard. and if you look at them who come from outside the DC-NYC-Boston corridor they are nearly non-existent.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098355)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:35 PM
Author: underhanded forum

I wonder what "tribe" of people are vastly overrepresented at Harvard? It's definitely not the one Trump cucks to the hardest.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098357)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:52 PM
Author: Trip roommate

If you’re talking about the Jews it’s definitely not them. As we have seen, they have been experiencing horrible antisemitism at Harvard since October Seventh.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098439)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:06 AM
Author: Histrionic toilet seat

Several Jews were murdered at Harvard in orgiastic antisemitic violence iirc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099369)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 6:18 PM
Author: Duck-like stage masturbator

Jewish enrollment across the Ivies have dropped sharply in the last 15 years. Only Brown is the exception. I know you anti semites blame everything on Jews but give it a break. It's the white descendants of Unitarians who are behind most of these demographic changes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098520)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:36 PM
Author: Mind-boggling naked athletic conference parlour

CR

Christians should honestly check Jew on the box

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098360)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:43 PM
Author: Metal nibblets

Trump should force Harvard to keep international students below 10% (including graduate programs) as part of the terms of surrender.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098387)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:34 PM
Author: titillating dark love of her life weed whacker

Doesn’t this just mean that there are no good universities? Cuz ultimately they are just the sum of the people in them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098356)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:41 PM
Author: tripping azn son of senegal

Yeah basically

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098378)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:09 AM
Author: Histrionic toilet seat

“ultimately they are just the sum of the people in them”

Exactly. Why do you think University of Utah and North Dakota State have outperformed the “Ivies” in every objective metric since 2018? Its because they’re majority white.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099372)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:48 PM
Author: Startling Crystalline Church Twinkling Uncleanness

https://x.com/GoySuperstar/status/1944406768316203009

It's cool that he's talking about this publicly. But if you're a billionaire who is set for life, and genuinely trying to solve this problem, you can do a lot more than bringing up what already happened. The past is the past, we can't change it

You can call out the people who are currently the problem: Indians. Our enemies who are displacing white Americans in high-skill jobs that are critical to the national interest are not some kind of un-nameable abstraction. We know who they are. They're Indians

Andreesen and others need to be calling out the Indian problem explicitly and taking action against them. Everyone in this country hates Indians and wants them gone. This is not a remotely controversial or dangerous position to take

The first public figure who explicitly names and calls to remove Indians will become overwhelmingly popular. It's crown-in-the-gutter territory. It's in the self-interest of an ambitious person and it's also the right thing to do

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098416)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:49 PM
Author: Metal nibblets

Jewish power is the real problem

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098423)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:55 PM
Author: doobsian big-titted stain boistinker

We can hate Jews and Indians. Our hearts have the capacity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098445)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 6:02 PM
Author: Metal nibblets

Lonsdale is not the right guy

In 2023, Lonsdale, writer Bari Weiss, and others co-founded the University of Austin. Lonsdale and his collaborators described the school as dedicated to freedom of thought and discussion, and criticized academia for treating faculty "like thought criminals" and suppressing open inquiry among students.[38][39]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098478)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 11:07 PM
Author: transparent twisted selfie

This is where everything goes off the rails. Everybody online wants to be extremist and get attention, but the solution is a moderate position. No need to hate Indians or denigrate immigrants. We live in the US and the US government sends billions to these universities, and the universities should serve the interests of US citizens, not globalist lib or corporatist interests. If that means fewer Indian and Chinese students, so be it. We can continue to love and respect them from across the ocean.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099218)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 11:09 PM
Author: Startling Crystalline Church Twinkling Uncleanness

yeah i agree, we need to remove all indians. so true

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099222)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 6:11 PM
Author: Boyish cruise ship scourge upon the earth

"let's get rid of the genius browns to help the mediocre whites, instead of getting rid of the loser rich whites to help the mediocre whites" screeched the pedophile billionaire

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098508)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 6:16 PM
Author: doobsian big-titted stain boistinker

This one hit home huh

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098515)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 6:16 PM
Author: Startling Crystalline Church Twinkling Uncleanness

Haha whoa you're definitely not going to get called out as Jewish for this hot take, Fellow White American!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098516)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 6:22 PM
Author: glassy den

“genius browns” 😂😂😂😂

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098530)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:46 PM
Author: Violent karate hospital



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098677)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: flatulent kitchen genital piercing



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098685)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:26 PM
Author: tripping azn son of senegal



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098774)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 9:10 PM
Author: Cobalt step-uncle's house

I mean, that’s really all there is to say about it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098927)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 6:31 PM
Author: odious greedy incel principal's office

Why do the "genius browns" need to be spotted 500 points on their SAT tests? Also, why is it that smart white males get pushed out by this, but not smart Jewish males?

Makes you think!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098549)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: flatulent kitchen genital piercing



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098687)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:46 PM
Author: Violent karate hospital

Why are all the countries where the 'genius browns" come from total shitholes?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098679)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: flatulent kitchen genital piercing



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098690)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:53 PM
Author: talking wine university

Non-white here.

Because mediocre whites have more entitlement to this country than foreigners.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098689)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:27 PM
Author: tripping azn son of senegal

You’re a jew

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49098776)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 11:07 PM
Author: talking wine university

haha Brian Uecker of My Poasting Career! So witty 👍👍

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099217)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 11:21 PM
Author: tripping azn son of senegal

enjoy Kumon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099243)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 11:36 PM
Author: talking wine university

haha wow! The fun never stops with this guy!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099287)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 11:38 PM
Author: tripping azn son of senegal

at least you hate being a jew 🤷🏻‍♂️

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099296)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 11:50 PM
Author: talking wine university

Lmao!!!!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099328)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 11:52 PM
Author: Embarrassed to the bone thriller home corn cake

go back to Mumbai

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099330)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:10 AM
Author: Histrionic toilet seat

Cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099373)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 10:54 PM
Author: Lavender violent gay wizard

Harvard now has this financial aid policy where if you're actually poor you get an auto free ride there. The natural impact of this is that they significantly prefer foreign students which get 0 financial aid automatically to poor anyone. Minorities get a bump due to DEI, but poor white people? Ha. And for people just above the minimum income to get the full ride schools like HYP simply aren't worth it over flagship state Us, especially in the South where they cost almost nothing in-state.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099200)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:12 AM
Author: Histrionic toilet seat

Since the flagship state Us are getting all the smartest white kids now, it’s only a matter of time until they supplant Harvard, cr?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099377)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 11:15 PM
Author: olive voyeur

obviously true but its amazing these people still think harvard is going to fix someones problems at this point.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099232)



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Date: July 13th, 2025 11:17 PM
Author: fragrant misunderstood abode brethren

he's right and i appreciate him for being the least insane/most results focused of the tech billionaires in politics

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099234)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:09 AM
Author: milky casino turdskin



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099371)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:02 AM
Author: exhilarant haunting center tank

The top universities should all increase their enrollments and enforce strict meritocratic admissions standards with a lottery. Problem solved

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099357)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:03 AM
Author: fragrant misunderstood abode brethren

They need to add more weight to extracurriculars and get all of the nepotistic "minorities" off of the admissions boards

Superstudy asians are as cancerous as unqualified DEI minorities as far as creating an ideal campus environment goes. Universities are far more than grades and metrics; they're about the total growth and flourishment of their charges and wards

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099361)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:18 AM
Author: exhilarant haunting center tank

ECs were always bullshit except for the absolute best and most competitive athletes. Doing community service or starting some bullshit startup was always just kids playing make believe with a ton of unverifiable or just boring unremarkable claims on their application. Activities should only matter if the school is recruiting a kid to play sports or they actually accomplished something notable that adds to the prestige of the school (ex: wrote a NYT bestseller, acted on a popular TV show, won an Olympic medal, etc)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099387)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:25 AM
Author: fragrant misunderstood abode brethren

Bro actually sitting down and working for a non-profit and learning how it works/how it interacts with the community is one of the most enriching things a young college-bound man or woman can do

I agree that just shuffling around doing busy-work isn't ideal but the potential upsides are immense and most importantly it shows an inclination to civic virtue (something that was a pillar of the collegiate mission in prior times). Colleges are not supposed to be raising spoiled little consumer-knights of Capital, business degree mercenary ragazzi, they are supposed to be cultivating the virtues and values that produce the ideal citizen (and, in some cases, man before God) within their pupils

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099399)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:32 AM
Author: Obsidian stock car

Given how rich and exclusive the median Harvard admit is, sitting around giving money away and forming charities will be all they'll be doing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099422)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:34 AM
Author: fragrant misunderstood abode brethren

talking about the lesser colleges but yes that works just as well

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099428)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:36 AM
Author: Obsidian stock car

Right the elites of this country are all post scarcity and will never work a day in their lives. All the more reason coveted spots ought to go to them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099436)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:13 AM
Author: Histrionic toilet seat

“This should be a meritocracy!,” the Boomer screeched, “a white meritocracy!”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099378)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:21 AM
Author: Obsidian stock car

The real problem with ivies are nepos. DEI is a drop in the bucket. It's legacy admits that are ruining everything.

And the main reason schools fight this so much is that prestige and rankings are tied to how exclusive and rich the student body is. There is no academic difference between Harvard and a directional school. But the main reason businesses and institutions prefer a HYP grad is because of prestige. It's the idea that it's good school. And that idea comes from history, research/achievements, influence, and exclusivity. Everyone knows that Ivies pick students based on how rich and famous their parents are. The entire point of the institution is to perpetuate the elite class. So yeah, they're not letting randos in the door in the same way that they aren't letting influencers into the co-op or brown people into the South Hampton Bathing Corp.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099391)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:24 AM
Author: milky casino turdskin

Interesting poast that you copied and pasted from Reddit. Didn't know Redditors knew what the Southampton Bathing Corp was.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099396)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:26 AM
Author: Obsidian stock car

U seem extremely butt hurt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099401)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:32 AM
Author: Vermilion Confused Piazza

lol at the nonstop seething of faggots who grew up poor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099419)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:33 AM
Author: Obsidian stock car

I grew up in what is now a $1.5 million dollar home. Not sure if that's rich but it wasn't poor.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099425)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:34 AM
Author: contagious narrow-minded quadroon

Harvard is only 14% legacy and it seems obvious they almost all meet the academic standards.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099427)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:35 AM
Author: Obsidian stock car

OK now do non legacy but their parents work for Goldman Sachs. There is a ton of scholarship on this. Or their parents are sultans of something somewhere. It's all nepo even if not legacy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099432)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:38 AM
Author: contagious narrow-minded quadroon

I can't remember who proposed it - but it seems to me the best solution should have a minimum academic standard. So for Harvard, maybe you need a 1450 SAT score and a 3.9 GPA- or whatever it is.

Then you take everyone who made that standard and said "You met the requirements to get into Harvard."

Then if you have 1,000 spots and 10,000 people who met the standard, you hold a lottery and those 1,000 people get to go to Harvard.

That way, (i) the "rejects" know it was luck, (ii) the applicants know it was luck and they aren't god's gift, and (iii) you don't have grown adults debating whose personal essay (written by chat GTP / a college consultant) make 18 year old kids a better person than other 18 year old kids.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099441)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:40 AM
Author: Obsidian stock car

That would defeat the entire purpose of perpetuating the entrenched aristocracy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099451)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:42 AM
Author: Histrionic toilet seat

Interesting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49099454)



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Date: July 14th, 2025 1:57 PM
Author: tantric arousing dopamine trailer park

Increase the difficulty of the SAT to what it was back in the early 90s. Give URMs vouchers to pay for one SAT prep course. Then admit those with highest score. This is the only fair way.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749943&forum_id=2#49100457)