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<blockquote data-quote="LibertyTurns" data-source="post: 729030" data-attributes="member: 789"><p>In conjunction with 5 others I help run an annual half scholarship. Our charter demands the scholarship be funded in perpetuity so we carefully manage the amount allocated and ensure the principal amount can cover even under the most extreme cases, ie a 90% market crash. Also, GT restricts the amount we can give because they do not want us competing with the President’s scholarship. I’m sure Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc have similar arrangements.</p><p></p><p>I do think your comment about buying admissions is a bit misguided. Sure as I can be people with connections will continue to game the system. Grants to do research, jobs for family members, extras regular or poor people cannot possibly afford will always separate the haves from the have nots.</p><p></p><p>I believe it was you that mentioned you moved to a higher tax area because of the schools. The dude making $50k with a wife with a part time job doesn’t have that luxury to guarantee his kids a good education. He’s reliant on the marginally competent, hopefully motivated teacher his kid gets stuck with. He closes his blinds at night so nobody shoots at him thru the window and doesn’t have the superfast internet his kids can surf to do their homework on their new Apple laptop. It’s a crap shoot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LibertyTurns, post: 729030, member: 789"] In conjunction with 5 others I help run an annual half scholarship. Our charter demands the scholarship be funded in perpetuity so we carefully manage the amount allocated and ensure the principal amount can cover even under the most extreme cases, ie a 90% market crash. Also, GT restricts the amount we can give because they do not want us competing with the President’s scholarship. I’m sure Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc have similar arrangements. I do think your comment about buying admissions is a bit misguided. Sure as I can be people with connections will continue to game the system. Grants to do research, jobs for family members, extras regular or poor people cannot possibly afford will always separate the haves from the have nots. I believe it was you that mentioned you moved to a higher tax area because of the schools. The dude making $50k with a wife with a part time job doesn’t have that luxury to guarantee his kids a good education. He’s reliant on the marginally competent, hopefully motivated teacher his kid gets stuck with. He closes his blinds at night so nobody shoots at him thru the window and doesn’t have the superfast internet his kids can surf to do their homework on their new Apple laptop. It’s a crap shoot. [/QUOTE]
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