<p>Well, what I mean is this:</p>
<p>Say I have pretty good credentials (SAT, SAT II, GPA, and etc.) but not good enough to gain admission to the universiy.</p>
<p>But, then can I just PAY/BUY my way in? (I don't want a scholarship or anything) (I'm not rich or prominent)</p>
<p>Thanks for answering. (Even though this is a pretty dumb question)</p>
<p>Of course you can. Make sure you have a couple million dollars lying around.</p>
<p>Harvard admits that "buying" your way in is quite possible. Every year they take several developmenty candidates, people who have given or have a strong possibility of giving high seven figures. How do you propose buying yourself in if you're not rich?</p>
<p>You're going to have to be very rich to buy yourself in, like a couple hundred million dollars.</p>
<p>That was uncalled for, logistics.</p>
<p>Ok James, then you answer the question about how to pay in without being rich? any ideas?</p>
<p>It doesn't matter. That's offensive.</p>
<p>Well, maybe he could sleep with the Dean himself :D</p>
<p>ofcourse you can pay your way into a good school, how do you think Bush got into Yale?</p>
<p>Yes, you can buy your way in as a developmental admit. Endow a chair, build a new building, donate a few hundred million dollars.</p>
<p>that doesnt necessarily get him in. i kno someone who was a national merit comended or whatever, had 2300+ SAT, decent GPA, double legacy at UPenn, and his parents had donated millions of dollars to actually have a building built, its named after them...this person got REJECTED...so clearly money doesnt mean that much</p>
<p>That person must have screwed up huge^^^^^^^^ somehow...</p>
<p>Money definitely matters. Harvard want to keep that endowment high and having sons/daughters of big CEOs helps and having celebrities helps....</p>
<p>moose: Wow, that must've been a huge embarrassment for the family.</p>
<p>Wow, look at you 17 year olds saying "that is innappropriate." "That is unnecessary." Quit being such grandparents. Logistics was just being sarcastic/funny so chill out.</p>
<p>um...i believe the dean of admissions said that it would take 8 figures to simply buy your way into harvard...</p>
<p>that being said, if your family was rich and had a great potential to pay a ton of money in the long run that would be similar as well.</p>
<p>I love how you think that it's going to take hundreds of millions of dollars to get some kid admitted. I think if you played your cards right, showed interest in the university, and a low level of failing miserably, you could probably get in for aroudn a million.</p>
<p>haha.. reminds me of Blair in 'Gossip Girls'...</p>
<p>"maybe he can sleep with the dean himself"</p>
<p>ahahaha... unless the dean is a holy or chaste man...</p>
<p>i strongly believe the reason why bush went to yale is some money+hi daddy.....</p>
<p>what if there is a university named after some ancestors of yours or a large and popular building named after them (80 years ago)</p>
<p>Maybe if you are a Kennedy or Rockfeller.</p>