How much would you pay to have a 100% shot at Harvard?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>I'm not talking about if your family made a little more money or if you had a couple of years to work your investments. I mean if, right now, you were offered a 100% shot at getting into Harvard and you could give them money from bank accounts, friends (borrowed from them), assets that you would then liquidate, etc. Say you had... 24 hours. The time doesn't really matter though, only that you have to pay exactly as you are now, or else you just have to apply regularly like everyone else.</p>

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<p>This reminds me once of a cover of “Cosmopolitan” magazine. On it, in bold lettering, was this: “Are you a Smarty or a Dummy: a quiz”</p>

<p>Without even wondering about the contents of the aforementioned “quiz”, I immediately could tell you the answer to that question. Whoever took the quiz was the latter and not the former.</p>

<p>What does this have to do with OP’s question? Let him/her figure it out.</p>

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<p>Thank you T26E4. I have lost all patience, really.</p>

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<p>H is a top research U with a beautiful campus, an outstanding student body and a not very outstanding rep for its undergraduate teaching. It has its ups & downs alongside dozens (yes) of peer institutions. How it has been mythologized into this heaven on earth is beyond me.</p>

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<p>Well, gee, thanks, everyone. I don’t think of Harvard as such a mystical place either; I just wanted to see how people would respond.</p>

<p>How can I get this deleted?</p>

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<p>$5.64</p>

<p>Is there tax?!?</p>

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<p>A more interesting question would be, how much do some people pay to get into Harvard?</p>

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<p>From what I’ve heard, quite a lot. It gets into the millions at some points when parents donate whole buildings (or wings of buildings). That still doesn’t make their children’s chances 100%, though.</p>

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<p>I think a considerable percentage of people with enough money to do so wouldn’t bother going to college in the first place.</p>

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<p>Possibly, but they wouldn’t be right; the money they inherit doesn’t last forever, especially if they don’t manage it well.</p>

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<p>Haha this is a cute thread; the sardonic comments are snarky and rude.</p>

<p>I wouldn’t pay a penny.</p>