New revelations emerge about attempts to get students into Berkeley.

[amsunshine]

@ucbalumnus

I realize that the predominant opinion on these forums is in favor of development admission (and other means of adding privilege to existing advantage like legacy admission). However, when the university has a rule restricting development admission (Regents Policy 2202), that rule should be followed, or those who oppose the rule should lobby for it to be changed or removed.

If you favor development admission, is it ok for the rich and powerful to ignore the rules as they exist, or find questionable loopholes around them, rather than obeying the rules as they exist? Should that be applied to any rule that a rich or powerful person feels that they do not want to obey?

I’m not in favor of anyone getting around rules and definitely not in favor of “development admission”, as you describe it. I think admissions should be based on straight up merit, and I’m not a fan of the wishy washy “holistic” review.

That said, I am trying to withhold judgment about this particular scenario until more facts come to light to suggest that this letter made any particular difference with regard to the student in question. I guess I also want some more information about the whole incident in general before making a full-on condemnation.