<p>All applying to UIUC should be aware of the newest scandal on the block: Clout</a> goes to college -- chicagotribune.com</p>
<p>I bet this happens at every school - be it private or public, a national university or a regional university. </p>
<p>Although it taints the university, it exposes what wrong with the system (it just so happens the state of Illinois is filled with corruption to its brim, and the past events of Blago draws attention to the state).</p>
<p>76th percentile… wow…</p>
<p>It would be interesting to see how those admits eventually fare… Do they flunk out? …rise to the challenge? …are they the ones everyone loves for pulling the class grading curve down?</p>
<p>This is Illinois - I’m sure no one is surprised ‘political favor’ admissions is going on at UIUC.</p>
<p>Yeah it didn’t really surprise me that much, but as an alumnus, it still pains me to hear. I would have to agree with LQTM though in that I bet this goes on at the majority of colleges that have any connection to politics, and we already know that it is prevalent at private schools.</p>
<p>Is it really surprising for any public college to admit the children of influential relatives that may potentially have a level of influence over the funding they receive? Or even upper-tier private schools that have a great number of highly influential alumni? Seriously, this is nothing new, and it didn’t seem to me like there was an obscene amount of students this policy impacted especially when UIUC is so large in the first place. I’m not particularly concerned by it. C’est la vie.</p>
<p>Please quit confusing “the state of Illinois” with “the state of Chicago and Mayor Daly’s political machine”, the two are actually quite different.</p>
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<p>True, the politics of Chicago are vastly different than those of the rest of the state, and you rarely (read: never) hear of downstate politicians getting in too much trouble, but like it or not, we are all part of the same state, and the southern part of the state just has to put up with the riff raff that goes on up north. Not much we can do about it anyway, given that something like 70% of the voting power lies up there.</p>
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<p>Right… As if state government isn’t just as corrupt. :rolleyes: How many Illinois governors have been indicted and/or convicted?</p>
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<p>I don’t think you get it. alanmckinley is showing some downstate pride. Notice that Senator Durbin from downstate (E. St. Louis) rules.</p>
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<p>I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic, or not. That’s the same Senator Durbin who traded on and profited from inside, non-publicly disclosed info last year. Remember the private briefing and the hastily proposed bailout bill? Sherman disclosed what Durbin and others were told, after the fact.
[Durbin</a> Must Resign - The Market Ticker](<a href=“The Market Ticker Error: Post Not Available”>The Market Ticker Error: Post Not Available)</p>
<p>It was a day before the information was disclosed . . . I don’t know much about trading etc., so maybe its not so bad, but still that’s shady. I shouldn’t defend it. Oh well. I like a lot of his political stances.</p>
<p>"Right… As if state government isn’t just as corrupt. How many Illinois governors have been indicted and/or convicted? "</p>
<p>Four of the last 8, or 50%, of the governors of Illinois have been arrested and been in jail.</p>
<p>In Illinois, if you commit murder, you have a 47% chance of being arrested and going to jail.</p>
<p>Which career path would you choose?</p>