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TIPPING FOR COLLEGE
A recent report shows that Yale is the next university to join Harvard, Princeton, and Dartmouth in letting their admission o cers accept tips.
ese colleges announced recently that their admission o cers would be allowed to take tips from those applying for their classes. ey assured students and sta that these tips would not be factored in when deciding who gets in, however, some community members disagree.
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Canto Ford is a student who is concerned about whether he may be denied a position in one of these schools because of his nancial situation.
“I think that letting o cers take money from students might lead to some bias in who gets into these top schools,” Ford said. “I just think the fact that you can donate money doesn’t sit right with me”
Despite this pushback, some students support these colleges in their choice to allow tips for admission o cers. ey argue that it’s unfair to not allow students who want to pay these o cers to pay them. Richard Born argues that students who disagree with this policy are probably just bad tippers.
“I just think we should let them keep the money, you know?” Born said. “I mean they should get a right to know who wants to pay them money for their hard work” Even within these colleges, it appears that this decision may be controversial as many professors have outwardly spoken against it. A large number of professors created a public letter asking their schools to stop “Letting anyone join” their schools. One of them is a professor in mathematics named Jus Tidone.
“Almost half my kids act like they’ve never tak is appears to be a growing concern among at these schools, however in a recent meet ing administration from these colleges attempted to ese schools are still a measure of intelligence” and “Just because they know who gave them money, doesn’t mean they will do anything with that knowledge”. It seems like for many students around the country the biggest question is if other schools will follow their lead or if they can talk their parents into tipping their administration o cer more.
