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"Why it pays to read iSteve: Naive Hong Kong parents pay conman $2.2 million to bribe their sons into Harvard"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

"""""
So, today, let me beg you: I really, really need to make more money off my writing. It's all I do. I'm not a good multitasker, and if I had to go back and get a real job, I wouldn't be able to write much at all.
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You need to write some books. It's kind of ridiculous you've only written one of them.

10/10/12, 6:27 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

what i would like to see is a lawsuit against harvard renege on someone who gave 'the number' it's bound to happen eventually.

10/10/12, 6:47 PM

Anonymous Diogenes' Diaphragm said...

Well, I know nothing about the profession of marketing, but it seems to me that burying your plea in a post about something else (however tangentially related) isn't the way to go about it.

If you provide a service that people appreciate (and I myself find on your site a lot of interesting ideas that I'd never come across otherwise), and you need money, then say so more directly in a post that says directly what you want. Obviously, you've done that in earlier posts, but the plea in this post should get a post of its own.

And I was one of those who coughed up a bit of money yesterday. I have to say that normally I don't think people who post stuff on the internet deserve to get paid for it, but I really do think I find something here that I wouldn't be able to get anywhere else.

So, all you deadbeats out there: give Sailer $50 or $100! That's really not much money, and if everybody who reads this blog profitably (ha!) did that, SS should be able to pay off whatever this big expense of his is and get on with his writing.

10/10/12, 7:00 PM

Anonymous chucho said...

Sending a check.

10/10/12, 7:05 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Re the "Harvard number", there was a book written about it by Daniel Golden called "The Price of Admission." It was around $2.5 million in the early to mid-2000s. I guess it inflated upwards like everything else to around $5 million or so like you heard from your acquaintance:

www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/books/review/Wolff2.t.html

"In “The Price of Admission,” a delicious account of gross inequities in high places, Daniel Golden tells me that I’ve gotten away cheap. A son of Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, got into Princeton because the Frist family “had lavished tens of millions of dollars on a new student center” there. Margaret Bass, daughter of the oil magnate Robert Bass, got into Stanford after her old man gave the university $25 million. Jessica Zofnass’s Harvard-educated father endowed a scholarship in environmental studies around the time of her admission. Charles Kushner, a real estate developer who went to jail for witness tampering and illegal campaign contributions, pledged $2.5 million to Harvard — Kushner himself went to N.Y.U. — which did the trick for his son Jared (who recently bought The New York Observer). Golden is distressed by the notion that his book might become a buyer’s guide, but his answer to the question “What’s it cost to buy your kid into Harvard?” seems to be $2.5 mil, plus what you’ve contributed to politicians, legally or not, so they’ll make a follow-up call for you."

10/10/12, 7:22 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

What happened to the doctrine of unclean hands? They wanted to bribe their way into Harvard. Case dismissed with prejudice.

10/10/12, 7:48 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

If I give you money will you let my insightful comments through?

10/10/12, 7:57 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

You need to write some books. It's kind of ridiculous you've only written one of them.

Seconded. Cowens and Caplans of the world churn out tons of books, market them shamelessly and make decent profit in the end (mostly indirect, probably; think of all the Gladwellian speaking fees you'd get from all the major corporations striving to learn about the importance of HBD :-))

10/10/12, 8:18 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Another advantage of bitcoin is there is no "they" to stop processing your payments "accidentally".

10/10/12, 9:07 PM

Anonymous Mitch said...

Steve, I forget why you don't use Paypal? It's very efficient and convenient; I don't know if it's more expensive than other methods.

10/10/12, 9:16 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just come out and say it.

10/10/12, 9:19 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why is the Globe covering this story now? The story it tells seems to end in 2009. Indeed, the lawsuit dates back to 2010. The only news seems to be that it's about to go to court.

Who wants this story to appear in the paper? Or did the newspaper find it by looking at upcoming cases? If they do that, why don't they look at filed cases, and thus report on this years ago?

10/10/12, 9:58 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The American winners of this years' Nobel Prizes are all American-born. What happened to the supposed Indian geniuses we are importing on H1B visas? Maybe we should increase the H1B quota to 100 million a year.

10/10/12, 10:08 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve:

We have family friends, Harvard and Wellesley grads respectively, who bought their son's way into Harvard with several million as you mention after he was wait listed.

I almost wonder if Harvard does this on purpose with people who are known to be very wealthy. Our friends are worth a few hundreds of millions, so the sum was pocket change to them.

10/11/12, 4:55 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I met a guy once who said his girlfriend had gotten into Harvard on a mere $2 million donation, but one of her parents (her father, I think) was an alumnus, and she was probably a competitive applicant anyway, so I'm sure they gave her family a deep discount.

10/11/12, 5:50 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kill the daughter, raise the son! Harvard Harvard numba one!

10/11/12, 8:17 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kill the daughter, raise the son! Harvard Harvard numba one!

10/11/12, 8:17 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Citizens of China yet their names are Gerald and Lily. How white of them. *roll eyes*

Two wrongs don't make a right. The Chows wanted to bribe, which is illegal, Harvard with money. They couldn't do that so they turned to Zinny. I'm not surprised the judge went along with the Chows because there is a pervasive "good student" meme with East Asians which places them beyond criticism in society. The lawsuit should have been tossed out. The Chows were not honest, fair people. They were in on an illegal game.

10/11/12, 1:12 PM

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