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p******e
发帖数: 897
1
I would like to express my gratitude to Jared Kushner for reviving interest
in my 2006 book, “ The Price of Admission.” I have never met or spoken
with him, and it’s rare in this life to find such a selfless benefactor. Of
course, I doubt he became Donald Trump’s son-in-law and consigliere merely
to boost my lagging sales, but still, I’m thankful.
My book exposed a grubby secret of American higher education: that the rich
buy their under-achieving children’s way into elite universities with
massive, tax-deductible donations. It reported that New Jersey real estate
developer Charles Kushner had pledged $2.5 million to Harvard University in
1998, not long before his son Jared was admitted to the prestigious Ivy
League school. At the time, Harvard accepted about one of every nine
applicants. (Nowadays, it only takes one out of twenty.)
I also quoted administrators at Jared’s high school, who described him as a
less than stellar student and expressed dismay at Harvard’s decision.
“There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school
thought he would on the merits get into Harvard,” a former official at The
Frisch School in Paramus, New Jersey, told me. “His GPA did not warrant it,
his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way
this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted. It was a
little bit disappointing because there were at the time other kids we
thought should really get in on the merits, and they did not.”
Risa Heller, a spokeswoman for Kushner Companies, said in an email Thursday
that “the allegation” that Charles Kushner’s gift to Harvard was related
to Jared’s admission “is and always has been false.” His parents, Charles
and Seryl Kushner, “are enormously generous and have donated over 100
million dollars to universities, hospitals and other charitable causes.
Jared Kushner was an excellent student in high school and graduated from
Harvard with honors.” (About 90 percent of Jared’s 2003 class at Harvard
also graduated with honors.)
My Kushner discoveries were an offshoot of my research for a chapter on
Harvard donors. Somebody had slipped me a document I had long coveted: the
membership list of Harvard’s Committee on University Resources. The
university wooed more than 400 of its biggest givers and most promising
prospects by putting them on this committee and inviting them to campus
periodically to be wined, dined, and subjected to lectures by eminent
professors.
My idea was to figure out how many children of these corporate titans, oil
barons, money managers, lawyers, high-tech consultants and old-money heirs
had gone to Harvard. A disproportionate tally might suggest that the
university eased its standards for the offspring of wealthy backers.
I began working through the list, poring over “Who’s Who in America” and
Harvard class reunion reports for family information. Charles and Seryl
Kushner were both on the committee. I had never heard of them, but their
joint presence struck me as a sign that Harvard’s fundraising machine held
the couple in especially fond regard.
The clips showed that Charles Kushner’s empire encompassed 25,000 New
Jersey apartments, along with extensive office, industrial and retail space
and undeveloped land. Unlike most of his fellow committee members, though,
Kushner was not a Harvard man. He had graduated from New York University.
This eliminated the sentimental tug of the alma mater as a reason for him to
give to Harvard, leaving another likely explanation: his children.
Sure enough, his sons Jared and Joshua had both enrolled there.
Charles Kushner differed from his peers on the committee in another way; he
had a criminal record. Five years after Jared entered Harvard, the elder
Kushner pleaded guilty in 2004 to tax violations, illegal campaign donations
, and retaliating against a witness. (As it happens, the prosecutor in the
case was Chris Christie, recently ousted as the head of Trump’s transition
team.) Charles Kushner had hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law,
who was cooperating with federal authorities. Kushner then had a videotape
of the tryst sent to his sister. He was sentenced to two years in federal
prison.
I completed my analysis, which justified my hunch. Of the 400-plus tycoons
on Harvard’s list — which included people who were childless or too young
to have college-age offspring — more than half had sent at least one child
to the university.
I also decided that the Kushner-Harvard relationship deserved special
attention. Although the university often heralded big gifts in press
releases or a bulletin called — in a classic example of fundraising wit, “
Re:sources” — a search of these outlets came up empty. Harvard didn’t
seem eager to be publicly associated with Charles Kushner.
While looking into Kushner’s taxes, though, federal authorities had
subpoenaed records of his charitable giving. I learned that in 1998, when
Jared was attending The Frisch School and starting to look at colleges, his
father had pledged $2.5 million to Harvard, to be paid in annual
installments of $250,000. Charles Kushner also visited Neil Rudenstine, then
Harvard president, and discussed funding a scholarship program for low- and
middle-income students.
I phoned a Harvard official, with whom I was on friendly terms. First I
asked whether the gift played any role in Jared’s admission. “You know we
don’t comment on individual applicants,” he said. When I pressed further,
he hung up. We haven’t spoken since.
At Harvard, Jared Kushner majored in government. Now the 35-year-old is
poised to become the power behind the presidency. What he plans to do, and
in what direction he and his father-in-law will lead the country, are far
more important than his high school grades.
p******e
发帖数: 897
2
money quote
“His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought
for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold,
Jared was accepted. It was a little bit disappointing because there were at
the time other kids we
thought should really get in on the merits, and they did not.”

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【在 p******e 的大作中提到】
: I would like to express my gratitude to Jared Kushner for reviving interest
: in my 2006 book, “ The Price of Admission.” I have never met or spoken
: with him, and it’s rare in this life to find such a selfless benefactor. Of
: course, I doubt he became Donald Trump’s son-in-law and consigliere merely
: to boost my lagging sales, but still, I’m thankful.
: My book exposed a grubby secret of American higher education: that the rich
: buy their under-achieving children’s way into elite universities with
: massive, tax-deductible donations. It reported that New Jersey real estate
: developer Charles Kushner had pledged $2.5 million to Harvard University in
: 1998, not long before his son Jared was admitted to the prestigious Ivy

H**r
发帖数: 10015
3
左臂装什么纯洁啊,还secret
人家给的钱远远大于培养一个学生的花费,就好像飞机头等舱的客人。你把头等舱客人
哄走了对经济舱客人有啥好的。
UC这种公立学校凭啥歧视亚洲人,搞AA,凭啥天天哄着illegal aliens?
UT Austin那种德州人民血汗钱,和海岸左臂大学看齐,让辛辛苦苦德州人民的优秀子
女进不去?
p******e
发帖数: 897
4
never try southwest?

【在 H**r 的大作中提到】
: 左臂装什么纯洁啊,还secret
: 人家给的钱远远大于培养一个学生的花费,就好像飞机头等舱的客人。你把头等舱客人
: 哄走了对经济舱客人有啥好的。
: UC这种公立学校凭啥歧视亚洲人,搞AA,凭啥天天哄着illegal aliens?
: UT Austin那种德州人民血汗钱,和海岸左臂大学看齐,让辛辛苦苦德州人民的优秀子
: 女进不去?

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