Can You Buy Your Way Into the Ivy League?

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Author and practicing psychologist Madeline Levine describes how wealthier parents "buy" their children's admissions into prestigious Ivy League schools, and discusses their psychological motivations for doing so.

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Madeline Levine talks about "The Price of Privilege."

Madeline Levine has been a psychologist for 25 years. Practicing in upper middle-class Marin County, her teenage patients are bright, socially skilled, and loved by their affluent parents. But behind a veneer of achievement and charm, many of these teens suffered severe emotional problems. Numerous studies show that privileged adolescents are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, anxiety disorders, and substance abuse - rates that are higher than those of any other socioeconomic group of young people in this country. While many privileged children project confidence and know how to make a good impression, alarming numbers lack the basic foundation of psychological development: an authentic sense of self.

In "The Price of Privilege," Levine offers professional counsel on raising children, especially in an environment of means. Levine will help identify parenting practices that are potentially harmful to healthy self-development, and that have contributed to epidemic levels of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse in the most unlikely place - the affluent family.

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[abinaderus]

No correlation between where you go to college and your career earnings? That is ridiculous. I went to Harvard, where starting salaries went up into the $200Ks! Try to get that at Everyman's University.

Every person I hung with at Harvard is now a millionaire. Every one of them! If you were in the Porcellian Club at Harvard, if you are not a millionaire by age 40, they GIVE you a million dollars! And they don't have to do this very often. The Harvard alums who WANT millions, get it.

[bluffking101]

Tell yourself whatever you want, my son gets better grades than Ivy kids, my son is happier, but when this woman said there is 0 correlation between the school you attend and your salary she's talking out of her ass. I have no idea where she got that data from. Seems like she made it up on the spot to appease parents like you. The Ivy's are the most selective schools on earth. They are prestigious and famous for a reason. Grow up.

[WeEatBrainz]

Bill O'Reilly bought his way into Harvard.

[ShadowCrashed81]

@abinaderus I'm sorry but there are only so many millionaires. I'm calling you out.

[The310toYumaIsOnTime]

@EllenLN100 when you're family makes less than 60k, you're working at Target to pay for your clothing and to participate in basic social activities. When you work while you're in school, you don't have much time to study. In addition, MONEY CAN SCIENTIFICALLY REDUCE STRESS. Less stress = better academic performance. Your parents make more money, you have more academic advantages. You have more advantages, more successful ppl associate with u, and you make more money->your kids go to an ivy

[Anal3t1cia]

If I can pay way to into an Ivy league school, I WOULD! lol too bad that my parents don't have money and i have to work my ass off to go to UCLA.

[newguy33X]

@Juicexlx So you really think that Medical, well-respected MBA, and Law schools don't take ANY notice of six or seven figure donors who have kids looking to get in? Maybe you were thinking about bachelour's degrees mainly. They can let in who they want, and if caught playing favourites, they can chalk it up to "creating a balanced campus population" or crap like that. Didn't UofT recently get caught skipping over more- talented Asians for other races?

[vivian333999]

of course, certain ppl buy their way in. but harvard has a big name because it has and produces so many talented ppl, not just spoilt ones.

[aznrunner]

Cornell.

[Twilightifyable]

Workers of the World Unite isn't just a slogan anymore" -Andy Stern

watch?v=WzG0xpkjWrA

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"Proletarians of all countries, unite!" - Karl Marx & Engel's Manifesto of the Communist Party,1848, at Chp. 9.

watch?v=uD-h25evW3g

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(Equal obligation of all to work in industrial armies [8th pt. of communist manifesto]) GOOGLE the others, because they are just as devastating.

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Allen West 2012

[EllenLN100]

PS. I know that Stanford isn't in the Ivy League, I just used it as an example because I'm familiar with it

[EllenLN100]

It makes me angry when people don't apply to Ivy and other top schools because they think they can't pay for it. These people aren't aware of the reality that if you are accepted for your own merits, these schools will meet 100% of your demonstrated need! For example at Stanford, you generally get a full-ride if income is <$60,000, and pay 10% of your income if it is <$130,000.

The argument of top schools being too expensive for the lower/middle classes is moot.