Elite colleges are not necessarily the best schools to go to.... education-wise,  For many of the rich, elite colleges for their kids are status symbols, where the kids just can just bum around until they graduate with bogus degrees that they didn't really earn. 

They don't have to work at it because they know the name of the college on that bit of paper at the end will open pleaty of doors.... while those kids who worked hard at non-elite schools often get overlooked.  I worked with a bloke who attended a high profile college in Brisbane, yet he was as dumb as all fech and knew very little about anything.  I could do his job better than he could, yet he was getting the big bucks because of his so-called schooling.

Not sure if this is funny or just sad - the NY Post is reporting that the older daughter of Lori Laughlin posted on Instagram that she wasn't really interested in attending classes at USC, but she really wanted to experience the party scene. So her mom might be going to jail to get her into a college she wasn't interested in and probably won't put in the effort to graduate from.

Wealth and privilege seems to be a popular mindset among the so called elite. I wonder how many of them will buy their way out of jail.

It's good this problem is getting exposure but sadly I don't think anything will change. The wealthy always seem to get whatever they want. Look at Jared Kushner. Jared was a mediocre student in High School at best but Daddy donated 2.5 million to Harvard and lo and behold Jared went to Harvard. It's not just Hollywood people doing this. It's anybody with money. Money always has talked and people listen to money. It's plain and simple.

I don't mind posting mine.....................now where did I put that calculator.   

Quoting starkers,

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Yeah, Uvah's that old he was drawing a pension when the abacus first went on sale.

And math was done on papyrus.  

No no........I was doin' my thing before the thumb was invented.   

And starkers is so old he partnered with LightStar to make the first string of beads with pebbles from the Permian shore.

And then you got in the wrong queue at distribution.... and now you can't thumb your nose at anyone.

And you're so old you mistook the Big Bang for a knock at the door.  Then you hightailed it out the back door just in case it was the cops.

A degree means nothing at the end of the day, because essentially it's just a piece of paper.  Knowledge most certainly is more important, and if that knowledge accompanies that piece of paper then all well and good.  Far too often, however, that piece of paper is solitary and lacks the credentials/ kinowledge that should go with it.

The smartest man I ever met left school when he was eight to help support his family.  He never returned to school and never attended university, yet he has all the business smarts anyone could ever need.  He started his own business with one truck and expanded it with additional trucks and drivers until he'd created Linfox, one of the largest transport companies in Australia, perhaps even the world as he also has overseas interests now as well.

What's more, he's a great bloke to work for... not stuck up, like some university types who think they're better than we peons.

Of just about every branch of government these days. You don't need a degree or experience. All you need is big bucks and the right stooge to give them to.

The administration in charge of this country makes it a point of appointing people who actually are running down the department they are appointed to. For example, Scott Pruitt who's background was full of scandals. He was put in charge of the EPA but if you look you'll see that in Oklahoma he sued the EPA 14 times! So if you want to destroy a department put someone like that in charge of it. His tenure as chief of the EPA was mired in controversy and near scandal. 

And the shmuck who replaced him is no better. Then there is the ersatz science council appointed to 'discuss' climate change. The head of which claimed that CO2, a green house gas, was being unfairly persecuted. Imagine that. Highly educated they are.