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> This system isn't "fair", but the outcome is effectively the same as our current setup. With the most notable difference being that, at least this system is transparent and acknowledges that X% of incoming students paid for their post.

With the current setup, there are consequences to trying to pay your way in if you're caught. What's the point of removing those consequences?

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Those consequences, in practice, simply act as an additional filter: you have to be savvy enough, and well-connected enough, to make a large alumni donation, and butter up the admissions committee.

This would replace that with cash on the barrel, which is simpler and more honest.

I'm not convinced it's better, but that would be the point of so doing.

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