I once read a scandal at LSE how one of profs himself wrote thesis for a student who was son of a president of a country.
It was all over media then. The unfair and undue advantage these competitive unis and elite unis give, if student is child of a wealthy or powerful family.
And how unfair it is for kids of other families and ordinary kids who aspire to get into these unis or struggle to complete their degrees. Other kids keep blaming self or feel inferiority complex in self or their abilities or feel they lack intelligence or had bad schooling or poor parenting perhaps.
Privilege is real. I wonder why people deny it or try to behave as if a rich person's kid got everything purely on merit.
I refuse to believe for even a second that daughters of Smriti Irani, RS Prasad made it to elite unis abroad solely on merit and their parents being union ministers and having all networks and resources in the world had no role in elite foreign unis accepting their kids for admission.
Same goes for Ambani kids or Gandhi-Nehru kids.
I have read young Indira Gandhi was a poor student. I wonder how did she make it to Oxford then if she had a so so academic record? Being daughter of PM of India had its role to play it seems.
I also refuse to believe Manpreet Badal made it to Harvard purely on merit and his uncle being long serving CM of Punjab had no role in securing him admission there.
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