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Last week we took a look at a Boston Globe op-ed by Neal Gabler which alleged that college admissions was a tool of the rich and powerful to become richer and powerfuller and exfoliate themselves each morning with a salt scrub quelled from peasant tears. Of course that aggression could not stand, not at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. Instead Maggie Liu, arts editor of The Tech, the student newspaper, lashes out saying that college admissions are not a scam and that "disparity amongst students’ backgrounds is not something that the college admissions officer can help," but rather is something "intrinsic in society."

For me, personally, the greatest revelation from this article is that the MIT Admissions director is named "Stuart Schmill". No, like seriously, that's his real name. Although, he probably got made fun for that tons of times as a child, so I'll lay off.

I also enjoyed how Liu juxtaposed "a student from an inner-city school with a family income of less than $60,000 with a student from Greenwich, Connecticut whose father owns a shipping industry."

I thought this was an astute juxtaposition, but I'm told by my friends with in's to some of Greenwich, Connecticut's most prestigious social circles, that a "shipping industry" isn't even a cool industry to own. In fact, as far as industries which could be conceivably owned by an MIT student's father go, I'm told its not even as cool the mill industry. Ehh, mill Schmill. (Dammit!)