I think a bigger problem here might be an 8-year-old who's still working on Dr Seuss.

"Not one person in direct contact w/customers was black"?!?

You're also describing the kitchens of an awful lot of Michelin-starred restaurants.

Newsflash: Guardian readers wish the Sun were different.

"Daily Fail" is funnier.. but Julie Burchill coined the "Hell" variant. Respect, innit?

I'm all for slaps being administered for lazy, entitled behavior - but let's start w/some Jez staff writers that truly deserve it... not some future savings n' loan manager from rural Texas.

Interesting point. One caveat: at most top-tier schools, base retention and 4-yr graduation rates tend to be sky-high already. (Yale is like 99%/90%; Williams is 97%/91%).

Part of the editorial judgment here seems to be: "Hey, this really depressed me. I hope it depresses you too!"

I was referring to the Overlap Group, which included all the Ivies and all the top liberal-arts colleges. The Ivies chose to adopt a separate policy after talks with the DOJ, while the rest of the schools opted to continue coordinating aid packages based on newer, somewhat stricter criteria.

Hence my careful use of the phrase "base funds". Any endowment will rely relatively more on current returns than incoming funds given a sufficiently long timeframe, a positive equity premium and a relatively careful management. One generation is not a lot in the context of 300 years.

I glanced at the website for the liberal-arts college often ranked first; my language was adapted from their FAQ.

Re: need-blind admissions... where do you think the base funds in the endowments came from, if not alums (i.e., legacy parents/grandparents etc)?

Always the preferred direction to err when discussing looks, I reckon.

Good info. I should have been clear that I'm a little out of touch, and the situation is changing as endowment growth slows (or reverses) at many institutions. And (to be a little cynical), as alums re-evaulate giving in light of the closing gap between legacy-admit %ages and overall %ages.

I'm happily out of tune w/the precise dynamics of current admissions... but I did just get back from alum reunions — and it's fascinating to see a 50-year slice of how admissions have evolved.

That was from the current website of a highly-ranked lib-arts college.

The captions prove the Mail is impossible to parody:

Ugh. Chanel sunglasses? That's ridiculous. Would have been mocked severely for Euro-trash (or more likely, Long Island) affectation at any New England school (at least back when the phrase "Euro-trash" was still in use!)

Lest we forget, he's only spoken during oral arguments once in like a decade. And that was to make a tepid joke about Yale Law...

Did your school give out any scholarship/merit money to kids who wouldn't have otherwise qualified for it, based on financial-aid analyses?