УКРАИНА 24

Рома, это не то. Это - про то, что большинство частных колледжей дает поблажку ребенку выпускника того же университета. Но это вовсе не значит, что тот выпускник пожертвовал заметные деньги университету. Мог - да, а мог и нет, но поблажка, даже если ни копейки не дал, у его ребенка - все равно есть.

Так зачем же родителям переезжать? Достаточно переехать ребенку и порваландаться там годик, а уж потом получить статус калифорнийца, со всеми его преимуществами.
И не обязательно в Калифорнию:во многих штатах есть штатные университеты хорошего уровня.
Массачуссетс - редкое исключение:
Там и Гарвард, и МИТ, а вот штатный университет - очень так себе.

Вот смотрите, сколько лишних очков за что:

• Blacks: +230
• Hispanics: +185
• Asians: -50
• Recruited athletes: +200
• Legacies (children of alumni): +160

Видите? Спортсменом или негром - все еще лучше быть, чем сыном выпускника.
ПС Мое любимое "эссе", за которое абитуриента взяли в у-т Нью-Йорка:
I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently.
Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.
Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.
I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat 400.
My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations with the CIA.
I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid.
On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prize-winning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin.
I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.
But I have not yet gone to college.

Ну и как правильно сказать, если 49%? Разве не больше, чем вдвое меньше?