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:: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 ::
Give Top University Opportunities to talent kids from Homeless Families
In respond to letter from dean of John Hopkins University below, I was thinking that wealthy top universities in this country should provide more opportunities to talent kids from American homeless or poor families, especially, wealthy universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford ...etc that have accumulated billions of donations sitting there idling.
Talent kids from homeless or poor families often under disadvantage situation, and it is not their fault to be poor as high school graduates. High tuition barrier from top wealthy universities is a shame. If the wealthies top univesities with the means and numerous talented faculty and students do not care of 30 millions of homeless or poor American families, you know we are far from great nation of the world.
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Dean of Undergraduate Admissions
John Hopkins University
Dear John Latting,
Thanks for your kind letter and invitation to JHU for my son who just got admitted to UC Berkeley major Chemistry. He applied for UC Berkeley because Berkeley ranked #1 in Chemistry.
Nonetheless, JHU is one of the best universities in the world, and we visited JHU in the past, among all other top universities. I have to say JHU's visitor program is one of the best. In fact, we also visit JHU quite a few times by ourselves.
Unfortunately, after visiting UC Berkeley, my son Larry decided not to accept the admission because there are too many homeless people all over the campus, at Berkeley streets. Not that he is unsympathetic to homeless American, in fact, we have helped thousands of homeless to move off homelessness. He felt $200,000 going to UC Berkeley (just non residence fee itself cost $20,000 a year) could be better spend to help hundreds of homeless Americans to move off homelessness.
For the same reason, he did not apply for JHU because every time we visit Baltimore, especially, on the route to JHU, we inevitably saw so many homeless people, here and there. His broken heart prevent him from dreaming to go to luxury university like JHU.
I wish you and JHU understand that we all regard JHU is one of top universities, and I encourage my son that even if he will not go to JHU for undergraduate, he could still consider its graduate school in the future. In the mean time, please remove him from your mailing list so that more admission resources can be redirected to other talent kids.
Sincereley Yours,
Cheng
:: Mr Cheng 12:43 AM [+] ::
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