Bill Ackman Declines to Write Yale Recommendation Letter for Friend’s Daughter
“You wouldn’t ask me to write a letter of recommendation for her admission to Hamas.”
More business leaders need to stand up like this. The point that Bill Ackman makes here is completely valid. Yale has given in to the madness of the pro-Hamas mob.
Ackman writes on Twitter/X:
A friend was asked to write a recommendation for his daughter who is applying to Yale. Worth a read.
Dear ,
I am unwilling to write a letter of recommendation in support of your daughter’s application to Yale. I no longer do that. It is not that I don’t believe that she is qualified, on the contrary it is because I do.
You wouldn’t ask me to write a letter of recommendation for her admission to Hamas. But Yale is no different than Hamas, a cult that abides no disagreement, and a cult certain of its purpose and mission beyond reflection. Yale is potentially even more dangerous. Hamas will be defeated shortly. Yale will continue to send its graduates into positions of power for years.
A recent study at Harvard found that roughly 50% of the students and professors wouldn’t discuss “uncomfortable” topics. An essential life skill is the ability to change your mind. She won’t learn that at any Ivy league school. Their reputations are still so strong that their faculty, staff and graduates all possess the arrogant certainty of religious fanatics.
I am sorry to disappoint you. I wish her the best in her search for a school,
Signed
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A friend was asked to write a recommendation for his daughter who is applying to Yale. Worth a read.
Dear ,
I am unwilling to write a letter of recommendation in support of your daughter's application to Yale. I no longer do that. It is not that I don't believe that…
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) November 12, 2024
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Spot on, dude. Now I see why the babe chose you, not that Pitt fellow.
It would be more effective if he had an alternative to the Ivy+ schools to propose.
Good point.
Really good point.
There are no alternatives to Ivy+ schools.
Really. None. Almost none.
The only path to even a marginally happy future for any U.S. 18-year-old is Ivy+ degree.
You’ve really got Life analyzed. And deciphered. Good on you, mate.
And that whole Leadership thing? Plenty of playtime with balls. supplemented with lots of airplane travel, And also a lot of hotel stays. That other families pay for.
Do not even think about the many, many, many, many, many happily-ever-after success stories that do not include $250,000 Ivy+ schools,
That do not involve playing child games with other 21-year-olds
I’m not sure whether it is widely known n the United States, but most people who are leading happy, productive, successful lives on this planet …… know nothing about you Ivy+
Good grief.
You wouldn’t be an American high school guidance counselor, would you?? Lol lolol lololol ‘Murica👍
It’s a valid suggestion for improvement, If you’re going to close a door, offer to open another one. I don’t consider his original letter to be dickish, but to any enthusiastic parent whose hopes are being dashed, this would further reduce the probability of such an assumption.
“ It’s a valid suggestion for improvement, If you’re going to close a door….”
Are you a child? Ackman isn’t closing any doors.
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“….offer to open another one.”
Are you a child? In what Alterative-Reality-Universe would it even occur to anyone to imagine that Ackman owes this obviously lame, , idiotic family door-opening advice? (which obviously he surely did, privately)
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“… to any enthusiastic parent whose hopes are being dashed….”
Umm, I’m pretty sure this is about the kid. Not the apparently clueless parent’s inappropriate hopes to be able to walk around town wearing “Yale Parent” merchandise.
Do you even realize what you are saying here?
Only a childish parent would even think in those terms.
He really should have suggested Hillsdale. There are others, but I’d start there.
There are options: Trade schools. There are millions of US citizens leading pretty god to very good lives based on the earnings from real jobs: electricians, plumbers, carpenters, accountants, attorneys, police officers, firefighters….. (not an exhaustive list). All manage to do this without an “Ivy+” ticket and secret society membership.
This is not a “nom d’ blog” for Mike Rowe.
While speaking of earnings, it is ridiculous to even place these various “real jobs”…(electricians, plumbers, carpenters, accountants, attorneys, police officers, firefighters) in the same conversation.
How about Hillsdale where she would get a real education.
I’ll be as kind as I can possibly be: If you and your kid are unable to realize that there’s a world of opportunity out there , that has nothing to do with Ivy+ , then you really are to be pitied.
And if you need Bill Ackman to help you see the world as it is in 2024, then you really are to be pitied.
And I’m being kind.
Have you heard? The evidence indicates that the earth, in fact, revolves around the sun.
Have you heard?
It’s not 1924.
It is not 1974
Like it or not.
Deal with it.
Most people who are living happy, successful lives have never even heard of your “Ivy+”
Grow up , mate.
I’m being kind.
/smh
That is 100% correct. However, as a footnote, if your goal is to be a Bill Ackman and get a prestige job at a premier investment bank making a million a year before you are 40, you can’t go to Podunk U. Such firms do not recruit there.
Why are 10% of Yale student loans Non-Performing?
If Yale was so wonderful, why are 1 in 10 unable to earn enough money to pay off their loan?
If 10% of the gasoline you bought last week failed to power your car, that’d be a problem, no?
Especially if the gasoline station advertised itself as somehow “better than”
Postscript—
The 10% number comes from http://www.collegescorecard.Ed.gov
although once the koolaid is sipped, real life data matters not at all. Especially to a certain type of particularly self-involved parent
I think the headline and article are slightly misleading/inaccurate. It wasn’t Bill Ackman who wrote the letter, it was a friend of his according to his post on X.
From The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=363ZAmQEA84&pp=ygUnVGhlIG1hbiB3aG8gc2hvdCBsaWJlcnR5IHZhbGFuY2UgZW5kaW5n
Lolol
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