{"id":1964096,"date":"2023-07-04T15:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T19:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-wants-to-oust-privilege-from-college-admissions-except-for-his-family\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T15:52:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T19:52:13","slug":"joe-biden-wants-to-oust-privilege-from-college-admissions-except-for-his-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-wants-to-oust-privilege-from-college-admissions-except-for-his-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden aims to remove &#8216;privilege&#8217; from college admissions, except for his own kin."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-wants-to-oust-privilege-from-college-admissions-except-for-his-family%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1964096&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>President Biden&#8217;s Personal Connection to College Admissions Controversy<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>President Joe Biden vowed last week that his Department of Education was primed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-wants-to-oust-privilege-from-college-admissions-except-for-his-family\/\" title=\"Biden aims to remove 'privilege' from college admissions, except for his own kin.\">attack unfair college admissions practices<\/a> that favored \u201clegacy\u201d students and those who came from wealthy or powerful families \u2014 but he personally helped at least one member of his own family benefit from those practices.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Following the Supreme Court\u2019s decision <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/chief-justice-roberts-accuses-liberal-justices-of-power-grab-in-affirmative-action-opinion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ending Affirmative Action<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-justice-department-scraps-investigation-into-yales-discriminatory-admissions-process\/\" title=\"Biden Justice Department Scraps Investigation Into Yale\u2019s Discriminatory Admissions Process\">college admissions process<\/a>, Biden promised to look into \u201cpractices like legacy admissions\u201d that he said only served to \u201cexpand privilege instead of opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/joe-biden-wants-to-crack-down-on-privilege-in-education-he-called-upenns-president-to-get-his-granddaughter-in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> published Saturday by the Washington Free Beacon, President Biden was part of a concerted effort in 2018 to pressure the president of the prestigious University of Pennsylvania to accept his granddaughter, despite the school\u2019s 5.9% admissions rate and her less-than-stellar grades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-says-he-wants-to-crack-down-on-privilege-in-education-he-once-called-upenns-president-to-get-his-granddaughter-in\/\" title=\"Biden aims to tackle 'privilege' in education, despite previously seeking favor for his granddaughter at UPenn.\">applied early decision<\/a> to Penn today!!\u201d Maisy Biden reportedly texted her father, Hunter Biden, on October 31 of 2018 \u2014 and then asked just days later if he could provide an \u201cupdate\u201d on the status of her application.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing to try to see [University of Pennsylvania] Pres GUTMANN tomorrow,\u201d Joe Biden texted Hunter on December 13, and two days later he followed up. \u201cHad a great talk with Guttman [sic]. Maisy still in the game for regular acceptance. But must do well in class this period. It\u2019s real. We should talk about tutors etc <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-lockdown-billboard-in-calif-stirs-controversy-as-state-moves-closer-to-reopening-schools\/\" title=\"Anti-lockdown billboard in Calif. stirs controversy as state moves closer to reopening schools\">starting tomorrow<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden relayed the news to Maisy, adding that she could potentially elevate her application if her lacrosse coach were to reach out to the coach at Penn and express her interest in playing there as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also think it would help if you had lax coach talk to their lax coach. Bottom line is that Guttman [sic] made clear that in order for her to explain the 11th grade you had to show improvement in 12th,\u201d Hunter texted on December 15th. \u201cWhich is something I think we would have all liked to know form [sic] the start, but in fairness we were much later in the app process than usual and made it look like we weren\u2019t 100% about Penn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Several months later, Joe Biden got good news from the Dean of Admissions \u2014 they should expect a call from the University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann before the final acceptance results were posted on March 29th, 2019. Maisy Biden started at Penn that fall.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden family\u2019s ties to Gutmann did not begin there, however \u2014 the Penn president had been the one to award then-Vice President Joe Biden with an honorary doctorate in 2013 \u2014 and in 2016, she had met with both Joe and Hunter Biden several times. The Free Beacon\u2019s report did not detail what may have happened in those meetings but did note the timing: approximately one year prior to the university\u2019s Penn Biden Center coming to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>And in July of 2021, President Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-pa-state-wire-europe-germany-government-and-politics-3a4cbb28261b8cc923a854782b9a5502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appointed Gutmann<\/a> to a plum ambassadorship \u2014 in Germany. She was confirmed by the Senate six months later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden pledged to address unfair college admissions practices favoring legacy students and the wealthy. However, he himself assisted a family member in benefiting from these practices. 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