Webloggin » Can’t Afford the Tuition at Yale? Join the Taliban and get a 35 Percent Discount!

Update and Bump: Michelle Malkin is reporting on some rather interesting quotes from the Ivy League Taliban and John Fund continues his excellent series of articles on the shameful events surrounding the admission of a Taliban spokesperson to Yale University. It appears that in justifying its grant of a place to Mr. Hashemi, Yale has cited his approval by the State Department!

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Coat Here is the scenario. You are a hard working American high school student who has overcome the lunacy of what was once called the U.S. education system. Your parents are ecstatic that you have managed to get all A’s, repeatedly made the honor role and have a chance to enter one of the most prestigious Ivy League schools in the United States. You know your chances are slim as the school only admits a lucky 1300 applicants for the graduating class of 2010 but you try anyway.

Then comes the wait, you have done all you could, written essays, taken tests, applied for financial aid. Everything you can imagine; so you wait. Then one day the mail man drops the letter in your mailbox. The same mail box you checked every day for weeks on end. Finally the letter has arrived and you stand there holding it in your trembling hands. It seems so simple and innocuous. You look at the school crest on the outside and realize that the simple subtleties of the envelope belie the stark realities of the life changing letter inside.

You can’t bear to open it yourself so you run into the house where you find your parents toiling away at their weekend chores.

Your excited mom calls your brothers and sisters into the kitchen where all can gather to share in this joyous moment. Mom gives the letter to dad who opens it quickly with his labor worn hands.

He reads aloud.

Dear Jimmy,

We regret to inform you that your place at Yale has been given to a former Top official in the Taliban. Although your credentials were exemplary we feel that the culture of diversity here at this most prestigious University would best be served by allowing an unrepentant Taliban minister who possesses a high school equivalency degree and a fourth grade education the chance to enjoy the benefits of this highly selective educational landmark.

Thank you for your interest in Yale.

Sincerely,
Mr. Richard Shaw
Former Dean of Admissions who has since jumped ship to Stanford

The fictional Jimmy rejection letter story characterizes one of some 19,300 hard working students who will get a very real rejection letter from Yale this year.

Mr. Rahmatullah, the Taliban official with a fourth grade education, will be given a 35% to 40% discount to take classes at the University. He aparrently does not apologize for the Taliban; one of our enemies in the war against terror.

Yale Justifies the Admission with Spin

Helaine Klasky, a Yale spokeswoman, takes the position that Mr. Rahmatullah is not a freshman, merely a student in a program that doesn’t grant degrees but offers participants a 35% to 40% discount on tuition. “We hope that his courses help him understand the broader context for the conflicts that led to the creation of the Taliban and its fall,” she says.

But Yale has yet to explain why a Feb. 24 article in the Yale Herald, a campus weekly, called Mr. Rahmatullah “one of this year’s freshmen” and said the bar for admission to his special program “is set so that potential part-time Yalies” like him “must be as qualified as their full-schedule counterparts.” No retraction of that article has been printed.

Perhaps the elitists have it right after all. Who are we to judge? After all, we’re just a bunch of average Americans who ought to know our place in society. How dare we think that hard work and perseverance would be allowed to compete on an even playing field? That’s diversity for you, Yale style.