Valuetainment - “Stop Doing This BS ESG & DEI CRAP!” - Yale’s ‘Free Tuition’ Move EXPOSED As PR SCAM

00:00:00.000 Yale goes tuition-free for families making below $200,000 a year income.

00:00:07.320 Yale University is going tuition-free for undergraduate families with incomes under $200,000.

00:00:11.960 Following recent moves by peers, including Harvard University, to broaden access,

00:00:16.440 enhanced financial aid will ensure that students from such families will receive need-based scholarship

00:00:22.760 that meet or exceed the cost of tuition.

00:00:25.520 Yale said in a statement Tuesday the changes will take effect into 2026-2027 academic year.

00:00:32.540 We'll also eliminate all expected costs for families with typical assets and incomes below $100,000.

00:00:39.280 Brandon, your thoughts?

00:00:40.660 I mean, it's about time, to be honest.

00:00:43.160 Like, Yale has every benefit in the world in its favor.

00:00:46.560 If I'm not mistaken, I don't believe they're required to pay taxes or certain portions of taxes.

00:00:51.020 Like, I'm from New Haven.

00:00:51.860 It takes up the entire city.

00:00:53.180 The entire city is decrepit because Yale doesn't have to pay taxes to it.

00:00:59.140 So, I mean, the crazy thing is the vast majority of their money doesn't even come from the tuition.

00:01:04.340 So, you would think this would be something that would be floated a long time ago.

00:01:08.480 But instead, you're racking people that their parents make $100,000 a year with $300,000 in debt.

00:01:15.380 So, yeah, no, I think it's great.

00:01:17.660 They still have problems with the way that they take on people.

00:01:20.800 You know, they try to match up the demos to be proportionate with the demographics in society.

00:01:24.940 So, you get people of different races getting in with lower or higher GPA requirements.

00:01:30.600 So, I don't think that's great.

00:01:31.760 I think that could be, like, a blindfold thing where you're not really looking at the gender or the race of somebody.

00:01:36.980 You're still letting them in on merit.

00:01:38.260 So, a lot of things to complain about with Yale.

00:01:40.600 But, no, I think this is good.

00:01:41.880 I still think there's more for improvement.

00:01:44.320 So, Tom.

00:01:45.720 So, I have a little bit of a contrarian view on this.

00:01:49.420 I'm a little skeptical because Harvard and Princeton did the same thing very, very recently.

00:01:54.760 I was seeing numbers over the last six months that Yale, Harvard, Princeton, MIT were taking in a larger percent of foreign students from wealthy families around the world who could pay full boat, meaning full price for everything.

00:02:13.240 Sure.

00:02:13.480 Number one.

00:02:15.600 Number two, Yale was also lost lawsuit at the federal level on manipulating admissions and being racially discriminated, having racial discrimination built into their intentional model.

00:02:30.220 Some people would call it an algorithm.

00:02:31.860 It was intentional.

00:02:32.500 And it was Asian students and families that – it came from Asian-Americans that said, hey, you know, we are being deprioritized and you're doing this wrong.

00:02:43.780 I'm all the way to the Supreme Court.

00:02:44.940 Yale lost.

00:02:46.000 And there's another suit that went up halfway and Yale won.

00:02:50.160 But I think that there's a reaction happening in the Ivy League.

00:02:53.060 And I think this is potentially window dressing compared to who is actually paying because I don't think the Ivy Leagues anytime soon are going to stop the way they've been playing the game.

00:03:07.560 There have been some suits.

00:03:08.740 There have been some tripwires.

00:03:10.080 But I don't think they're stopping.

00:03:11.760 And I think this is – I think this is a bit of PR compared to what we're seeing on the amount of people they're admitting and what they're paying.

00:03:20.100 Yeah, so it's interesting.

00:03:23.080 If I want to be a devil's advocate and kind of ask the question about the 600,000 students that the president said is coming from China, and I think it was doing an interview with Laura Ingram, which is like, we don't need 600,000.

00:03:34.200 No, we do need it.

00:03:34.900 We do need the 600,000.

00:03:36.540 No, we don't.

00:03:38.200 It's the 600,000 figure, Rob.

00:03:40.760 Can you pull up to see when they're looking at those numbers coming through?

00:03:44.720 Because if you do the math, what do you want to do the average number on the top?

00:03:48.560 600,000 times what?

00:03:50.820 Tuition per year.

00:03:52.260 Oh, I can tell you what it is right now.

00:03:55.140 I'm all in at Rice at 90 a year.

00:03:58.780 Stop it, Tom.

00:04:00.360 Tuition and on-campus housing.

00:04:02.840 It's 90K a year.

00:04:04.880 So what average do we want to take?

00:04:07.080 If these 600,000 Chinese students are coming here over the next however many years, the announcement was August of 2025.

00:04:14.180 I don't know when it's going to start.

00:04:15.220 Ivy League average is 67,000, which they publish.

00:04:18.520 But there's another 20 in there for the dorm plan.

00:04:21.620 But give me the average.

00:04:22.160 Are they all going to go to Ivy or are they going to go to different universities?

00:04:24.820 It's not all Ivy, right?

00:04:25.800 So take the average of all of it.

00:04:27.240 75.

00:04:28.020 You want to do 75? 0.99

00:04:29.940 Damn. 0.99

00:04:30.800 Yeah, it's probably still 60. 0.99

00:04:32.440 I don't think you can go to the University of Michigan with the dorm plan in Michigan for less than 60.

00:04:36.400 If you take 600,000 at 50K, do you know how much it is per year to universities?

00:04:41.820 30 billion in revenue.

00:04:43.500 It's a B.

00:04:44.260 If it's 75K, it's 45 billion in revenue per year.

00:04:51.260 Then do that times four.

00:04:53.000 That's $300 billion going into the college system. 0.95

00:04:56.920 So do you think devil's advocate saying you sue these schools, you publicly put them in their place, stop doing this BS, ESG, DEI crap that you're doing. 0.95

00:05:10.680 Stop playing these games you got going on here. 0.97

00:05:13.240 Get back to education.

00:05:14.820 I don't want to do this woke stuff anymore.

00:05:16.940 And guess what?

00:05:18.160 Pay the fees.

00:05:19.060 Pay the fines on the back end.

00:05:21.140 I'm going to bring you $300 billion over the next five to 10 years.

00:05:25.780 Tom, do you know what I'm saying?

00:05:27.180 Yep, I do.

00:05:28.220 So you're saying that could be the play?

00:05:30.940 I mean, I'm sorry.

00:05:32.960 I'm diluted because $300 billion just doesn't feel like a lot anymore because that's like one Ukraine payment.

00:05:38.320 It's not a lot of money to you.

00:05:39.880 It's not a lot of money to the government.

00:05:41.580 It's a lot of money going to universities.

00:05:43.940 Is it, though?

00:05:45.080 I mean, split up by all the universities?

00:05:46.660 Like, what percentage of it's going to go to the top universities?

00:05:50.580 Probably at least 50% of the top universities.

00:05:52.700 I don't know if it's going to be 50%, but let's say 20%.

00:05:54.940 Okay.

00:05:55.500 What's 20% of $300 billion?

00:05:58.120 $60 billion.

00:05:58.700 Yeah, $60 billion.

00:05:59.280 Still a lot of money.

00:06:00.220 Yeah.

00:06:00.620 $60 billion is still a lot of money over the next few years.

00:06:02.820 Enough to change your entire initiative, though?

00:06:04.500 I don't know if it's an entire initiative.

00:06:07.180 You have to realize the part when I watch where Trump is at with bringing talent in from other places.

00:06:14.400 Like, you know, he put all these restrictions of where people can come from, but he didn't put it on people that are coming from India.

00:06:21.500 Why not?

00:06:22.360 You want to be friends with India.

00:06:23.220 Do you want to be friends with India, or do you want to make sure your big AI technology companies that rely on those engineers coming from IIT, you need that.

00:06:32.440 It is a very technical, sensitive, complicated topic that has people on the same side of the aisle fighting each other on this one topic.

00:06:42.460 Make sense?

00:06:43.020 Yeah, that's a good point.

00:06:43.520 And I don't know what's going to happen with it.

00:06:44.760 I don't know the ideas behind it.

00:06:45.900 Do you have any thoughts on this?

00:06:46.740 Well, I think the value of a higher education is dropping, and I think that's what you see as a result.

00:06:55.220 You know, they have to lower their price.

00:06:56.740 People aren't valuing the education as much as they used to.

00:07:02.320 Before, it was you had to go here, and if you're going to go there, you go to these Ivy League schools.

00:07:06.580 Well, people realize you do not need a degree anymore to be successful, period.

00:07:13.820 And so they have no choice but to lower their fees.

00:07:16.200 And then they turn it into a PR stunt to act like they're finally trying to help people.

00:07:20.540 They're not trying to help anybody, or they'd change the curriculum, not the pricing.

00:07:24.020 And not only that, I think the government should provide education for free if we really wanted to empower our country.

00:07:29.820 You know, education should be free for qualified individuals, period.

00:07:32.960 And I don't care where you go.

00:07:34.300 Like, it should just be free.

00:07:35.400 I want to produce badass individuals. 0.90

00:07:38.940 And, you know, we're quick to give out money, and then people stand in line at Louis Vuitton.

00:07:43.920 You know, during COVID, like, these stores, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, there was lines around the block for people wanting in there.

00:07:53.120 It was ridiculous.

00:07:53.920 So I think Yale and Harvard and any other Ivy League school that is, you know, making a claim that they're starting to try and help those less fortunate, 0.92

00:08:03.680 I think that's nonsense.

00:08:04.680 I think it's PR, and I think they realize their value is dropping.

00:08:09.700 Harvard's International.

00:08:10.500 Do you know the program Florida has?

00:08:12.620 What is it called, Tom?

00:08:13.500 Bright Future?

00:08:14.160 Oh, Bright Future, the state of Florida.

00:08:15.720 Yeah.

00:08:16.000 Can you unpack that to Brad on how Florida works?

00:08:18.200 So in the state of Florida, if you've lived here for a certain number of years, and your child has a 3.0, 3.2, 3.5,

00:08:25.940 and you've been paying property taxes, income taxes, license plate taxes, thank you very much for raising a great child, Brad.

00:08:33.400 You can go to school for free.

00:08:35.340 University of Florida, Florida State, FIU, UCF, any of the schools that state tax dollars go to support under the Bright Futures program,

00:08:43.100 because you've lived here in Florida, and you've raised an exemplary student, your education's free for that child.

00:08:48.820 That's pretty impressive.

00:08:50.080 It's called the Bright Futures program in Florida.

00:08:52.180 Yeah, I think it's like a 3.5 GPA and a 13.50 SATs.

00:08:56.240 Some number is, okay, there it is.

00:08:57.800 What does it say?

00:08:58.880 16 high school credits with a three and a half weighted GPA, weighted GPA.

00:09:04.480 And there's different, academic scholar, medallion scholar covers 75%, but here, there's your rate card.

00:09:10.540 How good did your kid do, you know, the discount starts at 50% and goes up.

00:09:15.480 That's impressive.

00:09:16.400 Yeah, it's not bad.

00:09:17.080 What does this make you think?

00:09:18.480 Like, how do you process this information for a guy that lives in Nevada?

00:09:23.040 Well, I would say, you know, that's why I think Florida's residency is increasing, because, you know, some good policies here.

00:09:29.680 I think it's, again, at the end of the day, a result of everything that's going on, the academic route is no longer necessary to succeed.

00:09:42.060 So, again, it's still nice.

00:09:44.240 It's still a checkbox.

00:09:45.680 Your parents still want you to go.

00:09:47.620 But I think if you're going to go to college and pursue a degree, it's either you need it to do the job, or you should really get the value out of it by networking and building relationships.

00:09:57.940 Because at the end of the day, the relationship is more valuable than the education.

00:10:02.560 You're not wrong.

00:10:03.240 I agree.

00:10:03.700 Listen, I'm 47 years old, and I've done okay in business.

00:10:06.180 And my Middle Eastern family still says, but you don't have a college degree.

00:10:11.160 But you know Mary got a college degree. 1.00

00:10:14.580 But you know Jack got a college degree.

00:10:16.860 When are you going to get your degree?

00:10:18.680 I said, Mom, I'm still trying to figure life out, you know, trying to see if this business stuff's going to work out or not.

00:10:23.300 But maybe one day I'll get my act together in my 80s and get a college degree.

00:10:28.900 Who knows, Brad?

00:10:29.580 I've got to get serious about life is what I need to do.

00:10:32.780 By the way, all kidding aside, if I was governor, I'd do one more thing here.

00:10:36.640 And I would take out 80% of the liberal arts classes, and I would replace it with trade school.

00:10:43.260 I love that idea.

00:10:44.180 So if you want to go, guess what?

00:10:46.760 We're not paying for liberal arts degrees.

00:10:49.200 And this is what I would do.

00:10:50.140 Here, you can go learn about heating, air conditioning, and that on the trade side,

00:10:55.640 and take business courses also here at the University of Florida,

00:10:59.500 and go out and start that business and serve the people of Florida the rest of your life.

00:11:04.700 That's a good point.

00:11:05.060 And by the way, you have two trucks today, and if you do it right pretty soon, son, we'll have 10 trucks.

00:11:10.000 I love it.

00:11:10.440 Great idea.

00:11:10.900 What are you going to say, son?

00:11:11.320 I would just call your parents and tell them how many degrees you now have.

00:11:14.840 Yeah.

00:11:15.900 That's what I do.

00:11:16.600 Yeah.

00:11:16.980 I would say I dropped out of high school.

00:11:18.460 Now I've got several PhDs, several MBAs.

00:11:21.560 They're like, how?

00:11:22.400 How'd you do it?

00:11:23.180 I just hired them.

00:11:24.200 Yeah.

00:11:24.600 So at the end of the day, you don't need a degree if you can hire them. 0.90

00:11:27.180 Yeah.

00:11:27.320 It's great.

00:11:28.760 Now, listen, that train left a long time ago for me when I wanted to be a firefighter.

00:11:35.500 And I went to the firefighter place that we had in Granada Hills, and I said, I want to be fired.

00:11:42.520 They said, there's a five-year freeze.

00:11:44.200 I said, well, listen, it's $52,000 a year.

00:11:46.540 He said, there's a five-year freeze.

00:11:48.200 And it was, I went and sold insurance.

00:11:49.960 By the time I got accepted to go be a firefighter, I was already making 100 plus a year.

00:11:53.620 I said, listen, I don't want to be a firefighter.

00:11:55.120 I'm going to be an insurance guy.

00:11:56.220 Obviously, the rest is history.

00:11:58.320 Do any of the firefighters need life insurance?

00:11:59.520 I would have been a firefighter, Tom.

00:12:00.680 30 years walking around in L.A.

00:12:03.160 That's right.

00:12:03.860 And, you know, driving around on my, you know, working the shifts that they have, which, by the way, to anybody that's a firefighter out there, I have tremendous respect for your job.

00:12:13.660 You are very important to any society.

00:12:15.560 It's a very hard job.

00:12:17.060 The stories you see about how many people that get injured or hurt, and if you want to know what movie made me want to be a firefighter, can you guess what my age?

00:12:24.940 The movie was Backdraft.

00:12:27.620 That's right.

00:12:28.120 That was the movie.

00:12:28.860 All right.

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“Stop Doing This BS ESG & DEI CRAP!” - Yale’s ‘Free Tuition’ Move EXPOSED As PR SCAM

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