Harvard admits it was wrong not to accept Steve Schwarzman, What's more, Harvard apologized for the slight.
Tuesday at Bloomberg, there was this:
Steve Schwarzman, the elite rich person fellow benefactor of Blackstone Group LP, said a previous affirmation senior member of Harvard College later let him know it was a mix-up to have rejected him as an undergrad candidate.
"He kept in touch with me a couple of years back saying, 'I figure we got that one wrong,'" Schwarzman said Tuesday in a Bloomberg Television meeting with Erik Schatzker and Stephanie Ruhle in which he described his application. "My number-one decision was Harvard and I didn't get in," Schwarzman said, including that he called the dignitary from his secondary school pay telephone to request that he alter his opinion, which was "similar to dialing God."
Schwarzman, by any measure, is an inconceivably fruitful individual.
He helped to establish one of the biggest organizations in the US, he's worth more than $10 billion, and Wikipedia portrays him as an "American business tycoon and lender."
Schwarzman was in the Skull and Bones society at Yale with previous US President George W. Bramble, and he simply stood out as truly newsworthy by giving $150 million to his institute of matriculation for another understudy focus.
Thus no doubt for a normal individual, a Harvard dismissal is something to give up sooner or later amid school, maybe introduction week at Yale. Alternately perhaps when you get acknowledged to Harvard Business School.
In any case, Schwarzman is no normal individual. Possibly this kind of diligence is the thing that makes him so great at what he does.
He is as yet discussing his one major disappointment: He got rejected from Harvard.
Tuesday at Bloomberg, there was this:
Steve Schwarzman, the elite rich person fellow benefactor of Blackstone Group LP, said a previous affirmation senior member of Harvard College later let him know it was a mix-up to have rejected him as an undergrad candidate.
"He kept in touch with me a couple of years back saying, 'I figure we got that one wrong,'" Schwarzman said Tuesday in a Bloomberg Television meeting with Erik Schatzker and Stephanie Ruhle in which he described his application. "My number-one decision was Harvard and I didn't get in," Schwarzman said, including that he called the dignitary from his secondary school pay telephone to request that he alter his opinion, which was "similar to dialing God."
Schwarzman, by any measure, is an inconceivably fruitful individual.
He helped to establish one of the biggest organizations in the US, he's worth more than $10 billion, and Wikipedia portrays him as an "American business tycoon and lender."
Schwarzman was in the Skull and Bones society at Yale with previous US President George W. Bramble, and he simply stood out as truly newsworthy by giving $150 million to his institute of matriculation for another understudy focus.
Thus no doubt for a normal individual, a Harvard dismissal is something to give up sooner or later amid school, maybe introduction week at Yale. Alternately perhaps when you get acknowledged to Harvard Business School.
In any case, Schwarzman is no normal individual. Possibly this kind of diligence is the thing that makes him so great at what he does.
He is as yet discussing his one major disappointment: He got rejected from Harvard.
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