Varsity Blues
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2019 6:32 am
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/college-ad ... 019-03-12/
Paying for entry to elite colleges isn't really new. If you have a million to donate, your child will probably be accepted. (Of course, the proof will be in the educational pudding that child will make there. If he or she is a fraud, people will know). Cheating on tests has also been commonplace. All it takes is a doctor's note that the child has ADHD, and he'll get extra time to take a test. Paying for prep courses and paying to have surrogates take the tests have also been common. All it takes is cash. However, in this case, the university didn't get a new building or a big donation. The parents wrote the money off as a charitable donation. That's stealing.
The children of the people who did the bribing had all the advantages anyway. The parents could have hired full time tutors. But, they wanted their children to have attended prestigious institutions. Now, their children's reputations are ruined or riddled with suspicion. Their degrees, if they have been awarded, may be rescinded. It's possible that their admissions may be revoked. The colleges might not want to do it, but there are sure to be complaints, if not legal suits, that assert someone's child was not accepted because of a bribe.
The strangest thing is that children who never played sports were claimed to be athletes and accepted as such. There'll have to be a movie about this.
Paying for entry to elite colleges isn't really new. If you have a million to donate, your child will probably be accepted. (Of course, the proof will be in the educational pudding that child will make there. If he or she is a fraud, people will know). Cheating on tests has also been commonplace. All it takes is a doctor's note that the child has ADHD, and he'll get extra time to take a test. Paying for prep courses and paying to have surrogates take the tests have also been common. All it takes is cash. However, in this case, the university didn't get a new building or a big donation. The parents wrote the money off as a charitable donation. That's stealing.
The children of the people who did the bribing had all the advantages anyway. The parents could have hired full time tutors. But, they wanted their children to have attended prestigious institutions. Now, their children's reputations are ruined or riddled with suspicion. Their degrees, if they have been awarded, may be rescinded. It's possible that their admissions may be revoked. The colleges might not want to do it, but there are sure to be complaints, if not legal suits, that assert someone's child was not accepted because of a bribe.
The strangest thing is that children who never played sports were claimed to be athletes and accepted as such. There'll have to be a movie about this.