USA Today wrote:In all, 50 defendants are targeted by the Justice Department in an alleged long-running scheme of parents cheating to get their kids into college.
Officials say parents spent anywhere from $200,000 to $6.5 million to guarantee their children’s admission.
Among those charged include television actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Laughlin.
Coaches at Stanford, USC and Wake Forest were involved.
When I was growing up, there was an expression used for the competence of the wealthy at prestigious Universities: "The Gentleman's 'C'."The expression gives a nod to the fact that certain wealthy students are not at the University to study. Rather, they are there to pick up their diploma and make the social networking contacts that will enable them to skate through life.
I know the child of a very wealthy family in San Francisco. Nice girl, she's not dumb but neither is she very bright. All through high school she was tutored, and was required to do community service activities that would look good on a college application. She was groomed and jammed into a school above her abilities, which is not fair to her and certainly not fair to someone less wealthy who would be a much better student.
Maybe Universities should just have 30 admissions reserved for the wealthiest families. Those 30 seats go the highest bidder. Think how many tuitions that would cover for poor students. If people are willing to pay to get their kid into a school, let the poorest kids at that school get the money.
You could have a University built on The Gentleman's 'C'.
