Buying your Kid's Way into College.

[ach60]

Used to be you had to buy or build a Building to get your Kid into College.
I never would have thought about buying off the Badminton Coach !
But I was thinking about how my Dad would react to this headline.
My Dad was a Stand Up Guy, he paid for all 5 of us kids to go to College.
At one Point he was paying for Three Kids in College at ONCE!
My Dad wouldn't have gone for it, because he was cheap
Just Kidding Dad.
But Dad's question would have been:
If you can't get into the school honestly,
what makes you think you'll have the grades to stay in school honestly.
OR DO YOU INTEND TO CHEAT YOUR WHOLE LIFE !
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Al

[skills@eurocarsplus]

I think it happens more than people think. sad...as it takes away from the people that work hard to get in.

and fwiw....I don't know that paying huge $$ for an education is money well spent anymore. depending on what you want to do, community college seems to be just as good. my brother and cousin took that road...both make over 100k/yr and have no debt.

on the flip side I suppose they are "elite" colleges for "elite" people. I guess they have the means to do it. it kind of shows how stupid all parties involved really are. I think if I had that kind of $$ and my kid was really that stupid, I had to buy their way in I would have used the $$ to buy them a house and gave them the boot
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[windfish]

"Most of the parents paid at least $200,000, but some spent up to $6.5 million to guarantee their children admission to top universities, authorities said."
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-cheating-scandal-parent-la-20190314-story.html

These kids and parents are living in a different world than the vast majority of us.
I suspect that their degrees really don't matter, it's just something they want/are expected to have so their parents bought it for them.
Skimmed a couple articles and didn't see what program these kids were applying for, but presumably something on the lower difficulty level.
So once they were in just being a mediocre student was enough, and even the bottom ranked graduates get to say they graduated from Yale etc.

[nsracing]

At least they had to pay to get in. MOst times you just have to be right color individual to get in. No test scores required.

[Dwayne1m]

Money influences many things so I don't know why people are so shocked over this.

[oprn]

Corruption should shock everyone! Or is our society so lacking in moral fiber now that anything it takes to get what you want fair game?

Are we not teaching/conditioning our youth to become cheats, con men, thieves, crooks, and thugs by doing this?

Is dishonesty really the best policy?

[finster]

I'm reminded of this comedy sketch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlJyrMZC4pM

'integrity, that's a valuable thing and I'm willing to pay for it!'
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[Manfred58sc]

I taught ( briefly) at a major state university and got called into the deans office to hear how important the " children of alumni" were to funding ( especially the football team ). I had correctly graded ( they did not pass ) a mid term exam of a semi-blue blood. The message was clear, let them re-take the exam so they pass. Colleges and Universities are corrupt to the core, that is why I left that environment 30 years ago.
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[gt1953]

Cheating scandal now going to prep schools. Our child went to community college and now is making 150K. I do hope that parents whom children were not admitted get together with a class action situation.
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[Glenn]

My son went to one of the best state schools in the state. At a visit his senior year in high school he was told that there's 10,000 applicants for 1800 seats. So a 95 average along isn't enough, you need something to stand out of the crowd. Kids were told that if they didn't get in the first time they should apply for second semester since a number of seats open up due to drop outs.

Needless to say he graduated with way more credits than needed. He went to get his masters from Colombia.

For "normal" people if you're not up to the task, they system will grind you down. But for the "privileged", they somehow have door opened even though they never did the hard work.

In the age of being famous for being famous and having your entire families success based on a sex tape that was released do you expect less?

That's OK because money doesn't buy happiness and i know both of my children are self made and hard working and will pass those attributes on to their children.

I and my children don't base our value on the amount of money we have, but on our character and the way we live our lives.
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[Cusser]

We saw parents who bought their daughters spots on the varsity HS softball team.

My kids each had 2 scholarships to in-state universities, covered about half. My youngest got a "C" in accelerated English (apparently a "C" there did not count as a "B"), so she didn't get the full in-state college ride offered than; I was pi$$ed because English is her first language. Anyway, now she's a mechanical engineer with the company rated 3rd best in the world to work for.

When I interviewed for medical school there were 81 spots; 80% of the applicants were guys, but medical school was holding 40 spots for women applicants. I was told to:
keep applying
take graduate school courses
volunteer in the medical field
choose a parwent who was a physician

My optometrist did not do well enough to get admitted to Optometry School as his father had done; father got some strings pulled to get son admitted there.
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[Dave]

I understand there are some past President's daughters, one, named Chelsea, who is at Stanford, and another one, with the last name of Obama, going to Yale...Hmmmm...
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