When authorities announced the first charges in 2019, it left colleges across the U.S. scrambling to review their own admissions systems, especially where there was overlap with athletics programs. Schools added layers of scrutiny around recruiting, with a sharp eye on lower-profile sports targeted in the scheme, such as water polo and rowing.
Officials at USC said they started reviewing athletic recruits at multiple levels of administration, including by an office of athletics compliance, which also started verifying that recruits actually end up competing. On campus, he said, students from modest means are still far outnumbered by those who went to private schools with access to expensive tutors. Roberts and others have pressed the university to abandon policies that favor wealth, including preferences for the children of alumni, but so far Yale has resisted change.Angel Pérez was the head of admissions at Trinity College in Connecticut when the scandal broke.
Still, he said, the bribery case — along with the country’s racial reckoning and separate legal battles over affirmative action — stirred debate about the fairness of legacy preferences and entrance exams., authorities said their work led to reform. The FBI said colleges reached out asking how they could catch wrongdoing.Massachusetts U.S.
Money will corrupt anyone.
Yeah no shit, the Education Department is too busy going after the union free college program to do much here.
It's so simple, don't break the law and there will be nothing to cry about. Be ethical and always do the right thing.
No different its either you got the $$$$$ or you have the race
Duh
The punishment for this bribes is ridiculous at best!why even bother to waste so much money in defense and prosecutors when the penalty is so minimum. Only in the USA.
When I first read this I thought it was going to be about vaccine mandates.
Money talks & BS walks.
arresting the girl from full house didnt fix college? shocking.
They only wept because they got caught.
The actual takeaway, especially based on the politicians and lawyers they produce, is that the Ivy League schools are not actually worth their supposed premium reputations
Follow the money
He who has the most money at the end of the game - wins. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Meritocracy should be the only guide for admissions.
Ahem…yet SCOTUS conservatives focus is AFFIRMATIVE ACTION! which is minuscule compared to this 🤷🏾♀️
Let's look into network news anchors kids admissions into college.....
College is a racket. Middle class families with kids who have the talent and aptitude to do great things are being charged a criminal price to go to college. The answer isn’t trade schools and everyone becomes a plumber. That’s a simplistic throwaway trope applicable here/there.
Much of the upper admins jobs are judged by the amount of money brought in. Can't act shocked when these outcomes happen.
Because that’s how the universities want it. If they would just be transparent and fair, we wouldn’t have this drama, but that wouldn’t allow them to continue their grand social experiment.
The fact that all the Trumps went to the University of Pennsylvania makes me want to tear up my diploma.
Schools want underserved first generation college students. To pay for them they need billionaire donor class students. Leaving no room for meritocracy. Great history of admissions story from 2005 newyorker
money talks😎