'Affirmative action for the rich:' How the privileged legally game the college admissions process

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Wealthy and influential parents routinely use their privilege to game the college admissions process. And it's all perfectly legal.

Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/03/13/affirmative-action-rich-how-elites-legally-game-system/3148618002/.

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Who’s glen took who’s the crook now felicity ?😂😂

Just one more thing for people with no grit to complain about...great.

Happens all the time. That's how John and Ted Kennedy got accepted, despite being rather nondescript students in high school. Their father was rich as hell, and willing to build Harvard a library and an auditorium.

Remember Tanya McDowell? She got 12 yrs for sending her 6 yr old son to Norwalk CT’s Brookside Elementary School while she ‘lived’ in Bridgeport, even though she was homeless. She was convicted of 1st-degree larceny for “stealing“ an education. But, CollegeCheatingScandal

Who is actually surprised by this?

Systemic issue. Reminds me of the business school application process. At least one app asked me to: 1) name all relatives that were school alumni, & 2) list the names & occupations of my parents. Keep in mind that I was in my late 20s & hadn't lived with my parents in ~10 yrs.

There’s no comparison between paying for tutors and private school for your kids and doing what these individuals are alleged to have done.

Pretty much everyone should be gaming every system to the best of their legal ability. It’s called doing your best.

fraud and false information isn't legal

Sort of like a wealthy New York real estate mogul paying off a podiatrist to diagnose their son with bone spurs.

This title is bad, and you should feel bad for it.

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