Re: Entrance Exam cheating scandal
Originally Posted by
tony
That kind of got me too. I thought it'd be easier to buy your way in... I mean, all you had to do to go to Yale/Harvard in the old days was be born into the right family.
One nice feature of this fraud is that they were able to claim their bribe money as charitable donations. Assuming that tax fraud is still a crime, that could be a problem for the people involved (on the flip side, Orange is the New Black: Season 7 could get some new talent.)
One aspect I'd be interested in is how all these kids did in school. If you can get a B average in Harvard despite not making their entrance standards, then maybe their entrance standards don't prove anything.
BTW, I bet a large portion of the essays written for admissions are authored by ghost writers.
My aunt is a teacher at a high end private high school in Rhode Island. She says she often pushes kids to consider elite schools(think Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, etc) that arent Ivy because grade inflation is a huge problem. Says the key stat to look at is what percent of grades given out are A's and that will tell you a lot about the school.
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