Probably more likely to have gone to traditional elite-college jobs like management consulting and Wall Street, where the endangering of people’s lives would be indirect (e.g. management consultant advises employer to do mass layoffs, or Wall Street banker causes people to lose their savings, where impoverishment leads to people being unable to afford medical bills or whatever).
Since so many top colleges are connected to this, (Stanford, Yale, USC, Georgetown, etc.) and since these schools have tons of money, how much would it cost them to refund the application fees to all applicants who were rejected, because they applied assuming the admissions process was fair, and it was not.
A class action suit against these schools, brought by the hundreds of thousands of students rejected over the years, might get their attention. An enterprising class-action lawyer might be able to comb the results pages of these forums to come up with potential plaintiffs - as there are lots of kids rejected every year from these great schools. I know my humble family spent a couple grand in application fees, and it’d be nice to think about getting some of that back.
The schools would try to argue they were victims, but aren’t they responsible for the actions of their employees?
^ More likely actors or college consultants.
“Sideways, side door. Same difference, right? Obviously this is all MITChris’s fault!”
Please don’t start. Marilee Jones is still hanging around.
Top 5 college admission scandals in the last few years:
https://www.petersons.com/blog/top-five-admissions-scandals-of-the-last-few-years/
@ninakatarina Go into account options and deselect notifications on your post.
Then again, will all of the spam you’re getting, you may miss this message… 
Makes one reconsider what a degree from a “top college” even means anymore.
Like I’ve said, no one should be surprised by any of this. This kind of rigging the admissions game has been going on for years. Can we please get rid of colleges and universities requiring standardized test scores, legacy/donor admissions and this insane infatuation with extra-curricular activities, most of which seem to be had through nepotism anyway.
As a freshman in college, I believe I would have benefited greatly if my high school had taught an economics course – which should have been mandatory for all students to take before graduating – on best methods and techniques of how can the nation’s lower and middle classes best navigate through all of the corruption that appears to be so deeply and systematically embedded in arguably every aspect of the American way of life from corporate America to every level of our government to the college admissions processes, and how to mitigate the damage it causes as it undeniably caters to the privileged upper classes of wealth.
Personally, I don’t believe a mathematical algorithm can be created for this “economic” problem.
Nice delusion.
None of the profiles of the kids listed here would get them anywhere near consulting or wall street.
You know the unfair thing is if some poor family individually intentionally faked and doctored their kid’s application, they probably would get a stiffer sentence than these people who used a broker. Yeap, it always pays to use a middleman to do some dirty work for you.
Giving money to an institution (ostensibly to benefit the institution and not yourself) is a charitable donation.
Giving money to an official at that institution (to benefit the official and yourself) is bribery.
Those people who gave the college a couple million paid for some financially strapped kids to be able to attend the school.
Those people who gave this guy the money paid for a tennis coach to buy a vacation home.
@Muad_dib, I agree. The news oddly makes me not as concerned that my son gets into his first choice. We’ve been on pins & needles for weeks, but now I think it might be for the best if he doesn’t get into the most competitive college.
Makes me want to look at how David’s Mamet’s children got into their colleges, if he thinks fraud is no big deal.
Baruch College is a CUNY (NYC public college in Manhattan).Does this mean someone bribed to get into Baruch?
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@mdphd92
Giving money to a PAC or government official’s campaign or a lobbyist to achieve your goals = free speech
Giving money to a government official to achieve your goals = bribery
Agree @ninakatarina And I wonder if the donations to colleges dry up, how many schools will need to move from need blind to need aware, or how many will not meet 100% of need?
Also, it’s interesting (or ironic) that it’s David Mamet who is defending her. He’s the playwright and director of Oleanna, House of Games, and Sexual Perversity in Chicago, among many other works. Moral ambiguity and deceit are big themes in his work.
Google challenge: Find any kid of a wealthy person, a celebrity or a politician going to a community college or a state directional. Go.