Help! need donation strategy to ensure admission

tokenadult
Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:05:46 +0000

Donate the money to me and I’ll do my best to influence the admission committee.

Slightly more seriously, I read in a book once (I wish I could remember the name of the book, to cite it properly) that a man insinuated that he had an “in” with the admission committee at Brown. He would say to parents, “I can’t guarantee every case, but for my standard fee of $3,000 I’ll do my best to tip your child’s case with the committee, and if your child doesn’t get in, you’ll get all of your money back.” Then the man proceeded to do NOTHING. (He actually didn’t know anyone on the Brown admission committee.) Some applicants got in to Brown, and he kept their money. Other applicants did not get in, and he returned their money. That’s a pretty good rate of pay for minimal work.