'The college admissions scandal should prompt broader soul-searching' via PostOpinions
By Editorial Board March 13 at 6:43 PM IT IS downright naive to think wealth and privilege don’t factor into many critical aspects of American life. Among them: who gets to go to what college. But the scope and sheer shamelessness of an elaborate scheme in which some of the country’s richest people allegedly paid bribes to get their children into top U.S. universities is truly mind-boggling.
William Singer, the Palo Alto, Calif., college adviser who pleaded guilty to federal charges for masterminding the scheme and reportedly collected $25 million between 2011 and 2018, told parents he could facilitate their children’s admission to certain universities through what he called the “side door.” The front door, he said in one phone conversation with a parent that was recorded by authorities, “means you get in on your own.
No doubt these parents are outliers in the lengths they were willing to go — and the laws they allegedly were prepared to break — to advantage their children. But the scandal raises broader questions.
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