The bribery scandal in college admissions is shocking, but even more disturbing in a practical sense should be how millions of students will get left behind.
Instead of attaching the check for $175 to the application, you staple a check for $1,000,075. Elite tutors get anywhere from $700 to $1,000But forget all that for a moment. Part of income inequality is the recognition that those with money and power frequently buy what they can't earn through merit. However, where does the inequality begin? Few people have millions to become one of the favored. A great many, though, can pay for the SAT prep courses so they can do better.
The outrage here should not be focused on the students who had their way purchased—especially as they generally didn't know. It should be that our system continues to follow the Billy Holliday line,"Them that's got shall get. Them that's not shall lose." As the Bible says in Proverbs 22:7,"The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
It's an old, old pattern and one that we must stop worshiping. It isn't fine when a whole section of the population gets to use what they have to further what they and their children will have and those without aren't even considered. This is a criminal waste of talent and the source of a growing insanity among those who think that their paved path is somehow the same as hard work.
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