The college admissions bribery scandal that shook the country Tuesday morning has sent tremors everywhere from test prep centers, standardized testing administrators, college athletics coaches, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, the Ivy League, college admission offices and, of course, social media.
“If I can make the comparison, there is a front door of getting in where a student just does it on their own, and then there’s a back door where people go to institutional advancement and make large donations, but they’re not guaranteed in,” Singer said in The New York Times report. “And then I created a side door that guaranteed families to get in. So that was what made it very attractive to so many families, is I created a guarantee.
On the other coast, the San Jose Mercury News in California unveiled a plethora of Bay Area residents who’ve been pinpointed for allegedly making bribes to get their children into universities.
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