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Actresses and Business Leaders Charged in College Admissions Bribery Scandal
Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people on Tuesday in a major college admission scandal that involved wealthy parents, including Hollywood celebrities and prominent business leaders, paying bribes to get their children into elite American universities.
Thirty-three parents were charged in the case. Also implicated were top college coaches, who were accused of accepting millions of dollars to help admit students to Wake Forest, Yale, Stanford, the University of Southern California and other schools, regardless of their academic or sports ability, officials said. Along with the Hollywood stars Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, those charged included prominent business leaders, a fashion designer and a top lawyer, officials said.
The case unveiled Tuesday was stunning in its breadth and audacity. It was the Justice Department's largest ever college admissions prosecution, a sprawling investigation that involved 200 agents nationwide and resulted in charges against 50 people in six states. The charges also underscored how college admissions have become so cutthroat and competitive that some have sought to break the rules. The authorities say the parents of some of the nation's wealthiest and most privileged students sought to buy spots for their children at top universities, not only cheating the system, but potentially cheating other hard-working students out of a chance at a college education.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 13 2019, @05:03PM (6 children)
Do schools only think in the short term?
If they engage in admissions and graduation policies that are not based on academic merit, it ultimately devalues the meaning of their diploma.
Imagine a business school that graduates a future president. It makes them look good.
Imagine a business school that graduates a future president who cannot read, write, speak in coherent sentences, think through consequences of ideas, and cannot process ideas or concepts above an adolescent level at best. How does that make them look? Was daddy's money worth it?
Imagine this on a larger scale. At some point employers realize that that degree might not mean what it once meant. So they need elaborate puzzles and IQ tests to weed out the pozers (of which there are many) from the real candidates (of which there may be few, and with poor social skills).
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @05:58PM
You've actually got the history on this backwards. The "credential inflation" crisis can actually be laid at the foot of a 1970 Supreme Court decision against Duke Power Co.
Griggs v. Duke Power Co. [wikipedia.org]
What you're positing is what we used to have, before it was declared racist and exclusionary. So now every office job requires a Bachelor's Degree instead.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday March 13 2019, @06:21PM (3 children)
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania [wikipedia.org]
endowment : 1.289 Billion dollars.
Looks like they may survive the shame of 45.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 13 2019, @06:35PM
Sad but true.
But some of that shame might also rub off.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @07:33PM (1 child)
~20 years back, an MBA seemed like the ticket to corporate advancement. I had considered going for an MBA to get out of the IT dungeons, but ended up getting a MS instead. Glad that I did, but I'm hearing that MBA graduates have a difficult time getting non-dead-end jobs; that the only jobs with prospects now demand real additional skill like accounting, or even IT experience.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday March 13 2019, @07:41PM
There are quite a few high-6 to 7-figure jobs that will not be open to you if you don't have an MBA on your resume.
It might not be right, but it's a fact.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @07:24PM
We all knew Baby Bush got into Yale and Harvard on his academic strengths...
But the reputation of those schools hasn't suffered. That's because it doesn't matter what you know, but whom you know. And you get to know a lot of powerful people if you go to ivy league schools.