How the woke college cartel shakes down taxpayers to pay for elite endowments
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Rick Singer was recently sent to prison for helping rich parents buy admission for their kids to elite colleges.
Frederick Hess is the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
Indeed, at elite colleges, the wealthiest applicants routinely purchase what's best understood as an admissions fast pass that includes individualized attention from high-ranking officials, a de facto appeals process should their application be denied on the merits, and the possibility that coaches and administrators will cut corners as needed.
This donations-for-seats racket is no secret. Indeed, the purported guardians of merit, opportunity, and equity at selective universities are laughably open about the fact that donors are buying special consideration. As former Yale president Richard Levin conceded, "We do advise the admissions office about applications coming from the children or grandchildren of significant donors."
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