March 12, 2019: Bribery Scandal in Admissions to Elite Colleges

 

3/12/19: A $25 million bribery scandal explodes when an array of superrich parents, college admissions “coaches,” and leaders of college athletic teams are shown to have rigged the game. You “won” when you managed to get underqualified children into prestigious universities. 

White House aide Kellyanne Conway couldn’t resist tweeting insult of two mothers, adding, “They worried their daughters are as stupid as their mothers.” 

Critics faulted her for insulting the intelligence of two young college women, noting that not all the children knew cheating was involved, and reminded her that Trump had his own higher-education issues. It didn’t help much when critics pointed out that Jared Kushner was admitted to Harvard the same year his father agreed to donate $2.5 million to the university.

 

At the time, administrators at Jared’s old school expressed surprise, as Daniel Goodin reported: 

“There was no way anybody in the administrative office of the school thought he would on the merits get into Harvard,” a former official at The Frisch School in Paramus, New Jersey, told me. “His GPA did not warrant it, his SAT scores did not warrant it. We thought for sure, there was no way this was going to happen. Then, lo and behold, Jared was accepted. It was a little bit disappointing because there were at the time other kids we thought should really get in on the merits [emphasis added], and they did not.”

 

Joshua Kushner, Jared’s younger brother was admitted to Harvard, two year later. So, good investment, dad?

 

As for parents involved in this latest scandal – which allowed their children to bump out more-deserving children from less affluent families, I think this proves we need more tax cuts for fat cats. 

How else does one pay a bribe of $500,000 to the coach of the USC women’s crew team to accept your daughters as top recruits, despite the inconvenient fact neither had ever actually rowed crew.

The blogger's daughter attended Yale for graduate school.

No one had to be bribed for her to gain admittance.