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The Education Scandal That's Bigger Than Varsity Blues

Rich kids are enrolled in college at three times the rate of poor kids.
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It’s hard to snatch attention from the jaws of intrigue, and Varsity Blues had it all. There were fake SAT scores, a shady deal maker, and wealthy parents eager to lay waste to anything standing in front of their children on the road to a selective college—the vaunted status symbols that they are. This exposes the gritty underbelly ofa common refrain went.

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