An Underhanded, If Legal, Scheme to Get Financial Aid
When families try to game higher education, the neediest students suffer the most.
As college admissions become more competitive, some families with means seem to be turning to underhanded methods of getting their kids into schools. For instance, the wealthy parents involved in the Varsity Blues admissions scandal earlier this year were charged with fraudulently boosting their children’s applications by obtaining fake athletics profiles and getting ringers to take their kids’ standardized tests, among other spread rumors about other students so their children might seem better in comparison. Now a new scheme described by ProPublicaand involves families seemingly machinating to get an unfair leg up in paying for a coveted seat at a university.
