Every Day Should Be Saturday · Mar 13, 2019
A STORY FROM THE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS SCANDAL
Yesterday, word broke of a major collegiate recruiting scandal - but not the kind we’re used to hearing about around these parts. Hollywood celebrities like Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were placed under arrest after it was discovered they paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to sneak their unqualified children into elite universities or USC.
There were a number of admissions backdoors identified, including the especially scurrilous abuse of testing protocols intended for students with disabilities. But one of the most standout methods involved sneaking students into schools on fraudulent athletics scholarships, for sports they didn’t even play.
