Making it through college is hard but getting into college is even harder. Your grades, SAT/ACT scores, extracurriculars, entrance essays. The workload to get in is grueling and it's a waiting game to find out if you were accepted or not. But there are others who are above the hierarchy that try to cheat the system. In America, you have to have connections and money to make it to the top and get in the higher up. But the antics of the elite will be brought to the light and the consequences will be brought to justice.
Recently, there was a national scandal involving the elite parents bribing college coaches, admission coordinators, SAT/ACT proctors, and university representatives to get their average and below average children in the top colleges in the country such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and USC just to name a few. Some parents paid from $15,000 to $6 million through fraudulent charity donations run by a monetary mastermind who has been behind this scam for over seven years.
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Now as another student, I wasn't surprised by this. The system was always never going to be in favor of the minority. Whether it be race, demographic, We have to work ten times as hard as our white counterparts only to earn half of much. It's more of a struggle getting into college just as much as it is to stay in it. We restricted to going to public schools while the upper education system excludes us from taking part in better education. We're required to take multiple standardized tests in order to weed out the people they want to attend these colleges. All while parents and children work tirelessly to pay for attending college. The wealthy are out here abusing their power just so they can say their child(ren) attend a good and elite university all while their children don't really want to go to college. So yeah, I was pissed off. I remembered all the stress from taking SAT's, filling out applications to universities that only accepted a fifth of their applicants, working part-time to pay the rest of my tuition and have money to support myself. I've seen parents be angered more by this story because they've gone through this process and they've seen their own kids have to endure the increasing challenge of getting into college.
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Now, these people who thought they could cheat a system that's already in their favor are now receiving punishment for what they've done. The F.B.I has arrested over fifty people involved in the scandal, including thirty-two parents that made payments to the fake charity. They'll be paying fines and endure jail time for illegal bribes and tax fraud as well as multiple lawsuits from student applicants, parents, and school board officials.
The lesson from this whole scandal is that cheaters never prosper as always and hard work pays off. Getting where you want to be in life is done by being honest and working your tail off. Patience is a virtue and your time of success will come.
