Kevin Carey, author of The End of College, the NY Times' Upshot Blog.❝ The celebrities and C.E.O.s arrested in this week’s college bribery scandal were charged with paying up to $1.2 million for guaranteed admission to elite universities. And of course there’s a much larger and mostly legal system whereby rich people pull strings, hire consultants and make enormous tax-deductible donations, all in the hopes of improving their children’s college chances.
Yet academic research suggests that these efforts are mostly a waste of money, and that the seized opportunities would have actually helped other students much more … [NYTimes.com]
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