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It can be fraud against other students. Applicants are told that admissions decisions are based on qualifications. Students pay tens of thousands of dollars for
by goodluckchuck 6y ago
It can be fraud against other students. Applicants are told that admissions decisions are based on qualifications. Students pay tens of thousands of dollars for that qualification. They pay $50-100 to apply. Then it turns out that the qualification isn’t real... That admission can simply be purchased. If admissions can be purchased, the the degrees can likely be purchased too. Fraud is a crime.
- brightball 6y agoI feel like this is being over thought. Making a donation to a university is certainly a direct way to apply money to the process, but we already see that through additional factors. You’ve got private K-12 schools that give many people a leg up, but even the best public schools have a similar effect through zoning. You want to get your child into a better public school, you move to a home that’s zoned for it. The homes zoned for the best schools? Well they are more expensive. That’s not even factoring in tutors, SAT prep or even just well educated parents who give their children additional support at home. I tend to agree with the idea that it’s happening no matter what. It’s just a matter of whether we choose to acknowledge it and let it benefit others.
- goodluckchuck 6y agoYou’re literally saying that studying and becoming more qualified is cheating.
- brightball 6y agoI’m saying that financial advantages make those qualifications much easier to obtain.