Over numerous accounts of lying, cheating, and paying off coaches, wealthy and overly-powerful parents have yet again upset the youth of America. The lengths some wealthy parents will go to get their children into competitive American universities were revealed this month when federal prosecutors charged 50 people involved in schemes to buy spots in the freshman classes at Yale, Stanford and other prestigious schools. Students at universities and high schools are up in arms about the situation and many have taken to social media to express their feelings. Many students who attend ivy league schools poured hours of hard work attempting to get that one letter that told them they were accepted, while these other children simply had their parents write a check and bribe a coach.
Thirty-three extremely wealthy parents were charged in the case, including Hollywood celebrities and prominent business leaders, and prosecutors said there could be additional indictments to come. Also implicated were top college athletic coaches, who were accused of accepting millions of dollars to help admit undeserving students to a wide variety of colleges, from the University of Texas at Austin to Wake Forest and Georgetown, by suggesting they were top athletes.
1. Do you think that this scandal could help poor and lower-class students gain spots in schools?
Yes. After such a scandal, colleges are going to be urged to select students soley on athletic and achademic performance rather than economic ranking.
2. What punishments do you think these coaches, parents, and admissions officers should receive?
I think that these coaches and admissions officers should lose their jobs and the parents be fined or jailed for a few years.
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Great job Reed! Great title!
Yes, because this scandal will force colleges to further look at academic and sports ability, rather than looking at the wealth of the person or the person's family. The coaches and admissions officer should be fired unless they had no idea what was going on, and I think that the parents should be fined.
This scandal could help lower-class students to gain spots in schools that they may have not recieved before because these colleges may now feel pressure to accept them specifically on how smart they are. Many of these rich people that bribed their kids' way into college should be in jail or lose their jobs.
Yes i completely agree with you that this scandal can and hopefully will benefit lower class students by making the acceptance based off of academic and/or athletic performance in highschool. This scandal will cause colleges to rehire and re evalute their staff and what students are currently attending and they may make changes
I believe that colleges will now seek for students accelerating in athletics and academics, since they are going to lose students to this case. I think that all coaches, parents, and admissions officers should lose their jobs indefinitely and also pay a fine.
I agree with you one hundred percent that there is not a single doubt that colleges will now seek for students accelerating in athletics and academics, since they are going to lose students to this case. And yes I also agree and think that all coaches, parents, and admissions officers should lose their jobs indefinitely and also pay a fine.
Yes, like you said students will get into colleges based of actual skills. I think getting into colleges because of parents wealth is stupid. Instead of money. I think they should lose their jobs and pay a fine.
I think that because of this scandal, there are going to be more students let into high level college because of how well they do acedemically and/or athletically. I think that the parents paying their kid's way into college should be fined or have to do some sort of community service. The coaches and admissions officers should be forced to apologize for taking money given to them.
You make a very good that because of this scandal, there are going to be more students let into high level college because of how well they do acedemically and/or athletically. I like your thinking on the community service because it would really punish these stuck up celebrities into having to help the people they robbed college positions from
I think it would be harder now to get into any colleges really, because they may change their admission requirements now that that has happened. I think that all people who were a part of it should be fined, and I dont think the kids are going to be going to any colleges any time soon.
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