I wonder if they realize that they are wasting their money?
If you analyze this....what they were paying for, was to get their marginally-prepared kid, into a 5-star school, bypassing every gate possible, and then getting them into the sports program, which meant you had extra tutor help and lower expectations by professors.
An example...you are about to wrap up high school while your dad pulls in $5-million a year. High expectations. The whole last three years, zero effort. Parents want you to go onto USC. Your grades marginally work for entry. But you get a water-polo scholarship (even though you can’t swim). You show up, and they introduce you to the guy who is ensuring the professors go easy on you. Four years of this, and you get a degree from the college. You can marginally cut it.
Not to say it happened, but I wonder about AOC, and if her parents did the same thing with her...herding her into an economics degree, and making sure the college ‘gifted’ her the degree in the end. I’d even go back and wonder this about George Bush.
Only liberals will be dumb enough to commit a felony just to have what should be a felony (Academic misconduct/fraud) perpetrated upon themselves!