They are really eating their own. Colleges must be quaking in their boots. What next, require athletes to actually make it in on their grades and SAT’s?
Thet should end Affirmative Action while they are at it.
This will go Nowhere, All the Liberals do it, even at Private Elementary and High Schools.
You setup a NonProfit out of your house for the education of your Minor Child, your Non Profit makes a Charitable Contribution to the Private School you want your kid to go to, the School then grants your child an honorarium of FREE ADMISSION as a result of your TAX DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTION!!
And the best part is for last, Your NON PROFIT CHARITY is headquartered at your Personal Residence allowing you to be EXEMPT from Property Taxes.
In SoCal this is Commonplace.
US Dept of Education still creating corruption and chaos, and tacitly promoting leftists and progressivism in education
shut it down.
Translation: “Quick we need to close this quick before someone looks into how Congress gets their idiot children into Yale, Harvard and Stanford”
This for our Oregon “Senator” who lives in NEW YORK. Wonder where his kids go to school...they should be near college age now.
What’s the difference?
Parent’s bribing universities to get their kids admitted.
Wealthy buying wings for hospitals to get the best care.
Lobbyists bribing politicians for influence.
So, they change the rules. They just find new ways around them. It’s always about the money, power, influence.
Parent’s money also subsidizes Spring Breaks - I sure hope it is not college loan programs paying for this. As a former employment manager I don’t see anyone in these photos I would consider for hire. How about you??
<wHy bother? If the kid can’t hack it, he’ll flunk out soon anyway. If he’s got the smarts to do well in college, how does it hurt anyone else if his parents buy him a seat in a classroom? After all,the college can use the money for a scholarship for some poor by brainy kid.
This is what Nationalized Healthcare would be run. The elites would have ways in, you would be waiting for your number to come up.
761 families are involved in the current scandal, just to get their kids into the right college/university. Imagine when tuition is free, certian universities will still be very difficult to get into and with government oversight, mayhem and birbery will flourish.
It looks like they are just looking for a way to take away MY tax deductions.
Just one more way the dems are screwing it up for the people who are really paying for college.
Yeah, regular folks like me.
Why not just punish the perps?????
We don't need a law. What we need is to end the privileges of the out-of-control elite that has destroyed the nation.
Disagree somewhat. Nothing wrong with donating to a college. A donation is one thing but bribery is another. Admissions should not give winks and nods to legacies or donations.
That’s easily said but hard to enforce when they don’t limit admissions to HS grades and SATs. Just because Dante is great at football doesn’t mean he’s college material. Just because Tiffany’s daddy gave the college $1M, doesn’t mean she has the smarts to find or care about finding her Eng 101 classroom. The same goes for Jose who gets a full ride scholarship just because he’s here illegally or that Mohammed gets to take away a desk from a US citizen just because he’s paying higher out of state (country) tuition.
There will be problem children admitted no matter the criteria but if colleges would drop the vanity letters and stick with GPA and SATs (and I hate SATs), they’d have more students who want a college education. Deport the illegals. End student visas. Tell the great HS athletes to try out for the pros. And drop the silly courses.
“Higher Education” is one of the biggest scams on the planet. Put a kid $200K in debt and teach them no skills to give them a chance to pay it back.
While this sounds good people are very ingenuous and a provision such as this is easy to subvert: Suitable timing of the donation and a verbal agreement.
Hear! Hear!
We need a system that allows people to learn in a manner that works best for them - and then award degrees on the basis of universal testing focused on the subject area for the degree they are seeking. Cheating on those exams should be a felony, and the questions for those exams would have to be chosen randomly, for each, test, from a pool of questions submitted by people from multiple different backgrounds involved in that field (i.e., not written by Harvard, Yale, or Princeton faculty - etc.). That way colleges/universities would have to teach the subject - not be a prep course for the exam. These would need to be multi-day examinations - covering all major aspects of a field of study.
You would be eligible to take the examination whether you studied mostly online or at Harvard, etc. You would need to show documentation that you actually trained for that particular field, as a prerequisite to taking the exam - but it wouldn't have to be ‘classic’ training. Let's say you worked at an architecture firm for 4 years as an understudy, and took online classes in addition - you would qualify to take the architecture exam.
The exam results would be published for everyone to see, not with the scores of each individual, but the scores listed from each university, each online course, etc., so that people could compare the quality of their education from institution to institution to non-traditional (and likely much cheaper) educational processes.
Why not just eliminate the Tax Deduction for donating to Big College?
Why link it to when someone’s Kid might be attending?