Translation: “Quick we need to close this quick before someone looks into how Congress gets their idiot children into Yale, Harvard and Stanford”
I assure you, senators do not have to pay any scam artists to generate a fake college application. If the kid's test scores are fairly good and there's been no DUIs or drug issues, any senator's child has a very good chance. Children of representatives - they may need slightly better test scores. ;-)
I assume elected officials get them in NOT by donating their own money, but by reminding the schools that they can call their presidents in for congressional grilling, and can steer tax dollars to or from the colleges, PLUS having the child of an important elected official is a good recruiting tool.
And I am sure they will not make ANY laws that prevent THOSE things.