The Celebrity College-Admissions Scheme and Today’s Expectations of Students. By JIM GERAGHTY

The Celebrity College-Admissions Scheme and Today’s Expectations of Students. By JIM GERAGHTY
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-celebrity-college-admissions-scheme-and-todays-expectations-of-students/
Excerpt: Falsifying Ethnicity in College: Elizabeth Warren Was Ahead of Her Time. In 2014, former director of the California labor department Michael Bernick wrote in Time magazine, “whether your degree, for example, is from UCLA or from less prestigious Sonoma State matters far less than your academic performance and the skills you can show employers.” Whether or not Bernick’s assessment is accurate, many Americans parents believe otherwise, as demonstrated by yesterday’s terrifically bizarre scandal involving a couple of Hollywood celebrities and a slew of lesser-known wealthy parents who bought their children admission to schools like Yale, Stanford, Wake Forest, Georgetown, and others — Including UCLA, the example of prestige Bernick selected. As many suspected, just about every part of the college admissions process can be rigged to provide a leg up to those who are wealthy and unethical: bribing athletics coaches, faked learning disabilities, sending students copies of the SAT or ACT ahead of time, proctors correcting answers for students before submitting them for scoring, made-up honors and awards, “staged photographs of their children engaged in athletic activity” and falsifying students’ ethnicities and other biographical details to take advantage of affirmative action. (Elizabeth Warren was just ahead of her time, apparently.)