Question

In light of the recent college admissions scandal please answer the following questions:

1. What legal and ethical laws have been broken by the parents, children, school officials, and others involved.

2. Would your ACT/SAT test results be undermined or affected by others cheating on the test? Why or why not?

3. Would someone denied admission by one of these schools have a cause of action to sue? If so, who would they sue?

4. What are the long-term implications, if any, from this scandal?

Answer 1

The College admissions Scandal happened during 2011-2019 in United States under which a person Called "William Rick Singer", a college admissions counselor and organizer of the scheme, who used part of the money to fraudulently inflate student test scores and to bribe college officials.

A total of 50 people have been charged in the investigations. This number includes 33 parents of college applicants and 11 named collegiate coaches or athletic administrators from eight universities.Three additional universities are involved, but no staff members from those schools have been directly named or implicated

1. First off Education is a boon, the ethical and legal laws are broken by parents by giving an elite or encouraged the officals to get their Child admitted in a good college by paying Money. The parents who are literate involved in a Bribary by paying Millions forgetting the fact that education/Knowlege cannot be purchased over night. The parties involved in the scandal forgot that Knowlege is divine and they laid a path by encouraging the officials with bribe running the education system as a Business for earning money through illegal means. Education is not what you learned, but it is how you behave.

Right to education is a Fundamental Right for every citizen, so for this reason the Government is implementing measures for fair education system. The economic development of a country depends on the literacy rate. It is fascinating that how a developed country like United States involved in this bribary which is a Route cause for other Frauds.

2. I would definitely ACT on the test results be undermined or affected by others cheating on the Test because the parents who can afford the bribe can get good number of scores for their children by paying Bribe

Here, the real efforts of the individuals who are working hard for their education is not known as the scores depends on the bride the officals get. If an individual pays a good bride they are rewarded with better Scores.

3. The denied admission by one of these schools have a cause of no action to sue as all the parties involved in the Scandal are doing business. There is no use to Sue as all are Bribed including the officials, Children, schools and Parents.

Both aggrieved students and the federal and state governments could bring suit against Singer’s organizations and even move to shut them down. However, the class action suits being filed by students who were refused admission by the universities are perhaps a stretch. Proving that all the members of large groups of students were refused admission because of the alleged favoritism and payouts would be difficult to prove. A complication of such civil suits might be that courts would be reluctant to wade into something which could open the door to floods of suits in the future challenging not only this kind of scandalous behavior and the quiet advantages given to the children of big donors (i.e., “legacy admissions”), but also potential suits from aggrieved parents who might believe, for whatever reason, that a school should have accepted their child. The courts hardly want to become substitute admissions offices for higher education institutions.

4. Here are the long-term implications from the College Admission Scandal

• Private school reputation takes a hit. Private schools are already under fire due to a number of reasons like outrageous tuition, student body is much wealthier than the overall US demographic, Rumors and now facts of buying your way in, affirmative action, and more.
• Public school reputation grows. Notice how the vast majority of admission bribery cases occurred at private universities. Some argue this is because there are many more prestigious private universities than public ones. However, there are still plenty of prestigious public institutions like Berkeley, UVA, UCLA (named in scandal), UCSD, Michigan, Wisconsin, UNC Chapel Hill, Purdue, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, George Tech, US Military Academy, and William & Mary where it appears somehow much harder to buy your way in. The less public schools are implicated, by default the stronger their reputations grow.
• Affirmative action for the wealthy gets harder to deploy. We learned from the Asian-American lawsuit against Harvard that donor legacy kids have a 10X greater chance of getting into Harvard than a nondonor, nonlegacy kid. The reason why affirmative action for the wealthy is far more egregious than affirmative action based on race is that wealthy people, no matter their race, already receive the best education, the best tutoring, the most stable home environments, and the most amount of access money can buy.
• The angst for all parents is real, but should decrease. Even if you are a famous, rich, white person like William H. Macy, Felicity Huffman or Lori Loughlin, you are not immune to the anxiety and stress of trying to get your kids the best educational environment possible. The famous, rich, white person is competing against even more famous, rich, white people. This constant comparison will never stop until we make it stop.
• Smart, hardworking students get unfairly sullied.Unless the FBI discovers the majority of students at elite universities have parents who buy their way in, it is likely that most students got in through merit. Unfortunately, this college admissions scandal will unfairly paint all elite college students and graduates, especially wealthy ones, with a suspicious eye. It’s the same way affirmative action may discredit an underrepresented minority’s achievements. We must remember that the vast majority of graduates of such schools are highly intelligent, good people

There will be a rise in stealth wealth. Given the college bribery scandal has reignited hatred for the rich, the rich will flaunt their wealth less. Luxury car sales might go down as BMWs are traded in for Hondas. Rich parents will tell their rich kids to stop showing off their wealth over social media. There may even be a surge in luxury home inventory as the rich decide to move out of expensive neighborhoods. Stealth wealth has always been a good idea. As we surpass our 10th year in a bull market, practicing stealth wealth is more important than ever before.

The investigation is ongoing. Several important questions, among others, include:

• How many other individuals, including parents and coaches, may still be indicted?
• What will happen to current students who benefited from this alleged scheme, but were unaware of their parents’ alleged actions?
• Since this alleged scheme dates to 2011, some students may have since graduated and earned degrees based on illicit admissions. What, if anything, will happen to their degrees?
• If these students subsequently earned medical, legal, securities or other professional licenses, what, if anything, will happen to their licenses?
• Were any high schools involved in the alleged scheme?
• What policy changes, if any, will be implemented at those colleges and universities impacted?
• Will Congress or state legislatures impose regulations on college admissions?