Just months after the Varsity Blues college admissions cheating scandal was uncovered, a new scam has been revealed
, journalists have learned that dozens of parents in affluent suburban Chicago have given up legal guardianship of their children – usually in the children’s junior or senior year in high school – to friends or relatives.
Parents who have transferred guardianship for their college-bound children have told reporters that they were following a scheme proposed by Destination College, a college consulting firm that boasts of its"strategies to lower tuition expenses." Most of the parents used two law firms to wiggle through the guardianship loophole that Destination College encouraged– the Rogers Law Group in Deerfield, Illinois and the Kabbe Law Group in Naperville, Illinois.
According to ProPublica Illinois, the Department of Education is now investigating the matter, but already it has suggested that it might be necessary to add the following new language to federal financial aid regulations “If a student enters into a legal guardianship, but continues to receive medical and financial support from their parents, they do not meet the definition of a legal guardianship and are still considered a dependent student.
The Varsity Blues admissions scandal had many culprits, including the institutions that were all too willing to see or hear no evil in their midst. The guardianship ploy is squarely the responsibility of affluent parents who, while they may have broken no laws, were willing to act unethically and gain an advantage to which they had to know they were not eligible.
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