Perspective: I helped get rich kids into elite colleges. Obsessive parents drove me away.
Actor William H. Macy arrives at the federal courthouse in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Fifty people, including Macy's wife, actress Felicity Huffman, were charged in an alleged scheme to bribe college coaches and other insiders to get their children into some of the nation's top schools. Macy was not charged. By Abby Mims Abby Mims is a writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, Ploughshares, The Rumpus and other publications.
Regarding the recent arrests, one prosecutor stated, “There will not be a separate college admissions system for the wealthy.” This is a nice sentiment, but it’s built on an entirely false premise, one I saw again and again during my own time in admissions consulting.
In my more recent years as a college adviser, I worked at a different company with a broader range of students, where this question of “best-fit college” was front and center in our counseling services.
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