Some of the wrong people appear to be going or not going to college. My mother should have gone, but her mother would not pay a penny of tuition, and student aid wasn’t what it is now.
When I went to high school, my guidance counselor hinted that I wasn’t college material; I applied anyway and was accepted to Rutgers evening division. I went one course at a time and paid cash.
I continued that way for a while, and got a two-year degree, then took a break because of life dynamics, applied to the University of Pennsylvania and got in, and finished my bachelor’s degree there. I paid cash and got tuition refunds at work, but I earned back each cent by doing the work.
So when I heard that celebrity parents like Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin paid to have their children admitted to colleges the illegal way, I was just as shocked as everybody else. It is possible to get in the old-fashioned way, but life has taught us that it deals a bad hand to some folks as well. Some deserving applicants got turned away from good schools because students such as Lori Loughlin’s daughter by designer husband Mossimo, Olivia Jade Giannulli–who appeared on a YouTube video talking about her preference of social media status over classwork–took space they didn’t earn because mum and pop pulled a heist paying off some money grabbing jerks for favors.
If justice were to be served, the convicted parents should have to shell out fines equivalent to the costs to reinstate admissions to some of those students turned away, so they can have the shot they deserve for free. As it stands now, Olivia has lost sponsors, as has her mother, but those future world changers have lost a lot more because they were stepped over by cheaters in a world where education has taken the wrong fork in the road into the town of Corruption City USA. Honesty still counts, and that’s where the law will focus in this instance.
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