Off of my normal lighthearted postings. Concerning this University admission crisis. No University has been accused as complicit in this scheme. But, from my recent experience in dealing with college entrances, they set themselves up for this to happen a long time ago.
I was under the delusion that upper education was a simple business exchange, I give you money, you give me an education. If I had a lot of money, that credential will have a prestigious name on it. Is it fair, no, but I cannot give a car dealership enough money for a Lamborghini either.
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I was aghast at the information that upper education would require for admission. Things that had no bearing on learning and education like what social clubs did you join? What events did you participate in? It finally hit me what their business model truly is. They do not want to educate students, they want to create alumni. Rich graduates that can donate on regular basis.
The signs were all around me, but I was ignoring them. My wife gets regular requests for cash at least seasonally. (The Navy doesn't send me letters for fund raising the latest destroyer) I was denied a course once that I was willing to pay cash for, but did not meet their requirements. Life experience didn't matter.
With this change in the business model, which happened many decades ago, the colleges left the path into madness. And set themselves up for the fraudulent activity now being reported. Parents paying professionals to create fake histories of their children, so they can have the best credentials life has to offer. This probably started as simple exaggerations in the past, but the arms race kept scaling up the lies to photo shopped entries for participation's that never occurred, along with forged corroborations.
I found it interesting to read, that the colleges "Don’t have consensus in the United States about what is a fair system of selection." Perhaps they should require their admission people to take courses in ethics.
