{"id":35327,"date":"2019-03-14T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T10:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35327"},"modified":"2019-03-14T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T10:22:11","slug":"what-wealthy-parents-do-to-get-their-kids-into-colleges-legally-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35327","title":{"rendered":"What wealthy parents do to get their kids into colleges (legally)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>For many people, the most surprising part about the revelations that wealthy parents \u2014 Hollywood celebrities, fashion designers, CEOs, lawyers and doctors \u2014 paid to get their kids into college by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/12\/us\/college-admission-cheating-scheme\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">cheating on tests and faking athletic records<\/a>, was that these families didn&#8217;t get a leg up through legal channels available to those with money.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Lots of parents throw money at it, that&#8217;s nothing new,&#8221;<strong> <\/strong>says Jill Shulman, who has been working in college admissions as a coach, teacher and evaluator for 20 years. &#8220;Alums will throw a big event when the president comes to town. They&#8217;ll meet with their contacts at the school, they become donors. None of that is new. But the level of this scandal is a symptom of helicopter parenting on steroids.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Admissions based on donations \u2014 while not necessarily illegal \u2014 often aren&#8217;t considered ethical or fair either.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)For many people, the most surprising part about the revelations that wealthy parents \u2014 Hollywood celebrities, fashion designers, CEOs, lawyers and doctors \u2014 paid to get their kids into college by cheating on tests and faking athletic records, was that these families didn&#8217;t get a leg up through legal channels available to those with money.&#8221;Lots&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}