Paying to Get Into College?
Lauren Render
Last March, many celebrities were caught for paying colleges to get their kids accepted into that school. It was a scandal that shocked many people. Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were the first to be accused, along with 33 other parents. Lori Loughlin paid half a million dollars for her daughter, Olivia Jade, to go to USC. Not only did she pay, she lied about her daughter being on her high school rowing team. Felicity Huffman, a famous actress, paid $15,000 to get a college counselor to cheat the SAT system by correcting her wrong answers for her oldest daughter.
Alina Summers, a sophomore at Hillgrove High School, talked about her opinion on this scandal. “I think jail time is reasonable for the parents, and they do not deserve to not have any consequences.” With their parents paying to get them into that specific school, did they ever think about how that made their child feel? Summers said, “I think that the kids feel that they are unworthy and not able to accomplish things on their own.” Some say that the parents did this without their kids having any clue to what they were doing: “Um, I think that it depends on the case. I feel like most of the time they would know, but sometimes they would not.” Being famous will come with bigger consequences, like their reputation: “I think that it will ruin their credibility and also they will probably not have as good of a reputation along with job opportunities.”
Ellie Flynn, a student at Hillgrove High School, shared what she thought about this topic: “Um, yes I do think they deserve to go to jail. They committed a crime that in some sort, they knew was wrong.” Not only will this affect the family paying, it will affect everyone who wished to go to that certain college. “People who actually work hard in school and try to get into a good college themselves, could have been the one whose spot was taken, so it affects them in a bad way.” To many people, paying a school makes the college look bad because there is a very high chance that they knew. Flynn continued to say, “It will look bad on the colleges to some people because it looks like oh, they want money and it does not matter, but others have an opposite opinion.”
Thinking about this scandal and the people involved can affect many more families than they even thought about. It is unfair to those who work to get into the school they hope to go to. Those who committed the crimes are now facing consequences that are well deserved.
Alina Summers, a sophomore at Hillgrove High School, talked about her opinion on this scandal. “I think jail time is reasonable for the parents, and they do not deserve to not have any consequences.” With their parents paying to get them into that specific school, did they ever think about how that made their child feel? Summers said, “I think that the kids feel that they are unworthy and not able to accomplish things on their own.” Some say that the parents did this without their kids having any clue to what they were doing: “Um, I think that it depends on the case. I feel like most of the time they would know, but sometimes they would not.” Being famous will come with bigger consequences, like their reputation: “I think that it will ruin their credibility and also they will probably not have as good of a reputation along with job opportunities.”
Ellie Flynn, a student at Hillgrove High School, shared what she thought about this topic: “Um, yes I do think they deserve to go to jail. They committed a crime that in some sort, they knew was wrong.” Not only will this affect the family paying, it will affect everyone who wished to go to that certain college. “People who actually work hard in school and try to get into a good college themselves, could have been the one whose spot was taken, so it affects them in a bad way.” To many people, paying a school makes the college look bad because there is a very high chance that they knew. Flynn continued to say, “It will look bad on the colleges to some people because it looks like oh, they want money and it does not matter, but others have an opposite opinion.”
Thinking about this scandal and the people involved can affect many more families than they even thought about. It is unfair to those who work to get into the school they hope to go to. Those who committed the crimes are now facing consequences that are well deserved.
