FILE – In this March 12, 2019, file photo, William “Rick” Singer, founder of the Edge College & Career Network, departs federal court in Boston after pleading guilty to charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal.
But there’s little belief the college bribery scandal has stirred significant change in the admissions landscape.
Corrupt athletics officials abused holes in the system, they argue, but no college admissions officers were accused.
The scheme itself was brazen, with rich parents paying to get their children accepted to selective universities as fake athletes.
When authorities announced the first charges in 2019, it left colleges across the U.S.
The university blamed it on “one or a small number” of sports officials who violated school policy and hid it from the admissions office.
But in the big picture of Yale’s admissions, “very little has changed,” said Logan Roberts, a senior at the Ivy League school who came from a low-income family in upstate New York.
On campus, he said, students from modest means are still far outnumbered by those who went to private schools with access to expensive tutors.
Angel Pérez was the head of admissions at Trinity College in Connecticut when the scandal broke.
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Ultimately, wealth and privilege play the same role in admissions that they did before the case, said Park, of the University of Maryland.