This is why a very select few companies I've worked for will do working interviews and really put the new hire to the test. Kinda sad how many kids can't do what they should be able to. When administering the tests myself I can't count the number of frustrated people yell that it's unfair to expect the bare minimum of them straight out of school. It kills them to learn that I went to a community college for my degree, and that I am the one who decides who gets hired. "It all comes out in the wash." Go ahead and cheat your way through life if you must, but don't think for one second that I care what school you attended. I only care that you can do the job I am paying you to do,and most people these days either can't or won't

Our politicians have made it perfectly obvious that they lack common sense and a basic education, and people were surprised that college representatives were helping the rich kids cheat to get into college? Puh-leez! What really makes me angry is the number of students that worked their asses off to earn a place at those colleges only to be denied because some rich kid had to cheat their way in.

And here I am rewearing clothing because I can’t afford to wash them at the laundromat. I doubt I’d be able to get into college. Yeah, scholarships exist, but there’s always someone with parents that can pay more. I think I’ll become a hermit and live with a few cats in a tree house, growing vegetables and hunting deer in the forests. Every so often, I’ll hunt down someone who did this with their kids and throw cats at them. Murder via cats.

This happens with Chinese students gaining entrance to American colleges too. Over 40% of international students in the US are Chinese and its because their parents pay services to write entrance essays, task entrance exams and do phone interviews because they believe that getting into ANY US college automatically gives their kid an edge. As a graduate I taught lower-level classes and I can tell you that nearly every freshmen Chinese student spoke EXTREMELY poor English and their written was not much better. I even had a fellow grad student who understood zero English and couldn't even fulfill the basic requirements and responsibilities required of her in the program so she had to be "demoted" of sorts. There is absolutely no way she wrote her own entrance essay and participated in her phone interview, the head of the program would have caught on. Colleges turn a blind eye because these students pay full international tuition. Its an epidemic they are happy to ignore.

The worst part of all of this? It is NOTHING NEW. It is not unusual nor is it something that a large segment of the population cares about. The wealthy have been buying their way through life since...well, probably since one cave person found a bigger and better stick than the other cave person. Take a glance at some of our (US here) politicians and decision makers. Many bought their degrees and many continue to buy their way through life. Wealth cares privileges the majority of us will never know.

I'm not surprised. At all.

With college tuition growing ever higher pretty soon the elite won't need to try so hard to keep the middle class or poor for rising to the top because only the wealthy will be able to afford college.

Excellent article/skills. Punctuation goes within the parenthesis, however. Pro's should know.

Do not forget schools where teachers are only nice to kids donate LOTS of money to the school. For example, Bob donates tons of money to the school, but Kelly doesn't. Bob is going to get an A for an essay when he should have gotten a C+. It happens all the time, especially at my school.

I think she's afraid to name names. She refers to A*****e McGloatyFace as if it's a WASP plot. Ron Unz wrote an expose in 2012 about the massive over representation of a certain group in Ivy League schools and how that over representation doesn't match SAT scores. That story has gone nowhere, because it would expose the real problem facing the US today. Sure, money is important, but so are tribal connections.

I was 13 when I realized that Money Can Buy Your Happiness, and as adult I learned that Money Can Definitely Buy Your Success too. this story is not limited to America, it's very real in every part of the world. it's sickening, but there's nothing much an individual can do about it. it's too lodged into society to surgically remove them.

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She wrote an ESSAY! Just to prove her point! That is dedication. I think everyone needs to be aware of this issue.

I don't understand people who lack morals. I really don't.

I really enjoy when the son's curriculum vitae mirrors the father' s with just minor differences, if you know personally how the fathers had been constructed. And how dumb the son is.

I think this is been happening for a really long time but finally somebody got busted for it!

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I think the saddest part is that the writer narrowly defines success or having "made it" as having millions of dollars and generally being considered rich. Rich is subjective. I have lived in poverty, but through my own merits, enjoy a career that is fast approaching 6 figures. I feel rich because I own my house, have a wonderful wife and child on the way. I want for nothing.

Sure, this isn't her best work, but why was this written like a 10th grader's Facebook status? Surely a person of her experience and background would know that the audience she was trying to reach were highly educated, self-made adults in the work force. We don't need ALL CAPS to pay special attention to certain points made. Yes, the rich elite will always get away with murder (sometimes literally), but it catches up. The dynasties you read about represent 0.1% of the top 1%-ers, while the rest are self-made millionaires who can't parent their kids properly, and the money is gone by the next generation or so. If it weren't for these A*****e McGloatyface's parents, our beloved author, Jamie Leigh, would not have the job she does now because she would have not been able to hone her craft and make good money to support her at the same time. Were it not for upper-middle class parents trying to give their kids a push in the right direction, I would have not been able to support my two kids.

I listened to a presenter speak about how important the "right" school was -- in other words, that "Brand-name university". He remarked how HR managers would weed-out resumes without looking at skillsets or relevant experiences. Years later, I met a woman who worked in HR. After a while, she shared that her boss asked her to go through a stack of resumes and to pull out only the ones from specific universities (of which, I could never dream of attending when I was applying years earlier). Her comment pretty much confirmed what the presenter had said. It's all about the college and connections made. Back in the day, fraternities and sororities were for building connections. I doubt that is true any more.

If universities want to stop the rampant favoritism for the rich and powerful, there's a fairly simple solution. Set a reasonable standard for admission, and then use a lottery to select from all applicants who meet that standard. Coaching, practice tests, test academies and other tools of the wealthy won't help give anyone a boost above the rest.

Great article ! Very honest and forthcoming. Everything that society deems successful is rigged. Everything. Just be happy with what you have. Enjoy the simple life. Don't worship the idiots. Even if they have lots of money. They can't take it with them. Everything they have and everything they do is meaningless.

I'm not even American but yeah, you don't need to be someone on the inside to know this is happening on a global scale, PLUTONOMY IS ALIVE AND WELL PEOPLE.

I believe the expression from the old days is this is simply a case of the pot calling the kettle black. You wrote and got paid by those you now skewer, roast and burn as being low-life miscreants of the worst kind. Sorry, but needing the money and "not doing it any more" does not change the fact what is did is pathetically wrong. There is no question that paying the way forward for those who are not qualified is wrong on all levels but again, you're just a deep in the poo-goo as they are for supporting them.

This is very true. And this applies for international students as well. I have personally been contacted for writing essays for students applying to Universities in USA. Thankfully, I was in the position of saying no to such unethical work.

I paid my way thru IU by writing papers for my class mates.

Soooo no one really knew it? Oh, como on, guys.

The writer would like to blame everyone else but herself. She has ZERO integrity. The writer says she couldn't turn the work away....duh.... YES she could have turned the work away. She should ask herself "who pooped in my pants"? Honesty, integrity, and a great character is not black or white, it is not rich or poor. You build it within yourself through honest hard work. When parents give everything to their children, they rob them of the joy one feels when you work hard and accomplish the thing you set out to do. Those parents who worked so hard and scraped to make a living.... hoping their children would not have to work as hard, fail at parenting when they don't teach their children that when you fall you pick yourself up and figure out how not to fall again. Every time we face a difficult time in our life it teaches us a valuable lesson. It is a joy to earn your own way in life. No one is joyful when someone else pays the way.... Not parents nor the government.

Am I the only one who sees this woman as a pimp? She's as much of a scumbag crook as the rich douchebags who paid her. She took blood $$$ to help the elite cheat. The only reason she wrote this piece is to cover her a*s when it comes out that she is part of the "scheme". Also stop grouping "white people" with these rich pieces of s**t. Being white has nothing to do with it. I'm white, grew up on the lower end of the middle class. I joined the army at 19 to help with college. Supported myself from the time I was 19 and couldn't afford to go to college until I was 33 years old.

And how is this any different from what 70%+ of Chinese entering US universities do? Why isn't any one talking about them?

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Sexist BS, "the richest of rich parents get HIM there..." not the truth, "the richest of rich parents get him OR HER there..." A little biased perhaps? Disingenuous coming from a sellout like yourself.

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"the notion that anybody, regardless of wealth, race or social class, can make it to the top has become thoroughly discredited." Oh FFS. It's impossible, except for all the people that do it all the friggin time. If you stopped whining and put your nose to the grindstone you might make something of yourself instead of just being a whiny b***h. I hate when people have examples all around them that demonstrably discredit them but they refuse to pay attention. Have fun blaming other people for your problems, you pussy.