Perspective: The college admissions game is rigged. Arresting cheaters won’t change that.
By Shamus Khan Shamus Khan Bio Follow Shamus Khan, the chair of the sociology department at Columbia University, is the author of “Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School.” March 14 When I was in the ninth grade, I applied to boarding schools. The applications required that I take the SSAT, a version of the SAT for high school admissions. My parents were professionals, well-off but not extremely wealthy.
Maybe that shortcut to admissions — what Singer allegedly referred to as the “back door,” as opposed to the “side door” he offered — was too expensive for the families accused of paying for his services. We should prosecute Singer and his clients, but we shouldn’t kid ourselves: These families are a red herring, a drop in an ocean of purchased advantages.
Elite colleges pursue rich families. Golden’s work showed that while Harvard accepted about 11 percent of applicants in the late 1990s, when Kushner was admitted , more than half of the members of the Harvard Committee on University Resources — made up of some of the school’s biggest donors — had children then at the university, and many had sent more than one there.
My own tutor, in explaining what happened to my family, said he had administered an SSAT to a student with a disability who required extra time; he illegally photocopied the test that was entrusted to him. He used it as a practice test for me and many other students. What he did was wrong. But the fact that families can pay for a leg up on a supposed “aptitude” test often goes unquestioned; after all, they’re just giving their kids what they deserve.
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