SteveChop
PhD Student
Posts: 1156
Reg: 07-28-07
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10-09-18 04:35 PM - Post#262297
In response to penn nation
You say that your late friend (sorry for your loss) "would have gotten into Penn anyway". My comment to that is "maybe" (more likely in the era you reference). As we all know, many students are rejected from Penn, not because they are not smart or can't do the work but it's just a numbers game. That COULD have happened to your friend. Based on what we have heard about young Mr. Esformes, he is doing fine at Penn and is a senior scheduled to graduate in May. The issue here is whether listing him for athletic preference gave him a leg up (probably - though it doesn't mean he would not have been admitted under regular admissions criteria) but as noted above, that is/was not an uncommon practice in the Ivies to boost AI. The only issue I see here is that Jerome took money to list him that way - if no money had changed hands, I believe that this would have been a non-issue. The fact that his father is a defendant in a billion dollar plus alleged fraud is why this was discovered, a lawsuit that I don't think (not sure) had begun at the time of young Morris' admission.
Did it happen before, whether at Penn or any other Ivy? Who knows? If the spotlight was not on the parent, I don't know that this would have been discovered.
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