rbg
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10-09-18 05:07 PM - Post#262298
In response to SteveChop
I believe you are correct that this all came to light because of the lawsuit against the young man's father. However, it does not make what Jerome's actions acceptable.
While no writer or interviewed expert can recall anything like this happening before, it does not mean that it has not happened.
Looking at this objectively -
Mr. Esformes wants to get his son into an elite private school. The young man is a good student with a solid application, but these schools have between a 5-15% acceptance rate. The parent could go the route of making a sizable (and public?) donation to one of these schools, but that is quite pricey. Why not spend the equivalent of one year's tuition, room & board to get the student on the recruited athletes list and increase the likelihood of an acceptance. With the Ivy League's AI issue, it would not raise a red flag if a lower rated athlete gets a recruitment spot.
Going back to my Maryland comments from earlier, in 2017 a faculty member asked their President, Wallace Loh, how he could be certain that the university is “protected from the corrupting influence of athletics†in the wake of the UNC scandal. He replied “As president I sit over a number of dormant volcanoes. One of them is an athletic scandal. It blows up, it blows up the university, its reputation, it blows up the president.
https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018 /8/1...
While Allen's issue did not cost a life or represent a toxic culture, it could be the tip of the iceberg. Shouldn't Ivy Presidents, whose admissions policies are under the microscope by the courts and the media, be working with their ADs and Deans of Admissions to find out if this has happened at their schools? If not, how can they make the process more transparent so it does not give the appearance that anyone is giving money under the table to secure their child's place on the team and into the school.
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