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Discussion :

Down through the years, we have all heard people touting about the value of getting a good college education to succeed in life, and most of us have bought into this grand idea and even have become a part of the scheme to become an academician.

More young people today are waiting to take the SATs and the ACTs, hoping to score a scholarship to one of the country's accredited colleges and/or universities; this thought is especially true during this season when high school students have worked or cheated hard, gotten the grades, and are looking forward to being accepted at the college or university of their choice.

With all this excitement filling the high school environment, it came as a surprise to me recently when I learned that wealthy people throughout the United States were scheming and giving bribes to test proctors and school administrators to rig college entry exams to their children's advantage and bribing other students to use falsified identifications to take the college entrance exams for their child--these are our future leaders.

These same wealthy parents are working illegally with college administrators to get their children accepted at prestigious colleges and universities as members of little known sport teams like curling teams when in actuality their child knows nothing about the sport.

Likewise, some of these well-to-do parents have had special artists come in and touch of their child's college entrance photo so that the child resembles some famous individual in his age group. I know this sounds crazy because you earned your high school diploma and took the entry exams yourself, but recently a prep school administrator was arrested for scheming with wealthy parents to arrange for their child to take a rigged entry exam that would guarantee their acceptance into some of the USA's most prominent colleges/universities.

However, dozens of others have recently been caught and jailed for scheming to get their children into these elite universities

This scandal includes people like actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin's husband designer Mossimo Giannulli, college sport coaches, athletic administrators and even college CEOs.

However, do not think that this scheming occurs only in the circle of the wealthy, for recently, I learned that one of my acquaintances who has a son in the high school who is a promising possible-future-college athletic so she has her son heavily involved in after school sports while she sits at home doing his home work especially the homework for those easy-measy true/false computer classes.

When I questioned her integrity, I was told that that was the way she could assure that her son had the best chance of earning a scholarship to a prestigious college. Boy was I shocked, but now I know.

Has this kind of scheming been overlooked in most high schools especially among the graduating seniors? Does this kind of activity have your approval or are you content to turn and look in another direction?

How do you think these schemes will affect future college graduates? Is this fair on any level?