College Part 2: How the Rich and Famous Do It

Infamous

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

As some students hear back from colleges this spring, Vanessa and Natalie dig deeper into the admissions hysteria, obsession, and scandal. The Varsity Blues case might have cracked open an illegal underworld of corrupt deals—but there are plenty of perfectly legal ways privileged parents bend the system to their will. Think test prep, tutors, and college coaches who charge hundreds of thousands of dollars to text kids reminding them to turn in their math homework. Today, Vanessa talks to Sarah Bernstein, playwright, college essay writing coach, and author of the New York Times story, “Elite College Admissions Have Turned Students Into Brands.” Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A Campside Media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Camp site media.
0:09.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to infamous this week.
0:11.5	I'm Vanessa Gregoriatis.
0:13.4	And I'm Natalie Robamette.
0:15.0	We are going to do a little bit of a follow-up
0:17.3	to last week because it's spring and that's usually
0:21.0	when college accept exceptions go out.
0:23.3	So you may have people in your life
0:25.3	that are talking about this right now.
0:27.6	With Varsity Blues, it's pretty clear that that was a major scandal.
0:32.1	But in reporting that story story we realized that the real
0:34.8	scandal is what's going on now. Yeah, the current real scandal is how the elite are
0:40.2	getting into college now, whether that's by paying for lots of test prep, subject
0:44.7	tutoring, coaching, and essay help.
0:48.4	So there was just a huge story in New York magazine.
0:51.2	What was it talking about?
0:52.2	Yeah, the headline was
0:53.6	inventing the perfect college applicant. For $120,000 a year, Christopher Rim
0:58.2	promises to turn any student into Ivy Bayes. Oh my God that is crazy. What? So basically it's all about this really
1:06.2	really expensive college consultant who will work with these elite kids who have
1:12.3	rich parents and basically try and guarantee them getting
1:17.0	into an Ivy school.
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