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Who are you doing this for? It's almost incomprehensible. The parents were rich. They were

powerful. Their kids had access to the best tutors in the world, the best schools. They were

already connected. They already had a leg up in life. So why did these parents risk everything,

tax fraud, racketeering charges to bribe their kids way into college? It's insane.

Even the explanation that some of

these parents gave, I knew it was wrong, but I would do just about anything for my kids. This logic

had trouble standing up in court because there were plenty of other colleges these kids could have

gotten into, because the front door was open too if they'd been willing to work for it. And after all,

there are people who attend state schools and achieve the same lofty heights as those who attend Harvard.

And some of the schools these parents were cheating to get into were ridiculous. The University of

Texas is a good school, but it's not as hard as Harvard to get into. One of the most revealing bits of the

whole case came from a father who asked his accomplices to make sure that his daughter got in

anywhere other than ASU, meaning he didn't care that much about education, but he cared about the

cachet of the institution and how it measured up

against his friend's kids. And then this father had the audacity to cloak his actions as being

selfless. The authors of Unacceptable, the new book about the college admissions crisis,

which we've talked about before, would quote one of the sentencing judges.

It is something parents should be thinking about, she said, are they doing this for their children?

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