To the Point
Bribery is the price of admission to some of America’s ‘best’ schools
Unqualified kids are admitted to some of America’s most prestigious institutions. Parents, administrators and coaches face criminal charges. Should higher learning be about more than status, money, prestige and power?
By Warren Olney • • 49m ListenStanford, Yale, Georgetown, USC and UCLA are just a few of the colleges and universities tainted by a national bribery scandal. Demand for “elite” education far exceeds the supply, and many millions of dollars are involved. But, what’s the real value of higher learning when it’s also available at thousands of other schools?
We’ll have that conversation and we’ll hear about the unprecedented criminal investigation of two fatal airline crashes and why pilots knew nothing about new software on the now-grounded Boeing 737 Max.
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Dominic Gates
Aerospace reporter for the Seattle Times
Jon Reider
Former Stanford admissions officer at Stanford University from 1985 - 2000
Tim Klein
Director of Strategic Partnerships for Project Wayfinder, a curriculum design specialist at Boston College and a teaching fellow at Harvard University. He’s also a clinical therapist and award-winning guidance counselor.