Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The legal ways rich students get into colleges even if they’re unqualified
Students have filed a class-action lawsuit against the universities named in the college bribery scandal, which includes Stanford, USC and UCLA. Students say they were cheated by an admissions process that was "warped and rigged by fraud."
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readStudents have filed a class-action lawsuit against the universities named in the college bribery scandal, which includes Stanford, USC and UCLA. Students say they were cheated by an admissions process that was "warped and rigged by fraud." Also, two parents named in the indictment quit the board of trustees of a prominent prep school in Newport Beach. One of the parents is a former CEO of Pimco, a leading Southern California investment firm. The other is part of the family that invented Hot Pockets. Both were accused of paying bribes to get their children into USC. These parents may have broken the law, but there are many perfectly legal ways parents can buy their children into elite universities.
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play
Amy Ta
Digital News & Culture Editor
Daniel Golden
senior editor at ProPublica, and author of “Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates”
The full episode
2 of 4How rich parents game the college admissions system -- legally- 0:00The central role of social media in the terrorist attack in New Zealand
- 8:42The legal ways rich students get into colleges even if they’re unqualifiedYou’re reading this
- 18:03In ‘Ash Is Purest White,’ a Chinese Bonnie and Clyde
- 30:43The rise and fall of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes