The Education Scandal That’s Bigger Than Varsity Blues | The Atlantic

Rich kids are enrolled in college at three times the rate of poor kids.

It’s hard to snatch attention from the jaws of intrigue, and Varsity Blues had it all. There were fake SAT scores, a shady deal maker, and wealthy parents eager to lay waste to anything standing in front of their children on the road to a selective college—the vaunted status symbols that they are. This exposes the gritty underbelly of the race to get into America’s colleges, a common refrain went.

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