> I don’t get it. <
Your analysis is correct.
Unfortunately, in this day and age literally everyone is a victim. And there are armies of lawyers standing by to “make things right”.
🙁
FTA
Four students filed a federal lawsuit in a Massachusetts federal district court in August, targeting Duke University and other top-tier institutions, as well as the Consortium on Financing Higher Education.
<><>they claim the early-decision system, intended to reward enthusiastic applicants,
<><>actually serves as cover for an anti-competitive scheme,
<><>a scheme that drives up tuition and guts financial aid.
<><>they want the schools to be held “jointly and severally liable.”
That’s legalese, meaning that “any one university” can be on the hook for the “full damages”
regardless of its individual role (though it can later seek money from its co-defendants).