So in this case...it’s not his mom or dad who paid a million or five million to the college. Some middle-guy, with a 20-year agenda, is figuring a pay-off to the right entry-control members, will get the ‘kid’ into the school and he’s likely on some sports deal where professors have to go lientient on him because his grades won’t match the ‘norm’.
However, this is a private institution, and unless the Chancellor there (Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust) sees some hint that the story is going to get out....that’s about the only way that she’ll open an investigation and determine that someone got paid off.
Faust is no longer the president. Harvard now has Lawrence Bacon - a very smart guy who went to both MIT and Harvard and was president of Tufts.