[billorites]

I love a good scandal.

[eyeamok]

If this kind of pay for play is Illegal, why isn’t every member of Congress in Prison??

[ealgeone]

Imagine what they’d find if Duke basketball were investigated.

[Mr. K]

Did you bribe your kid’s way into college?

“No no no no no no no no no...” he explained.

[Reno89519]

My guess is there are all kinds of schemes going on to get undeserving kids into prestigious schools.

[Mercat]

“They have retained outside counsel — whom they declined to name“

Dewey, Chetum, and Howe. They have offices in Cambridge.

[Lurker]

“We are committed to ensuring the integrity of our recruitment practices,” Harvard College spokeswoman Rachael Dane said.“

As she laughed up her sleeve.

L

[Libloather]

Harvard has, so far, been unscathed.

Well, they had a good run. Now they're on the excrement list forever.

[faithhopecharity]

used to be, it only took $100,000 to get into med school (overcome the racist quota system)...
but as some FR folks have pointed out, that was awhile back and the purchasing value of the USD has been (deliberately) depreciated since then

so maybe $549,000 is about right, in today’s dollars?
/s

[colorado tanker]

Seems everyone has a way into these schools except white middle class kids who can’t pay bribes or fit the affirmative action scheme.

[OrangeHoof]

These are the only ones of which the news has come to 'Hah-vahd'
And there may be many others but they haven't discah-vahd.

- Tom Lehrer

[john316]

Remember the good old days when the universities used to buy thing for the athletes

[petitfour]

If only his sons were black or Hispanic, their grades and test scores would make them shoe-ins for Harvard. Plus, they are legacy children. Sounds like Harvard has a reputation for turning down deserving Asian Americans. Oh wait. There was a lawsuit about such.

I like how this Chinese turned American citizen throws around money. I wonder how many others he has friended in the world of the elite. lol

[BenLurkin]

Are you saying their plot was … foiled?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The Boston Globe, always the radical lefty, actually wrote "...the 2016 sale of Brand’s home raises questions about whether Brand helped Zhao’s son get into Harvard in exchange for the inflated home price."

"Raises questions." Yeah, sure. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc.

[glorgau]

This is a classic example of money laundering.

[9YearLurker]

lharvard unscathed? How about the $2.5M it took to get Kushner in?

[Flick Lives]

Its owner: Peter Brand, Harvard University’s legendary fencing coach. Its assessed value: $549,300.

So when the house sold to a wealthy Maryland businessman for close to a million dollars in May 2016, the town’s top assessor was so dumbfounded that he wrote the following in his notes: “Makes no sense.”

This is the "house" version of the "book" buying bribery scandal with the Mayor of Baltimore.

[jocon307]

Pretty much looks like a straight up bribe, but hey, at least the kid actually played tennis!

[catnipman]

same kind of deal as when NBC hired Chelsea Clinton as a “special correspondent” for hundreds of thousands of dollars and put her on the air for only a couple of times ...

[BobL]

“Zhao said his son was a successful fencer, excelled at the prestigious St. Albans School with excellent grades (all A’s in high school except for one B freshman year, transcripts show), notched a nearly perfect SAT score, and had Harvard family connections — his older brother was then a student and a fencer, and his mother has multiple Harvard graduate degrees.”

All sounds great...UNTIL...you remember that this is an ASIAN family and therefore gets stepped on even more than whites. No wonder dad had to ‘take the extra step’ to get the kid admitted.