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Comedian Bill Burr noted that the rich kids whose parents paid for faked scores for elite schools didn't fail out. This means that the schools aren't that hard after all (or maybe the rich kids weren't dumb).

All of this hoopla - over test scores - is a lot like the NFL draft. As Hall of Famer/Super Bowl champion Shannon Sharpe said, how high or low you're drafted doesn't matter...it is what you do AFTER the draft for which they'll remember you.

As such, I'm not a huge test score/SAT/GPA/"what school did you go to?" guy. I'm more interested in how you think and solve problems NOW - give me a guy or gal from Whatever College or Unheardof Tech that will hustle any day.

Maybe the whole test score thing is an elitist ploy to keep the wrong people out.

Think of all of the students who went into forever debt to go to a "better" school. Now we know that those schools don't provide a better education and that some of the elite paid and bribed to get there.

I wonder if potential employers are factoring debt and financial scores into their hiring decisions. If I were an employer, I wouldn't choose someone who had debt vs one who figured it out without that debt.