Posted on 07/27/2002 11:57:20 AM PDT by Paul Atreides
The Princeton University admissions officers who peeked into a Yale University Web site 18 times in April returned again and again to a single account: that of a high school senior in Houston named Lauren Bush -- apparently President Bush's niece. In fact, they logged on to her online acceptance notice four times during a single afternoon.
Then there was Ara Parseghian, a high school senior from Tucson and the grandson of his namesake, the famed Notre Dame University football coach. Princeton staffers looked at his account three times in the span of a few hours, according to a confidential Yale report obtained by The Washington Post.
Princeton's alleged snooping into Yale's admissions decisions for 11 applicants resulted Thursday in an FBI probe, the suspension of a top Princeton admissions official and an apology from the prestigious Ivy League institution.
But education experts say the larger lesson may be that the fierce competition between elite Ivy League universities for top students has finally gone too far, sparking the kind of lapse in judgment that is certain to bring renewed scrutiny to the college admission process.
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