Guilty admissions : the bribes, favors, and phonies behind the college cheating scandal /
Laporte, Nicole,
Guilty admissions : the bribes, favors, and phonies behind the college cheating scandal / Nicole LaPorte. - First edition. - vii, 341 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-339).
College night terror -- The guy -- Breaking glass -- Toddler admissions mania -- Welcome to the Gold Coast -- The sports connection -- The fall of Troy -- Buckley blues -- Don't cheat -- Nailing a score -- Moss baby [Mossimo Giannulli] -- Beantown showdown.
An exposé of the Varsity Blues scandal reveals how an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer preyed on the desperation of wealthy, upper class, insecure parents who sought to have their children admitted to elite colleges to maintain their own social status. An unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer preyed on the desperation of some of the country's wealthiest families-- deeply insecure parents who would do anything to get their kids into name-brand colleges in order to maintain their own A-list status. LaPorte offers a soap-opera-slash-sneak-peek-behind-the-curtains at America's richest social circles. The result is an examination of the cutthroat world of college admissions; and a parable of American society in 2019, when the country is run by a crass tycoon-- a world where the rich get whatever they want, however they want it. -- adapted from jacket
9781538717097 1538717093
2020938839
GBC107333 bnb
020083224 Uk
Universities and colleges--Admission--Corrupt practices--United States.
Universities and colleges--Administration.--United States
Guilty admissions : the bribes, favors, and phonies behind the college cheating scandal / Nicole LaPorte. - First edition. - vii, 341 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-339).
College night terror -- The guy -- Breaking glass -- Toddler admissions mania -- Welcome to the Gold Coast -- The sports connection -- The fall of Troy -- Buckley blues -- Don't cheat -- Nailing a score -- Moss baby [Mossimo Giannulli] -- Beantown showdown.
An exposé of the Varsity Blues scandal reveals how an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer preyed on the desperation of wealthy, upper class, insecure parents who sought to have their children admitted to elite colleges to maintain their own social status. An unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer preyed on the desperation of some of the country's wealthiest families-- deeply insecure parents who would do anything to get their kids into name-brand colleges in order to maintain their own A-list status. LaPorte offers a soap-opera-slash-sneak-peek-behind-the-curtains at America's richest social circles. The result is an examination of the cutthroat world of college admissions; and a parable of American society in 2019, when the country is run by a crass tycoon-- a world where the rich get whatever they want, however they want it. -- adapted from jacket
9781538717097 1538717093
2020938839
GBC107333 bnb
020083224 Uk
Universities and colleges--Admission--Corrupt practices--United States.
Universities and colleges--Administration.--United States