TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laporte,Nicole
TI  - Guilty admissions: the bribes, favors, and phonies behind the college cheating scandal 
SN  - 9781538717097
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Twelve
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - Admission
KW  - Corrupt practices
KW  - United States
KW  - Administration
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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