There are some decisions I’ve never had the privilege of making. To spend my vacation luxuriating in Turks and Caicos or in Musha Cay? Whether I should get the kind of plastic surgery that might subject me to a public skewering? Or whether or not to bribe a college with $500,000 to help secure admission for my kid?
At the heart of this scandal is the growing gap between the top one percent and the rest of us.
Because I don’t condone cheating or bribery and am unburdened with discretionary cash, I've been relieved of the ethical quandary involving collegiate admissions—the kind we’re hearing about in the news right now as part of Operation Varsity Blues—though I can't claim that I don’t lust after expensive "work" and playgrounds. Still, I’m not sure I wouldn’t be tempted by what's been termed a "side door" college admission scheme. What parent wouldn’t be? I’ve traveled through the front, back, and side doors and received both the benefits and the slap downs of the high cost of higher education in America.
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