'As a former admissions dean at Yale Law School, I worry about...future talented college applicants from underprivileged backgrounds who may opt out of reaching for the most selective schools,' AshaRangappa_ says of the cheating scandal | via CNNOpinion
Asha Rangappa is a senior lecturer at Yale's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. She is a former special agent in the FBI, specializing in counterintelligence investigations. Follow her @AshaRangappa_. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
The FBI's arrest of more than 50 people associated with what may be the largest college admissions cheating scandal in history has exposed how access to resources and connections can distort the admissions process -- to an allegedly illegal extreme -- and hurt ordinary applicants. Asha RangappaThe victims of the scam described by federal prosecutors include not only deserving students who might have been offered the spots which, according to the charges, were corruptly offered to students with fraudulent applications, but also current students at these institutions who were admitted based on their own hard work and merit.
Unfortunately, the case also magnifies applicants' worst fears about the process and provides fodder for naysayers, such as cynical parents or counselors, to tell students -- the very ones whom elite colleges may in fact be delighted to recruit and admit -- not to even bother applying.
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