“They’re suggested by all sorts of people,” Schapiro said in an interview with The Daily. “Politicians to famous alums to trustee members. Many, many people.”
Rick Singer, the head of the college-admissions preparation business implicated in the nationwide admissions scandal, spoke of a "side door" to gaining admissions. Only one of those three doors was available to SESP junior David Guirgis, a first-generation, low-income student — albeit barely.“I had to kick down the front door to get here,” he said.
When Christian Reyes expressed an interest in applying to ten colleges, his college counselor at J. Sterling Morton East High School in Cicero, Illinois, where over 90 percent of students are low-income,...
The parents of a Northwestern student were charged earlier this week in a $25 million cheating and bribing scheme that facilitated college admissions for wealthy students.
Manuel and Elizabeth Henriquez,...
