$6.5 million is so much more outside the range of what most of the other parents payed. Isn't this enough to get a building named or endowed or something? You know, doing it "legally". If this was also a payment fraudulently reported to the IRS as a charitable donation, it really needs to be exposed.
I don't see why these parents should not be named.
I agree, it seems like there's a big surprise in there somewhere
Former eBay and Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman donated $30 million to build Princeton’s Whitman College residence hall before
her two sons, Griffith and William Harsh, got into her alma mater.
But to the extent a donation can grease an average kid’s application to a haughty school, it’s hardly the most economical route, particularly at elite Ivy League schools.
To get in to a college using the “back door” it was said ... “Today it’s probably $10 million and up.”
He and others add that it’s increasingly rare, and not just because few can donate at that level. “I’ve never seen colleges blatantly sell admission spots,” Mercer said. “Decades ago that may have been a process, but universities worked so hard over the last few decades to build their brand of being desirable and worthy, and that doesn’t come from selling admissions to donors. So when it happens, and I think it happens rarely, the price of admission is high.”
What's it cost to boost your kid's college application?
and... just recently....
Dr. Dre boasted about his daughter’s acceptance into the University of Southern California. Dre, who is from Compton, has made multiple donations to schools in Southern California, including a $10 million donation to Compton High School for a performing arts complex in 2017 and
a $70 million donation to USC to create a new arts, technology and business academy in 2013. The latter gift came from both Dre and music producer-turned-entrepreneur Jimmy Iovine.
Dr. Dre boasts after his daughter gets accepted into USC 'all on her own': 'No jail time!'
