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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what happens when the system doesn't treat everyone fairly and is not transparent. When people perceive that others are being held to a different standard and information is not readily available at a granular level to let parents decide whether or not a child really has a good chance to get in, parents get desperate and do crazy things. I come from a country with rampant corruption and the reason this country is so corrupt is because the elites have set up a system that encourages cheating and fraudulent activity. The people in the system just react to incentives.

The real culprits here are neither the parents nor the kids. It is the colleges. They participate in this system where information that really matters is hard to obtain and hidden in "aggregated useless statistics" and then they make the admission process a mystery and aren't really transparent about what goes on in the admission meetings. 
Parents and kids are just trying to survive in this system.

Its like blaming the woman for prostituting herself, when she is trying to feed herself by selling her body because the market is setup that way. [/quote]

I take issue with your comparison of a woman who prostitutes herself because she needs the money and a parent paying $400k to bribe their kid into a school he wouldn't have been accepted to.   One is a victim of poverty/economic circumstance while the other is a privileged person who can't accept that he can't have everything he wants in life.[/quote]

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