It must be me but I am not as upset or traumatized about this cheating scandal. The media has been covering this all morning and many people including many people here are very upset about it. I have always assumed that there has always been money being exchanged to allow some people in. As i posted before, there are plenty of rich people who have donated money to the colleges which paved the way for their kids to get in. There is a reason many Elite colleges have buildings named after famous rich people. If you think about it one way, this scandal is about those who are wealthy but not necessarily super wealthy (although there are some involved) being allowed to play the same game. In other words, they dont have the money to donate 10 million dollars to Harvard but they could afford 15,000 to 500,000. This amount of money wouldnt get them an interview with the Dean of Harvard but it does give them access to coaches and SAT proctors. Dont get me wrong, I dont condone it nor approve it, just not surprised by it. What does surprise me is that coaches who get paid to accept the students as student athletes and those parents who are photoshopping their kids faces on top of a real athlete. Honestly, as terrible as that is, i can sort of appreciate the effort they went through. People seem to get upset because these kids have taken the spot of some other more deserving student. That would be true if we could assume that all of the kids who get accepted to a college are the best of the applicants and yet we know that isnt true. Colleges accept students based on a criteria of their own design. Harvard is being sued for cutting the number of Asian students because their criteria is to accept more minority students who may not have the same scores as the higher achieving Asians. UCLA and Berkley which are financed by the citizens of California, looks to bring in more out of state and foreign students because they pay more. They too limit Asian students and are actively looking for a more diverse population. These schools map out what their school population will look like regardless if better scoring students arent admitted. I just figured one section of the student population is made up of kids who parents paid for them to get in. Again, i dont support what they did, i wouldnt never do it even if i had 500K to spend. I just not surprised by it.