College Bribes - or - Success Without College

So all these people, some of them famous, bribed their childrens' way into a good school. I'm excited that some might be going to jail.  It would be better if the kids were thrown out, or their degrees revoked.  But real consequences are too much to hope for.

In reality, parents have been bribing colleges for over a century by giving elite schools money. I knew someone who worked at University of Pennsylvania admissions decades ago, and she said that the first day of classes, parents would line up with their checkbooks to bribe their child's way in, who had not been accepted the regular way. It happened every year.

What's really sickening, is that college has become a status symbol.  The fear of parents not attaining that degree for their child is crazy.  What's even crazier, is that no one has noticed before because the kids haven't flunked out. That means the education level of so-called elite universities is nonsense.  It is not more challenging.  It does not require more brains or talent.  The whole thing is crap.

People are going to these schools to stay an elite.  That's it.

So let's talk about getting a good-paying job.  You know, without student loans or bribes.  Success without college .net has all the books in the success without college Roadmap book series.  We are releasing Roadmap to Firefighter this spring, and have Roadmap to Plumber and Roadmap to Software Developer and Frankenstein - the Robot That Hires You.