PARENTS HAVE gone to extreme lengths to get their children into highly ranked colleges. Charles Kushner, father of Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, promised $2.5m to Harvard University in 1998 shortly before his son’s admission to the university. In recent years the “varsity blues” scandal landed a few famous parents in jail for bribing college staff with six-figure sums. But colleges have behaved badly too. A former dean at Temple University’s business school in Philadelphia received a 14-month prison sentence this month for gaming the rankings system. Now Columbia University is in the hot seat.
父母竭尽全力使孩子进入高度排名的大学。查尔斯·库什纳（Charles Kushner）是唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）的女son贾里德·库什纳（Jared Kushner）的父亲，他于1998年在儿子入学后不久就向哈佛大学承诺向哈佛大学。近年来，“大学蓝调”丑闻因贿赂大学工作人员的六位数金额而入狱几个著名的父母。但是大学的表现也很差。费城坦普尔大学商学院的前院长本月因游戏排名系统而被判入狱14个月。现在，哥伦比亚大学在热门座位上。
