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The Crooked Competition for Admission Into Elite Colleges and Universities

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The Crooked Competition for Admission Into Elite Colleges and Universities
People walk by Hoover Tower on the Stanford University campus on March 12, 2019 in Stanford, California. More than 40 people, including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, have been charged in a widespread elite college admission bribery scheme. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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Scandal time! The past week has featured a string of sensational stories about the extreme measures that some parents take to get their kids into elite post-secondary schools. Several celebrities have been publicly humiliated. Some of those named are known progressives who bash the unfair advantages of wealth and have now been shown to be hypocrites.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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