blog<\/a> asking, among other things, where were the colleges who weren\u2019t selling their slots. Here’s that paragraph:<\/p>\n\n\n\nSome college admissions bribery is legal: giving millions to your Alma Mater so your kid can be accepted. Who is more guilty? The wealthy parent who gives the <\/em>bribe<\/em><\/del> donation, or the school who alters its standards to let their kid in? Are there institutions who can stand up and say, \u201cSlots in our school can\u2019t be bought! <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nWell, there is one! The Wall Street Journal reported on November 7, 2019, that Occidental College in Los Angeles got an email from Rick Singer, the man who admitted to orchestrating the cheating scandal. Mr. Singer was suggesting that Occidental \u201creconsider an application from the academically challenged daughter of a wealthy family.\u201d He wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Are you kidding? We can create a win-win for both of us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Journal reports that Vince Cuseo, Occidental\u2019s admissions official, gave a simple response:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe article goes on to say that Occidental isn\u2019t doing as well as other schools in endowments and facilities because they simply don\u2019t have the money. But they have something the other schools don\u2019t have: INTEGRITY. More power to them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. (Proverbs 22.1, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How about a small piece of uplifting news? When the college cheating scandal broke, I wrote a blog asking, among other things, where were the colleges who weren\u2019t selling their slots. Here’s that paragraph: Some college admissions bribery is legal: giving millions to your Alma Mater so your kid can be accepted. Who is more … Continue reading Just Say No<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-nj","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}