Many state schools accept a limited pool of candidates from out-of-state, and charge them a lot more money to attend. They also require much higher grades and accomplishments for consideration. Not sure what that class of student is pictured in that cartoon.
It's also not worth $500,000 to get into. No state school is worth that, plus the fraud required here.
True, I don't think any private school is worth that much either, except for Ivy League schools and even then only for the connections.
"I failed everything and still got into Yale,
It is but there are plenty of comparable schools that don't have such strict entrance requirements because their state populations are much smaller. Like there is no reason to commit fraud to send your kid to UT when they could just go to a bunch of other good southern or midwestern schools.
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From what I remember its much harder to get accepted as an out of state student in CA schools, might be different elsewhere but def not for places like Berkeley and all
I mean that isn't even illegal. They lied to the universities and paid specific individuals to commit fraud for them, they didn't give money to the university itself in exchange for admission.
