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Capstone Wealth Partner’s View on the College Admission Scandal

By Joe Messinger, CFP®

March 26, 2019

2 min READ

The normally quiet world of college admissions was rocked this week with a major college admission scandal. The FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston indicted 50 people including Hollywood actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin in a scam to obtain entrance for their children into select colleges including “Georgetown, Stanford, UCLA, Yale, University of Texas, University of San Diego, University of Southern California and Wake Forest.”

This scheme involved bribery of various people including athletic coaches and entrance exam administrators. The fraudulent activity included cheating on the ACT and SAT exams as well as faking athletic profiles for students who were not athletes. At this point, it seems the children were not aware of their parents activities. Huge sums of money were funneled from wealthy families through a fake non-profit operated by the alleged mastermind of the scheme, William Rick Singer who has “pled guilty to charges of racketeering, money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and obstruction of justice.”

This college admission scandal puts a spotlight on the lack of transparency and fairness in the college admissions and financial aid system. As we are learning, this process is fraught with “back door” and so called “side door” scams for the super wealthy. For the rest of us, being an informed consumer of higher education is all we can do to stack the chips in our favor. This scandal makes for great headlines, but by in large these are isolated incidents.

There is no magic wand we can wave. It isn’t about trying to cheat the system. It is about demystifying the financial aid process and being an informed consumer that gives you an advantage operating within the rules. Don’t let the headlines deter you from pursuing a great education for your kiddos. Do your homework and ensure every student graduates with manageable student loan debt without robbing retirement.

Joe Messinger, CFP®

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Joe is a leading authority on late-stage college funding. He frequently speaks to organizations and parent groups such as BMI Credit Union, Westerville City Schools, At the Core, CollegeWire, and I Know I Can, among others. He is also a highly regarded thought leader in the financial planning community. He is frequently asked to speak at industry conferences about his College Pre-Approval™ process providing Continued Education for CPA’s and CFP® through through the FPA, XYPN, and OSCPA and has been published in the Journal for Financial Planning.

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