That shock came March 13 when Loughlin turned herself in to the FBI, among the dozens charged in the country's largest ever university admissions cheating and bribery scandal. Students in neighbourhoods like this one in South Los Angeles only have access to one university admissions counsellor per 1,000 students, according to the National Association of College Admissions Counselors. Many American high schools have counsellors who help students apply to university, but often those who need it most have to do without. College counsellors in short supply"The bottom 20 per cent of districts in the United States don't even have a college admissions counsellor on staff because the budgets are so constrained for money," Donnelly says. She says the recommended ratio of university admissions counsellors to students is 250 to one.

Source: CBC News May 04, 2019 09:56 UTC