LOS ANGELES — It’s college graduation month, time of reunions and reflections, an ending and a commencement, and as good a moment as any to take stock. To watch a child go out into the world is to know that there is no hiding from the real measure of your life. has, of course, been Exhibit A in the college admissions scandal, that squalid parable of a status-obsessed age. A number of very rich people saw no moral issue with paying millions of dollars to get their underperforming children through the side door into top schools. How, after all, could they attend a party without being able to let drop that Henry or Ella is now at Yale?

Source: New York Times May 18, 2019 01:07 UTC