Beijing: A college admissions cheating scheme in the United States has triggered widespread discussion among Chinese netizens during the four-day May Day holiday after it was reported that a wealthy family paid US$6.5mil (RM26.8mil) to assure their daughter’s admission to Stanford University.
Billionaire Zhao Tao, 52, president and co-founder of Shandong Buchang Pharmaceuticals, a company that specialises in traditional Chinese medicine to fight cardiovascular disease, reportedly funnelled money to William Rick Singer, the admissions consultant who is at the centre of the explosive case brought by US federal prosecutors.
She said she sought college advisory services from him because she was not familiar with the admission process for colleges in the United States. Singer said the donation was to pay the salaries of academic staff, scholarships, athletic programmes and financial aid for students who otherwise would not be able to afford Stanford.
“Some people think ‘Didn’t you get into Stanford because your family is rich?’,” she said, offering viewers advice on getting into prestigious US universities.Zhao Tao responded to media reports with a statement released on his company’s website on Friday.
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