The college admissions scandal has raised questions of fairness, especially for students of modest means.
Asriel Hayes, 17, a senior at the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, had his sights set on attending the University of Southern California’s prestigious music school. By Moriah Balingit Moriah Balingit Reporter covering national education issues Email Bio Follow April 25 at 7:00 AM LOS ANGELES — Anthony Ramirez worried about how the admissions officers at his dream school, the University of Southern California, would judge him.
Among those accused in the sprawling scandal: actress Lori Loughlin, whose daughter Olivia Jade Giannulli got into USC by pretending to be a collegiate rower. The teenager once quipped in a YouTube video that she didn’t “really care about school.” Loughlin pleaded not guilty April 15.“It’s just like the top 1 percent just continuously staying the top 1 percent,” said Ramirez’s classmate Asriel Hayes, an artist and musician from Inglewood whose top choice was USC.
In mid-March, Ramirez, Hayes and nearly a quarter of their senior classmates were awaiting letters that were set to be mailed March 21, a Thursday — but it was anybody’s guess when the letters would reach the homes of students. Two days later, the decisions would be posted online. Hayes regards many of the measures used by wealthy parents to give their children an advantage as cheating. An artist, the 17-year-old Hayes said he fares poorly on standardized tests. His family does not have money for private test prep.
Research has shown that students from low-income families face significantly longer odds of getting into elite schools. Looking at data from 1999 to 2013, researchers found that children whose parents are in the top 1 percent of the income distribution are 77 times more likely to attend elite colleges than children whose parents are in the bottom 20 percent.
He had his eye on one of USC’s most competitive programs: an academy that merges arts, technology and business instruction to help students create their own technology start-ups. Ramirez is deeply involved in Teens Exploring Technology , a program that teaches young men of color growing up in poverty how to develop their own apps.
Across town, Hayes, who rides a bus an hour to school, arrived home and checked the mail — nothing from USC. His father, Stacy Hayes, who works for the Los Angeles Unified School District in the facilities division, is a USC graduate who finished his degree in 2015 after a three-decade hiatus. A framed photo of him in a cap and gown hangs on the living room wall.
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