Should the students who benefited from deceit be expelled?

[MissB]

66. So much data is transmitted electronically nowadays

My kids are still in college (and we didn’t have to bribe anyone to get them in to their respective colleges) so I’ve had a bit of recent experience in how college applications happen.

I actually can imagine a scenario where a kid wouldn’t know. SAT score results aren’t mailed anymore, and haven’t been since at least my kids were in middle school and sat for their first SAT. You sign up for an ID/account and then all your test results are available for viewing on that account. It’d be relatively easy to set up an account for a student.

Similarly, applications are electronically submitted. Any one can submit that on behalf of someone else; I’m guessing that may have been/is part of the service for really wealthy folks that are used to having staff do mundane tasks for them.

I never saw my kids’ college applications or essays. They told me where they were applying but I didn’t get to proof read a darned thing. All of my kids’ acceptances were electronic too- either through email or by signing on to a university portal. Scholarship and housing info was about the only stuff that came thru the mail.