Lawsuit After $2 Million Fails to Secure Sons’ Harvard Admission
A Hong Kong couple Vs Mark Zimny and IvyAdmit Consulting LLC.
October 9, 2012 - 11:45 am
via News from The Associated Press.
BOSTON (AP) — A couple from Hong Kong has sued a U.S.-based college admissions consultant for failing to get their two sons into an Ivy League university as he had allegedly promised.
Gerald and Lily Chow say in their suit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston that they gave Mark Zimny more than $2 million to get their sons into an elite American university, preferably Harvard.
Hat tip: Drudge
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Proving once again that an elite education is costly. In this case, the parents are schooled.
I only hope that this experience teaches the parents – and their son – that a GOOD education is going to do him a lot more good than an education at a prestigious school. I have to believe that there are better schools than Harvard for just about anything he could hope to study. I suspect quite a few of them aren’t even Ivy League. Heck, I’ll bet many of them aren’t even American colleges….
Sure, they may lose the bragging rights that Junior went to Harvard but then Obama went to Harvard and he’s been a dud. I’m hoping that the value of going to Harvard is going to be significantly diluted, just as the prestige of the Nobel Prize took a big hit when they gave it to The Empty Suit for giving a couple of speeches.
It’s the “connections” they are after.