When the college cheating scandal broke earlier this year, one of my friends pointed out a highly personal wrinkle in the story that now strikes me as making a much broader and more significant point. If you’re one of the children involved in the SAT fraud scheme, he asked, how would it feel to know your parents think you’re too stupid to get even a plausibly acceptable score? As in, a score that wasn’t good, but that was high enough to make a more conventional approach to rigging admissions decisions—like donating a large sum of money or leaning on one’s Read more