<p>Daniel Golden’s The Price of Admissions - he even names names.</p>
<p>Couple friends with 3.0 gpas and 1800 sats; $100,000 later, they’re into Berkeley.</p>
<p>My daddy, after buying me a ferrari for finishing my college apps, sent a 5,000 dollar check to the fifteen schools I applied to. Some of them contacted us back, and my daddy talked on the phone and said it was a mistake, but they could keep the money. I didn’t get in to any of my reach schools. My daddy called the college presidents, and most of them said they only consider checks starting at 6,000 dollars :(</p>
<p>There’s this girl at my school who’s not really dumb, but she’s certainly not that smart at all. So when I found out she was going to Stanford, I was more than a little confused…turned out, her dad is not only an alumni, but also a billionaire. Case closed ;)</p>