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About 3 weeks ago, we ran an article by Neal Gabler in the Boston Globe who asserted that college admissions was a scam. A week later we had another post, this time about a response to the original article by an MIT student named Maggie Liu who asserted that college admissions was not, in fact, a scam. Today we get word out of the Bay Area that there's another article, this one by Palo Alto Daily News columnist and college counselor Jason Katz, who mulls over the possibility of whether or not college admissions is a scam before ultimately disagree in in an areeable way. (In the meantime we've run several posts about an actual college admissions scam based out of Korea, but that's neither here nor there.)

I find the most intriguing part of Katz' article to be this passage: "If you are a dedicated, hard worker with a positive attitude, your boss is not going to care whether you went to MIT or to the University of Timbuktu."

Katz goes on to note that this would hold true if he were hiring someone for his own business (listed as JKatz [really?] College Counseling). Really though? A college counselor not caring where an applicant went to college? I find that hard to believe. That would be like saying MacDonald's doesn't hire drive thru workers based solely on their Body Mass Index. Wait? They don't? Oh...But then how do you explain?....Well, this is awkward.

Anyway, stay tuned for next weeks thrilling conclusion of the BSAT's favorite melodrama College Admissions is a Scam?!?!?!?!?!?!1!