In e-mails released by the university and in news reports since May, it has become clear that University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman played a key role in what the university called its Category One List — a list of students with political connections whose applications for places at the flagship Urbana-Champaign campus were closely tracked. Some of those applicants were admitted over more qualified students, students that weren't politically connected.
In some e-mails, Herman pushed for the admission of
underqualified applicants to the university's law school and agreed to provide scholarship money in exchange.
This is how UNDERQUALIFIED young people make their way into positions of power.
And this is how many of us are prevented from getting ahead.
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