LI: Until now, the college admissions scandal has highlighted crimes like alleged bribes, test cheating, and falsified data. A new story unfolding in Massachusetts revolves around the sale of a house.
Joshua Miller reports at the Boston Globe:
He bought the fencing coach’s house. Then his son got into Harvard
It was a modest house by this town’s standards, a center-entrance colonial, three bedrooms and a two-car garage on a quarter-acre lot. The inside hadn’t welcomed a renovator in many, many years, and the outside didn’t wear its age particularly well.
Its owner: Peter Brand, Harvard University’s legendary fencing coach. Its assessed value: $549,300.
So when the house sold to a wealthy Maryland businessman for close to a million dollars in May 2016, the town’s top assessor was so dumbfounded that he wrote the following in his notes: “Makes no sense.”
Now it might.
The buyer, it turns out, was the father of a high school junior who was actively looking at applying to Harvard with an eye toward being on the fencing team.
Soon enough, Jie Zhao’s younger son would gain admission and join the team. And Zhao, who never lived a day in the Needham house, would sell it 17 months after he bought it for a $324,500 loss.
The home sale may become the next chapter in the national debate over fairness in college admissions.
The Harvard Crimson notes that the school was not implicated in the national scandal, and has already opened an investigation for this specific case:
Breaking: Harvard Investigates Head Fencing Coach for Real Estate Transactions Involving Family of Current and Former Student-Athletes
Harvard will open an independent investigation into the University’s head fencing coach after he was allegedly involved in real estate and non-profit transactions with the family of current and former students on the team, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay wrote in an email to Harvard affiliates Thursday…
Harvard was notified of the allegations against Brand on Monday, according to Gay. The University has since opened an “independent review.”
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They let that treaonous, incompetent scumbag obama in, in return for a saudi bribe.
Then they let that idiot Camera Hogg in.
Harvard is a has been, like its partner in crony communism the ny times.
fake news brought down the msm, i hope this brings the same to the liberal uni system I hope
Oh good, Harvard is going to investigate itself. Gee, I wonder how that will turn out.
Obama – the most shiftless incompetent Harvard grad ever.
Skull and Bones, HAHAHAHAHA,,,,
sure he was,,,
Skull wise
Famous Fencing Coach Foiled.
@Tony R April 6, 2019 at 1:08 am
> Oh good, Harvard is going to investigate itself. Gee, I wonder how that will turn out.
But, @Tony R! Who without a Harvard title would be competent to investigate Harvard?