Cenk Uygur
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Parents Sue After Sons Don't Get Into Harvard
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October 13, 2012
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4:35Now Playing"Gerald and Lily Chow from Hong Kong, agreed to provide Mark Zimny and his company, IvyAdmit, with the hefty retainer believing that he would use the money to make generous donations to schools like Harvard, Yale and Princeton on their behalf and secure their sons' places at top schools.
But after two years of continually transmitting funds to Mr Zimny for donations and intense tutoring, the Chows became suspicious of how the 'consultant' was spending the money and a superficial investigation soon revealed that no donations had been made.
Mr and Mrs Chow met Mr Zimny in 2007 at an event at the Massachusetts prep school that their oldest son attended.
He presented himself as a Harvard professor and elite admissions consultant with several professorial partners who had strong connections with top U.S. universities, in particular with Harvard."* Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, and Jayar Jackson break down why the parents could have thought they could buy a Harvard education and why they would even do that.
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