Jokes about the wealthy/elite getting their offspring admitted to schools in exchange for "buying buildings" or making considerable donations to school endowments have been around far longer than me, and I'm 50.
At what rate do the offspring of apex elite attend top tier schools?
Does that all work on merit?
Did Chelsea Clinton truly deserve her acceptance to Stanford when her father was President? I assume so....
Or was it a much better executed version of Libyan dictator Qaddafi's son and the London School of Economics scandal?
To me it seems these things have always happened.
The only surprise, I think, is when people think they are amongst the elite to whom most rules don't apply, but they're really just part of the super affluent and risk being made examples of.