名校入学舞弊案，你怎么看？

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前不久美国闹得沸沸扬扬的名校入学舞弊案，近日又曝出了一件惊天大事：其中一笔涉案最高的款项来自一个名叫“Yusi Zhao”女生的家庭。她的父母花费650万美元，通过中间人辛格的帮助，使其进入斯坦福大学。该生现已被开除。

 

随后有媒体报道称，这个女孩的中文名叫赵雨思，她的父亲是山东步长制药集团董事长赵涛。

 

Zhao Yusi, a Chinese student who was expelled from Stanford University earlier in April amid investigations into a U.S. college admission cheating scandal. Her mother said on May 3 that her family was misled into paying 6.5 million U.S. dollars to an adviser, who allegedly used it to as donation to the university.

4月初因调查美国大学入学作弊丑闻而被斯坦福大学开除的中国学生赵雨思，她母亲于5月3日表示，她的家人被误导向一名顾问支付了650万美元，据称该顾问用它作为对该大学的捐款。

 

 

 

Zhao’s mother said through her lawyer Vincent Law that they paid the money to William Singer’s foundation on April 21, 2017, a month after her daughter received the offer from the university. According to Mrs. Zhao’s announcement, her daughter was also a victim in the incident.

赵的母亲通过律师Vincent Law表示，他们于2017年4月21日将这笔钱支付给了威廉·辛格的基金会，就在一个月前，她的女儿收到了大学的录取通知书。根据赵女士的声明，她的女儿也是这起事件的受害者。

Shandong Buchang Pharmaceuticals chairman Zhao Tao said his daughter’s studies in the US are a personal matter and she didn’t receive any funds from the company. As a listed company, Buchang’s operations are independent and will not be influenced by personal matters.

山东步长制药董事长赵涛声称：本人的女儿在美国留学事宜，属个人及家庭行为，资金来源与步长制药无关。步长制药是一家上市的公众公司，其运营管理是独立的，本人的私人事宜不会影响其正常运营。

 

  

 

今年3月美国曝出了大规模名校招生舞弊案，美国司法部起诉演艺明星、企业高管等数十名家长，指认他们向招生顾问威廉•辛格行贿，帮助子女考试作弊、冒充体育特长生进入知名高等学府。该案涉及耶鲁、斯坦福等多所名校，所涉赃款合计数千万美元。

 

The billionaire Chinese family of former Stanford sophomore Yusi Zhao paid $6.5 million - the largest known sum in the college admissions scandal uncovered by Operation Varsity Blues - to secure her admission to Stanford.

这位亿万富翁中国家庭的前斯坦福大学二年级学生赵雨思支付了650万美元以确保能进入斯坦福大学。这是“大学蓝队行动”(Operation Varsity Blues)揭露的大学入学丑闻中已知的最大金额。

 

Yusi was expelled after the University discovered that her application contained falsified sailing credentials linked to a $500,000 payment to the University’s sailing program. She moved out of her on-campus residence on March 30, according to sources familiar with the matter - three days before the University announced the expulsion in a press release on April 2.

在发现其申请中涉及伪造帆船运动证书，并支付该项目50万美元后，赵雨思被学校开除了。据知情人士透露，她于3月30日搬离校区，而就在3天后，校方在4月2日的一份新闻稿中宣布开除她。

 

The parents of the student, identified as Yusi Zhao, have not been charged. They were referred to the scam’s ringleader, William Rick Singer, by an employee at Morgan Stanley, the source said. The employee, Michael Wu, is a financial adviser. But he was terminated in March for “not cooperating with an internal investigation into the college admissions matter.”

据美国国家广播公司新闻网站报道，赵雨思的家长并没有被指控，他们是由摩根士丹利的一名员工牵线才认识了这件事的主使辛格。这名员工名叫 Michael Wu，是一名财务顾问。不过他已经在3月被摩根士丹利解雇，理由是“不配合招生案的内部调查”。

 

Wu’s lawyer, Raymond Aghaian, said Singer duped the Morgan Stanley adviser by telling him the money would go toward Stanford University “staff salaries and scholarships” and “fund athletics special programs and the university’s underserved outreach programs.” He also added that  his client was fired while out he was out of the country and trying to cooperate with Morgan Stanley.

Michael Wu的律师Raymond Aghaian则透露，是辛格欺骗了自己的当事人，辛格此前表示这些钱都是交给斯坦福大学的，用于“员工薪酬和奖学金”，以及“资助体育运动项目和学校资源不足的项目”。他还表示，当事人被公司解雇时正在国外，在尽力配合公司调查。

 

“It’s important to clarify that Stanford did not receive $6.5 million from Singer, or from a student’s family working with Singer,” the university said in the statement. “Stanford was not aware of this reported $6.5 million payment from the family to Singer until today’s news reports.”

不过对于这650万美元的巨款，斯坦福大学表示直到看到报道才听说，从未从辛格手中或者是学生家长那里收到过这笔款项。

 

最如今学生家长回应被骗，校方又表示并没有收到钱……

 

事情扑朔迷离，不过至少大家搞懂了一点：如果有人告诉你花钱能进斯坦福，那可要小心了！