Asha Rangapa
The Reformer
Changing the system from inside it, principle turned into change.
Asha Rangapa is a legal scholar and admissions expert who emphasizes the need for reform in college admissions to ensure fairness and integrity. This interview reveals her commitment to addressing systemic issues in education and her belief in the importance of evaluating merit beyond traditional metrics.
“Think what you just said, Asha, is kind of profound, and it speaks to your genuinely unique perspective on this. You might be the only person in the world who's both been an FBI agent and also investigating crimes and also an admissions officer. So, you know, had you been at the FBI, this would have been your case, I s”
“I think it was a little of both. So you're right. It wasn't his money. And I think that that's why they inverted the pyramid here to go after the people who were really trying to abuse their wealth and privilege. But what he was doing was running, and we can talk about this because I did see legal versions of this that”
“I think that's possible. I would say probably more for the former reason you mentioned than for the latter, the idea that they need some people to pay full freight. So probably apart from the richest, richest universities that have tremendous endowments, colleges and universities that might be running on a tuition-driv”
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