An open letter to Felicity Huffman and other anxiety-riddled parents of high school students

Good news! Now you can pay a college counselor a lot of money and it's legal!

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Dear Felicity,

I meant to write this back in December, after your interview about Operation Varsity Blues aired, but then I got distracted with the holidays and, since the internet has a short memory, whatever I had to say didn’t seem that relevant anymore. But then this morning, New York Magazine ran a story called Paying for a Perfect College Application: How the Super-Rich Are Playing to Win When Everyone Else Wants to Level the Playing Field (see what I mean about the short memory?) and I was like, no, this is still a thing. Now parents can pay a 28-year-old Yale graduate $120,000 a year to turn their student into “Ivy bait” (New York Magazine’s words, not mine). And it’s not against the law!