Rich parents still exploiting loopholes to get their kids into Ivy League via golf, fencing and crew

Rich parents still exploiting loopholes to get their kids into Ivy League via golf, fencing and crew

Ivy League admissions rates have dropped into the low single digits, but ultra-privileged families have a hack up their sleeve: getting their kids recruited for hyper-specialized sports like golf, water polo and fencing.

POLITICS: How rich families use sports as a backdoor to the Ivy League

They’re gaming the system. Seven years after the Varsity Blues scandal that saw parents like Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin scamming to get their kids into elite colleges by bribing coaches to recruit them as athletes or using fraudulent test scores, the wealthy are still using niche sports to give their kids unfair — though not illegal — advantages. “Families definitely come to me and say, ‘You know what? I want my child to be a recruited a…