BIG DEALS, BIG NAMES, BIG SHOTS: So, elite universities in America must mean a whole lot!

Bribery is a very big deal in America, supposedly a rule-of-law system.
For American celebrities (including big U.S. law firm partners) to commit bribery to get their kids into elite universities, it must mean elite universities are indeed a very, very, very big deal for the powerful and the rich...all those big shots!!!
What does that mean to us, Vietnamese Americans?
We applaud our children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and all those of us pioneers who got admitted to, and graduated from, the Ivy Leagues without quota, without affirmative action, and definitely without bribes! (In my case, for one thing, my parents were too poor to bribe anyone for me to be admitted to Harvard! For another thing, our elderlies couldn't negotiate the terms of a bribery deal with their broken English!)
"Luật rừng ở VN, làm ơn đừng di ta?n hay 'xuất khẩu" qua bên Mỹ cho chúng tôi khỏi phải vỡ̃ mô.ng vì giấc mộng Hoa Kỳ."   [America the Beautiful, please do not cause the Vietnamese law of the jungle to be emigrated or imported over here for our American dream to become the broken dream!"

I REST MY CASE!

https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/2019/03/12/in-through-the-side-door-wiretap-outlines-willkie-leaders-alleged-role-in-admissions-scandal-405-33333/