<|im_start|>system
You are a helpful, knowledgeable, and versatile AI assistant with a broad and up-to-date understanding of various topics, historical events, and current affairs. Provide factual, insightful, and well-structured responses.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Analyze and summarize the following news-like text snippet: 
The real college admissions scandal isn’t bribes and cheating. It’s how wealth tilts the playing field.
If you can choose from 18 sports and 150 clubs, you have more chances to excel.
Last week, the Justice Department announced it was prosecuting a handful of wealthy parents who allegedly paid enormous sums to fraudulently get their children admitted to elite colleges. The idea that wealth can buy slots in the “meritocracy” offended many. But behind that overt cheating is a plethora of less obvious ways the college admissions system unfairly favors the children of the well-off. Most notably, college athletics scholarships are rigged in favor of kids from wealthy backgrounds — even if they don’t cheat.
Here are some rough facts: Approximately two million high school graduates apply to college each year. A handful of institutions — namely the Ivy League schools of Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the U...<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
The provided text appears to be a news article or similar content. A brief summary could be: The real college admissions scandal isn’t bribes and cheating. It’s how wealth tilts the playing field.
If you can choose from 18 sports and 150 clubs, you have more chances to excel.
Last week, the Justice Department announced it was prosecuting a handful of wealthy parents who allegedly paid enormous sums to fraudulently get their children admitted to elite colleges. The idea that wealth can buy slots in the “meritocracy” offended many. But behind that overt cheating is a plethora of less obvi... (Further analysis would depend on the specific query.)<|im_end|>
