Affluent parents surrender custody of their kids to “scam” their way into needs-based college scholarships

Propublica Illinois has identified “dozens of suburban Chicago families” who surrendered custody of their children during the kids’ junior and senior years of high-school, turning them over to aunts, grandparents, friends, and cousins, so that the kids claim to be independent and qualify for needs-based scholarships, crowding out the poor kids the scholarship was designed for.
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