"I understand the people who give money to those who need money. The people who give money to those who already have all the money they need — I don't understand that. What are they thinking?"
— author Malcolm Gladwell
Not too long ago, I started to hear rumors that certain well-known private high schools in Japan were helping their students gain admission to elite U.S. colleges by inflating applicant grade point averages, or GPAs, the average of all grades received throughout high school.