In the I-showed-up-late-to-this-party department, I’m just now reading today’s depressing expose of rich families cheating and bribing their way into elite college admissions. As Inside Higher Ed reports, fancy schools such as Yale, Stanford, and Georgetown have been charged with an array of admissions improprieties.

I’m saddened and embarrassed to read these reports, but I gotta ask: Is anyone really surprised that rich people buy their way into elite colleges? Have those people really never seen Thornton Melon’s work?