Colleges+Google+Ads= Gullibility

I find this issue relatively unimportant, the fact of the matter is if you are trust some random website to send your information without checking the credentials of said website, the blame is also very much on you. Another thought that comes to mind... why wouldn't you just find the actual website for the college and send you shit in that way. To me it seems this is mostly a problem for the lazy. I mean I'm one of the laziest people I know and I wouldn't even go about finding a college in such a way, it just doesn't make much sense to me... I would send my information in the mail before I went to a 3rd party website to apply to a specific college.

But maybe I'm missing the point. While I do believe that the individual is partially responsible for "falling" for this scheme, I also believe the people who created these sites are pretty much scum. The fact that the way they choose to make money is by fooling unsuspecting high school graduates into believing they're sending they're four years of scholastic labor to the school of their dreams essentially, but are redirecting them however to schools that pay them to do so is completely ridiculous. These people aren't any better than paparazzi, both make their money by exploiting those who are most vulnerable to exploitation. Those who apply for colleges are basically throwing in all their cards for the mere chance to be accepted to these educational juggernauts known as colleges. It's incredibly daunting, and the fact that people use this opportunity to fool them into giving their hand to someone they had not intended on is quite distasteful.

This article also brings up the point that the colleges basically pay these sites to do this, and for that I would have to say the colleges are the worst offenders of them all. If you need to trick people into applying to your college, to me that reflects terribly on them. What student would be happy going to a college they had never intended on going just because some assholes forwarded their application to a completely different school? Colleges that do this must be really self conscious or completely corrupt.

Nevertheless, if there is anything this should teach you it's that you can't trust everything, especially if it's on the internet... even more so on google. Do your homework before you trust some random website with your future and realize there are people out there who will do anything for money.