[csa]

> My question is can donors buy not only admission but also grades?

This made me laugh out loud.

There are majors at every university that are easy to graduate from. Often these are aimed precisely at academically unambitious athletes and well-connected mediocre students.

Harvard is no exception.

Getting into elite schools is the hard part. Graduating is not.

> But I'd guess those could be purchased as well.

Maybe? Not really? If you’re already part of that social circle and socio-economic status (SES), you don’t have to buy it. If you’re not already in that that SES, then building elite connections requires quite a bit of cultivation that, imho, is not easy for most college-aged kids to pull off, largely due to ignorance of SES/class distinctions in the US.

[Dylan16807]

I would say that certain majors being easy is a much smaller issue than getting the grades you want in any major.