College admission scandal

[sariana]

I don't understand why these people didn't just buy a building to get their kid(s) in, you know, the old-fashioned way for rich people to guarantee admission. (Not that I don't support endowments and other contributions, and I don't really care if they buy their way in by naming a building.) It just doesn't make sense to me.

[niccig]

I don't understand why these people didn't just buy a building to get their kid(s) in, you know, the old-fashioned way for rich people to guarantee admission. (Not that I don't support endowments and other contributions, and I don't really care if they buy their way in by naming a building.) It just doesn't make sense to me.

Because a building costs way more money


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[Globetrotter]

There were CEOS, Mossimo (designer), others too. As niccig said, These kids already had it made!

[DualvansMommy]

There were CEOS, Mossimo (designer), others too. As niccig said, These kids already had it made!

I also read quickly how Huffman’s oldest daughter really wanted to get in USC as her only choice. Also kiddo made YouTube video of herself saying she’s just in to do game days and party. Got a lot of throwback for that comment she made, so something tells me I wouldn’t be too surprised if the kiddo was aware of what moms doing to get her in.


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[JBaxter]

I hope any and all that are still students get expelled.

[Globetrotter]

Omg
In some cases the parents are trying to do this without the kids knowing what they’re doing. I mean the level of deceit is just astounding to me. But maybe this is how rich privileged people think.

https://deadspin.com/here-are-all-the-incredible-details-from-the-college-ad-1833236579?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=dea dspin_copy&utm_campaign=top

[wendibird22]

In the cases with the “athletes” it was the team/coach that took the bribe so the kid never had to play, just get admitted on athletic talent instead of academic talent. With the academic testing deceit these parents were paying for fake disability accommodation needs so this would theoretically follow them into college and therefore keep them enrolled longer with poor grades. But honestly most colleges keep you enrolled so long as you stay above a 2.0 so a kid who isn’t smart enough on paper to get into Yale or Stanford may be smart enough to keep their head above water at a 2.0. Plus once in, is someone really going to kick a famous/rich person’s kid out?


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[div_0305]

In the cases with the “athletes” it was the team/coach that took the bribe so the kid never had to play, just get admitted on athletic talent instead of academic talent. With the academic testing deceit these parents were paying for fake disability accommodation needs so this would theoretically follow them into college and therefore keep them enrolled longer with poor grades. But honestly most colleges keep you enrolled so long as you stay above a 2.0 so a kid who isn’t smart enough on paper to get into Yale or Stanford may be smart enough to keep their head above water at a 2.0. Plus once in, is someone really going to kick a famous/rich person’s kid out?


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They kids/parents probably paid people to take the tests in college, too. It's a huge scam. People pay others to sit all kinds of tests--MCAT, LSAT, SAT, ACT, the bar exam, and university exams. There was recently a news piece on NPR talking about how much cheating is done from international students from a certain country. Some of those students who were caught cheating at one particular university were trying to file a counterclaim that they were racially profiled--which they probably were. Something needs to be done to level the playing field for honest people, but I'm not sure what. These people are all from the most privileged backgrounds.

ETA: I know people who sent their kids to medical school in the Caribbean for the same reasons. Their kids could not have gotten into med school in the US, so they sent them to schools in the Caribbean, and then they finagle their way into getting licensed in the US and get them residencies at low grade hospitals through their contacts.

[SnuggleBuggles]

An Ivy League school has never been of interest here. We’ll happily settle for a “lesser” school. Not that anywhere is totally immune but it’s nice not to drive ourselves nutty trying to play the Ivy League game.


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[mom2binsd]

The Deadspin article is really interesting. At the end are some of Lori Loughlins daughter's instagram posts that illustrate that she probably wasn't up for college, apparently she found going to class hard.

The use of fake athletic photo's/fake profiles (a 5'5" kid who was supposedly a basketball recruit), kids playing sports that weren't even offered at their schools, although I shouldn't be shocked, obviously there are not enough checks and balances to prevent this from happening.