Sidwell connection to crooked college fixer Rick Singer

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder whether some Sidwell parents used Singer in the past and recommended him to the school. Which would raise new questions about the authenticity of those admissions. God forbid!

Regardless of the merits of the case, it is so ironic that he was used to evaluate her case and concluded that she was not qualified for the Ivies and yet at the same time he was getting other students into Ivies under false pretences.

I wonder if you used Singer. Maybe you referred him to Sidwell. I wonder if your kids cheated on their SATs. See how “wondering” works?

DP. And your wondering makes me wonder why you're so attached to him. I wonder if you paid him yourself? Perhaps you used him?

The first PP is spot on. Someone who is a liar and a fraud is being judged worthy to evaluate this girl's application? And you believe him? Really? Better than that, the folks at Sidwell believed him?

The rumors about Singer have been swirling for years. That anyone with any ethics or morals would come nearer to him than a 100 miles is too weird to be true. If you really think he is so trustworthy then I have a bridge I'd like you to see. I'll get you a good deal...

Yes because it’s impossible to think that Singer is a liar and a fraud AND that it’s ridiculous to speculate that Sidwell parents hired him in the absence of any evidence. I can see how holding these two thoughts in your pea sized brain at the same time is too taxing. If Sidwell parents hired him those facts will come out soon enough and we can all enjoy roasting them over an open flame. Until then, yes, it is just as likely that I hired him as that you hired him.

[Anonymous]

Several Sidwell families in fact used Singer but none recently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder whether some Sidwell parents used Singer in the past and recommended him to the school. Which would raise new questions about the authenticity of those admissions. God forbid!

Regardless of the merits of the case, it is so ironic that he was used to evaluate her case and concluded that she was not qualified for the Ivies and yet at the same time he was getting other students into Ivies under false pretences.

I wonder if you used Singer. Maybe you referred him to Sidwell. I wonder if your kids cheated on their SATs. See how “wondering” works?

DP. And your wondering makes me wonder why you're so attached to him. I wonder if you paid him yourself? Perhaps you used him?

The first PP is spot on. Someone who is a liar and a fraud is being judged worthy to evaluate this girl's application? And you believe him? Really? Better than that, the folks at Sidwell believed him?

The rumors about Singer have been swirling for years. That anyone with any ethics or morals would come nearer to him than a 100 miles is too weird to be true. If you really think he is so trustworthy then I have a bridge I'd like you to see. I'll get you a good deal...

Yes because it’s impossible to think that Singer is a liar and a fraud AND that it’s ridiculous to speculate that Sidwell parents hired him in the absence of any evidence. I can see how holding these two thoughts in your pea sized brain at the same time is too taxing. If Sidwell parents hired him those facts will come out soon enough and we can all enjoy roasting them over an open flame. Until then, yes, it is just as likely that I hired him as that you hired him.

Well, me with my pea-sized brain never hired him because my pea-sized brain realizes that where there is smoke there is likely fire so we stayed way far away from him. But that's just me and my pea-sized brain. That guy oozes used-car-salesman. If you walked away from meeting him and didn't check your pocket for your wallet then you deserve what you got. Which is why it is so ludicrous for people, like the people at Sidwell, to say "we didn't know."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Several Sidwell families in fact used Singer but none recently.

If that is true (and I highly doubt it) and there was any wrongdoing, then it should be exposed and prosecuted.

Big if, though.

[Anonymous]

As a current Sidwell high school parent, I am appalled that the college counselors would change a kids recommendation from one college application to another. No wonder the college counseling office has such a poor reputation year after year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a current Sidwell high school parent, I am appalled that the college counselors would change a kids recommendation from one college application to another. No wonder the college counseling office has such a poor reputation year after year. [/quote

Don’t know what you mean

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a current Sidwell high school parent, I am appalled that the college counselors would change a kids recommendation from one college application to another. No wonder the college counseling office has such a poor reputation year after year. [/quote

Don’t know what you mean

“From one college application to another”?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a current Sidwell high school parent, I am appalled that the college counselors would change a kids recommendation from one college application to another. No wonder the college counseling office has such a poor reputation year after year.

I was surprised by this too. Do all the DC private high schools do this or is this just at Sidwell?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder whether some Sidwell parents used Singer in the past and recommended him to the school. Which would raise new questions about the authenticity of those admissions. God forbid!

Regardless of the merits of the case, it is so ironic that he was used to evaluate her case and concluded that she was not qualified for the Ivies and yet at the same time he was getting other students into Ivies under false pretences.

I wonder if you used Singer. Maybe you referred him to Sidwell. I wonder if your kids cheated on their SATs. See how “wondering” works?

DP. And your wondering makes me wonder why you're so attached to him. I wonder if you paid him yourself? Perhaps you used him?

The first PP is spot on. Someone who is a liar and a fraud is being judged worthy to evaluate this girl's application? And you believe him? Really? Better than that, the folks at Sidwell believed him?

The rumors about Singer have been swirling for years. That anyone with any ethics or morals would come nearer to him than a 100 miles is too weird to be true. If you really think he is so trustworthy then I have a bridge I'd like you to see. I'll get you a good deal...

Yes because it’s impossible to think that Singer is a liar and a fraud AND that it’s ridiculous to speculate that Sidwell parents hired him in the absence of any evidence. I can see how holding these two thoughts in your pea sized brain at the same time is too taxing. If Sidwell parents hired him those facts will come out soon enough and we can all enjoy roasting them over an open flame. Until then, yes, it is just as likely that I hired him as that you hired him.

Well, me with my pea-sized brain never hired him because my pea-sized brain realizes that where there is smoke there is likely fire so we stayed way far away from him. But that's just me and my pea-sized brain. That guy oozes used-car-salesman. If you walked away from meeting him and didn't check your pocket for your wallet then you deserve what you got. Which is why it is so ludicrous for people, like the people at Sidwell, to say "we didn't know."

So you knew about Singer BEFORE he was arrested? You even met with him? Wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a current Sidwell high school parent, I am appalled that the college counselors would change a kids recommendation from one college application to another. No wonder the college counseling office has such a poor reputation year after year.

I was surprised by this too. Do all the DC private high schools do this or is this just at Sidwell?

I think those forms are meant to relate the applicant to the cohort of other applicants, and as such, they have to change from one school to another. Unless the applicant is the tippy-top of students.

In other words, for this student, she was a strong candidate for Spellman but maybe a middle applicant, as compared to her cohort, for Harvard. If the schools college guidance office isn't honest with the universities, they won't have credibility.

I am hard pressed to understand your complaint here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a current Sidwell high school parent, I am appalled that the college counselors would change a kids recommendation from one college application to another. No wonder the college counseling office has such a poor reputation year after year.

I was surprised by this too. Do all the DC private high schools do this or is this just at Sidwell?

I think those forms are meant to relate the applicant to the cohort of other applicants, and as such, they have to change from one school to another. Unless the applicant is the tippy-top of students.

In other words, for this student, she was a strong candidate for Spellman but maybe a middle applicant, as compared to her cohort, for Harvard. If the schools college guidance office isn't honest with the universities, they won't have credibility.

I am hard pressed to understand your complaint here.

Because that’s not really how the question is worded, and because it allows the counselors to boost or torpedo particular applications.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a current Sidwell high school parent, I am appalled that the college counselors would change a kids recommendation from one college application to another. No wonder the college counseling office has such a poor reputation year after year.

I was surprised by this too. Do all the DC private high schools do this or is this just at Sidwell?

I think those forms are meant to relate the applicant to the cohort of other applicants, and as such, they have to change from one school to another. Unless the applicant is the tippy-top of students.

In other words, for this student, she was a strong candidate for Spellman but maybe a middle applicant, as compared to her cohort, for Harvard. If the schools college guidance office isn't honest with the universities, they won't have credibility.

I am hard pressed to understand your complaint here.

Because that’s not really how the question is worded, and because it allows the counselors to boost or torpedo particular applications.

That is always the case. They have to rate the applicants to the cohort applying. Its like the line from "The Incredibles" - when everyone is special, no one is - if the college counselors tell the colleges that every one of the applicants is a 10 out of 10 across the board without distinguishing among applicants, who who is lying? They will have no credibility with the colleges if everyone is a 10. It just isn't realistic that 15 people applying to Yale are going to get top A1 recs from the school.

[Anonymous]

In that case, quaker values or not, Sidwell should be transparent about the fact that they DO rank the students, and that ranking will matter which colleges the students can apply to. It looks like parents did not get that memo.

[Anonymous]

+1

[Anonymous]

The Singer connection is easily the least interesting part of this story.