Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot

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It was stated this has been going on since 2011. The list of people is probably very long and names are being hidden.

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Two college students suing some of those schools and the ringleader. I was wondering when someone would sue those schools.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/two-stanford-students-file-first-133412573.html

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Anonymous wrote:Lori Laughlin and spouse were particularly stupid considering their daughter already had a likely million dollar a year business as a social influencer. They would have been better off making her see a financial adviser and getting her investing like crazy so when she loses her looks or people stop caring about her, her money is earning money and she can live off investments.

Agree.

In this case, however, she leveraged a new contract related to being a college student influence, hawking dorm gear and so forth. Had she not been in college she would have had to limit herself to makeup, clubs and god knows what else.

Also, Mom said she never had a chance to go to college, and wanted her daughters to have that experience. Perhaps they can experience prison together.

I'm at a total loss as to why her family valued USC or UCLA so much over places like SMU, ASU, Arizona or SEC and lower ranked Big 10 universities she likely could have gotten into as a full-pay dumb rich kid from California? I understand USC and UCLA are more competitive than ever but for a ditz, why were they so obsessed? Doesn't make sense at all. Are there people who think USC is really, really prestigious?

would not send kid to SMU, ASU or SEC school. USC is fine and offers students a lot of opportunity. USC has a ton of successful Alumni (not from Cali or USC person). USC is also a hot school as far as college age students.

Because there aren't any successful alumni from SMU, ASU or SEC schools. We'll tell Tim Cook, Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Hugh Shelton, Krysten Sinema, Octavia Spencer, Kathy Bates, Aaron Spelling, Karen Hughes, Alex Cruz (CEO of British Airways), Blake Mycoskie (founder of Toms), Thaddeus Arroyo (CEO, AT&T Business Solutions and International), Whitney Wolfe Herd (founder and CEO, Bumble; co-founder, Tinder), Melissa Reiff (CEO, The Container Store), Edward B. Rust, Jr. (chair, State Farm Insurance Companies). (This is just a quick sample that I bothered to type, and I left off the names of CEOs on the SMU list that inherited the family business -- e.g., Hunt Oil, Tyson Foods). The "Famous Alumni of USC" list includes Neil Armstrong and a few big producers (Robert Zemeckis, George Lucas, Ron Howard), but after that, it's a list of famous actors. That's great if you want to be in the entertainment biz, but you realize that not everyone does, right? The first name on the USC list that popped up on Google is Will Ferrel (ahead of Neil Armstrong) and I think that just about says it all.

Just not something fam would do. Not popular in NE or Northeast. Does not mean there are no rich alum but the school are perceived differently in other regions of the country and by some non donut hole families. Just because someone from a school runs a company does not mean I would send my kid to a school. Warren Buffet went to Deal and Wilson high in NW DC. There are many poster on this board that would not send their kids to DC public school. Everyone (or almost everyone) should be able to agree that Warren Buffet has been very successful and is rich! Are you VA and MD people moving to DC so you can send your kid to DCPS?

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I suspect this is just the tip of the iceberg. More names and schools to follow.

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Anonymous wrote:New York Post article: Son of Abbotts defend his parents saying, "I believe everyone has a right to college, man."

https://nypost.com/2019/03/13/son-defends-parents-caught-in-college-admissions-scandal-while-smoking-blunt/

The NYPost article did the family no favors. In a way I'm feeling slight sympathy for the parents, if the two boys turned out so badly and useless despite all their advantages in life perhaps that was why they were desperate to get their daughter into a decent track.

Another example of shitty parenting; and the poor choices made by their spawn. Cause and effect.

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Anonymous wrote:Two college students suing some of those schools and the ringleader. I was wondering when someone would sue those schools.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/two-stanford-students-file-first-133412573.html

Well thousands and thousands of parents and students could sue for fraud. They should refund application fees for everyone that applied in the last 10 years and did not get in. All the real high scoring applicants that are told there are just not enough spots for all the smart kids- well that has taken on new meaning.

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Anonymous wrote:Two college students suing some of those schools and the ringleader. I was wondering when someone would sue those schools.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/two-stanford-students-file-first-133412573.html

They should be expelled for being narcissistic.

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Anonymous wrote:Two college students suing some of those schools and the ringleader. I was wondering when someone would sue those schools.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/two-stanford-students-file-first-133412573.html

Well thousands and thousands of parents and students could sue for fraud. They should refund application fees for everyone that applied in the last 10 years and did not get in. All the real high scoring applicants that are told there are just not enough spots for all the smart kids- well that has taken on new meaning.

Should we sue the College Board and ACT for abuse of the extended time accommodations? All tests should be untimed - enough of abuse by the wealthy. Level the playing field for EVERYONE- no more accommodations for extra time or calculators- give EVERYONE unlimited time and calculators.

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There aren’t any rich NE or East coast kids at SMU and colleges like it? You’re clueless. I personally know a handful of families that sent their less academically inclined daughters there. They’re are filthy rich and attended high dollar NYC prep schools. SMU, Tulane, Miami-Fl, Indiana, Miami-Oh, Pepperdine, GW

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder what will happen to the daughter of the CT law partner, Gordon Caplan.

So she goes to online high school for reasons I don't know, so in that sense at least she didn't have to face her peers this morning. She is in some tennis academy (maybe that's why she does online school so she can practice much of the day? travel to tournaments?) so she will have to eventually face her peers there. And yeah -- IDK how college admissions goes for her now for real. I mean I'm sure UConn or somewhere similarly average could take her based on just her record. I don't think your parents' names go on your college app -- so maybe just keep dad's very common name off of it and hope UConn doesn't put it together that you're THAT Caplan? Or go to an out of state bigger state school that's a degree factory like Rutgers or Penn State...

Yes, Caplan is a very common name... but NOT when it's spelled with a C, lol!

Kaplan is almost always spelled with a K.
However, there were Jews who came here after WWII that were terrified that antisemitism would be just as prevalent in America as it was in Europe, so they'd make a slight change in the spelling of their name (Katz became Kates -- Cohen became Cone or Cohn -- Rosenberg became Rose, etc).

I did a paper in college for my sociology class & spent a fair amount of time researching familial names, the rationale behind why they were changed & the names true history & lineage being lost from that point forward.

Never ONCE once did I come across Kaplan changed to "Caplan" in all of my research, so you're absolutely right... I'm afraid she's always going to be known as "THAT" Caplan.
* Ironically, she can always change it back to Kaplan & she'll be completely autonomous with the thousands of other Kaplan's with a K, lol).

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Anonymous wrote:Two college students suing some of those schools and the ringleader. I was wondering when someone would sue those schools.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/two-stanford-students-file-first-133412573.html

Well thousands and thousands of parents and students could sue for fraud. They should refund application fees for everyone that applied in the last 10 years and did not get in. All the real high scoring applicants that are told there are just not enough spots for all the smart kids- well that has taken on new meaning.

Should we sue the College Board and ACT for abuse of the extended time accommodations? All tests should be untimed - enough of abuse by the wealthy. Level the playing field for EVERYONE- no more accommodations for extra time or calculators- give EVERYONE unlimited time and calculators.

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The schools should most definitely be held financially responsible, in some capacity. If there is any chance it serves as a deterrent for the schools to scrutinize and overlook more, and less apt to look the other way - it would be worth it.

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Anonymous wrote:There aren’t any rich NE or East coast kids at SMU and colleges like it? You’re clueless. I personally know a handful of families that sent their less academically inclined daughters there. They’re are filthy rich and attended high dollar NYC prep schools. SMU, Tulane, Miami-Fl, Indiana, Miami-Oh, Pepperdine, GW

The NYC prep set also loves Rollins College in Florida for the less than academically inclined.

Signed, person who attended school with paris hilton

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Anonymous wrote:Two college students suing some of those schools and the ringleader. I was wondering when someone would sue those schools.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/two-stanford-students-file-first-133412573.html

Well thousands and thousands of parents and students could sue for fraud. They should refund application fees for everyone that applied in the last 10 years and did not get in. All the real high scoring applicants that are told there are just not enough spots for all the smart kids- well that has taken on new meaning.

Should we sue the College Board and ACT for abuse of the extended time accommodations? All tests should be untimed - enough of abuse by the wealthy. Level the playing field for EVERYONE- no more accommodations for extra time or calculators- give EVERYONE unlimited time and calculators.

We need to get rid of ramps too. If the kids tried harder they can learn to climb stairs ... they just don't work hard enough.

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Anonymous wrote:Two college students suing some of those schools and the ringleader. I was wondering when someone would sue those schools.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/two-stanford-students-file-first-133412573.html

Well thousands and thousands of parents and students could sue for fraud. They should refund application fees for everyone that applied in the last 10 years and did not get in. All the real high scoring applicants that are told there are just not enough spots for all the smart kids- well that has taken on new meaning.

Should we sue the College Board and ACT for abuse of the extended time accommodations? All tests should be untimed - enough of abuse by the wealthy. Level the playing field for EVERYONE- no more accommodations for extra time or calculators- give EVERYONE unlimited time and calculators.

+1

The schools should most definitely be held financially responsible, in some capacity. If there is any chance it serves as a deterrent for the schools to scrutinize and overlook more, and less apt to look the other way - it would be worth it.

Their case would be stronger if the one who wasn't admitted to USC wasn't currently a student at Stanford...

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Anonymous wrote:Two college students suing some of those schools and the ringleader. I was wondering when someone would sue those schools.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/two-stanford-students-file-first-133412573.html

Well thousands and thousands of parents and students could sue for fraud. They should refund application fees for everyone that applied in the last 10 years and did not get in. All the real high scoring applicants that are told there are just not enough spots for all the smart kids- well that has taken on new meaning.

Should we sue the College Board and ACT for abuse of the extended time accommodations? All tests should be untimed - enough of abuse by the wealthy. Level the playing field for EVERYONE- no more accommodations for extra time or calculators- give EVERYONE unlimited time and calculators.

We need to get rid of ramps too. If the kids tried harder they can learn to climb stairs ... they just don't work hard enough.

See? U just proved the PP point. Why the resistance to give EVERYONE untimed tests?