Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot

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Anonymous wrote:Is there a list of all of the colleges involved?

Harvard, Yale, Stanford, University of Southern California, UCLA, and Georgetown

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Anonymous wrote:Here's the guy's college counseling firm - http://www.thekeyworldwide.com/

And then he ran a charitable foundation which would provide a "full scholarship" to his college counseling service to 30 disadvantaged students. Parents would write a large check to this foundation, get a charitable deduction write-off, and Singer pocketed the dough.

http://www.thekeyworldwide.com/the_key_foundation/

Wait, did any kids actually get a full scholarship? Or was that bogus, too? Pretty brazen if no one got a scholarship, and easy to verify.

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I’m shocked, shocked that this has rattled people here.

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to get the data on these kids and compare their success to the rest of the population in their respective schools.

They probably performed the same.

I also wonder how far back this goes. I'm sure some of the children who benefited have graduated already. What happens to their degrees? Do they get revoked/nullified/whatever you call it?

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Anonymous wrote:I sort of feel bad for the kids - in some cases they probably didn't even know this was happening, and now they are screwed.

I think Buckingham's son was totally blindsided. Also are indictments sealed until release? So did the parents in the scandal have time to prepare before this morning?

Not that I'm shedding tears for them but a LOT of them have open social media right now. Too bad proud mom is heading to the slammer.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's the guy's college counseling firm - http://www.thekeyworldwide.com/

And then he ran a charitable foundation which would provide a "full scholarship" to his college counseling service to 30 disadvantaged students. Parents would write a large check to this foundation, get a charitable deduction write-off, and Singer pocketed the dough.

http://www.thekeyworldwide.com/the_key_foundation/

Wait, did any kids actually get a full scholarship? Or was that bogus, too? Pretty brazen if no one got a scholarship, and easy to verify.

Bogus.

He just pocketed the money (and the bribers pocketed the tax deductions).

You can call it tax-efficient bribing.

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Anonymous wrote:Is caltech the only school left in the country that isn’t sketchy?

State schools have their scandals.

Private’s are rocked by back doors and side doors.

It seems like caltech might be the only school in America where you can trust the admissions office

Reed. Common core & no sports. But it’s a good school, not an elite one. Maybe Harvey Mudd too?

Reed is just too druggie for me.

And I say this as someone that is weed friendly, smokes regularly and let both of my kids after they turned 16 to smoke in the house.

Reed is a different level though.

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Anonymous wrote:Felicity Huffman's husband (not indicted) was chatting about how 'difficult' the admission process was just two months ago. Guess its pretty hard to wipe your tears with hundreds of thousands as you cut a check.

https://people.com/movies/felicity-huffman-william-h-macy-stressful-college-admission-bribery-scandal/

We’re right now in the thick of college application time, which is so stressful. I am voting that once she gets accepted, she maybe takes a year off. God doesn’t let you be 18 twice. I know from casting, if you need a 25-, 26-year-old actress, there are a lot of them out there and they’re really good. But if you need a 15-, 16-year-old actress, it’s tough. Sofia looks young. I think this is an opportunity for her. But it’s just my opinion, and we’ll see what she wants to do, what Felicity thinks and how the chips fall. My daughter Georgia, she’s interested in politics, political science and pursuing that. She’s in a very academic school and killing it.

Shameless

They only did it for their first daughter but backed out on doing it for the second.

The second is still working on her PSATs in high school. Trust me there was plenty of time.

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Anonymous wrote:Is USC even that hard to get into? Who the hell would pay $500k to go there?

Life is unfair. It always has been.

I see this with private schools in the area and travel sports teams. Kids that don't deserve or haven't earned a spot academically/athletically, but mommy and daddy have a big checkbook.

We have declined offers at travel clubs and then get the call they'll move our kid up if we stay. WTF? No. We don't get on teams or into schools that way.

Yeah, I'm FB friends with someone on that list - I just looked and kid 1 went to CalPoly SLO, kid 2 went to UCLA and kid 3 went to USC. I'm shocked they would do this just to get their kids into marginally better colleges. Did brag on FB though about the UCLA and USC admissions (nothing about Cal Poly - that kid probably has nothing to do with it).

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Anonymous wrote:Why would a latino family need to do this?

Jesus, you guys get massive URM hooks already!

The Beckies are understandable- Beckies are gonna Becky.

Well...his daughter couldn't hit a ball shot by a toddler and she was probably dumb as a box of rocks. Georgetown has standards.

I found her LinkedIn. She’s a Spanish major (who majors in Spanish?), yet has cushy investment bank internships.

Internships are from daddy's friends or at his company - seen it all the time.

And actually I knew a kid FLUENT in Spanish from birth who took that at his college foreign language. It was brilliant since it was an easy A for him and got him out of the language requirement.

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I feel like there's a real viral marketing opportunity for ASU here. Hope they take advantage of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Let see manaford got 40 months for betraying his country.

Rich white people don't go to jail for stuff like this.

Trump just paid a fine (from his foundation) for bribing an official, so yea, rich white people don't get jail time for this kind of stuff.

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Let this wonderful law enforcement work be looked at as warning to anyone, anywhere who cheats or bends the rules to get their kids into some school or p or whatever.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there a list of all of the colleges involved?

Harvard, Yale, Stanford, University of Southern California, UCLA, and Georgetown

and Wake Forest, Texas, and University of San Diego

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Anonymous wrote:I sort of feel bad for the kids - in some cases they probably didn't even know this was happening, and now they are screwed.

Yeah. " SAT score? I don't recall ever taking it. Glad the good schools don't require it anymore"...or something like that?