Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot

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Anonymous wrote:I was just at Buckley now and the new truck tried to go in the car pool lane lol

“In late 2017, a guidance counselor at the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, a suburb of Los Angeles, wanted to know why USC was recruiting Matteo Sloane as a water polo player. The high school didn’t even have a team.

The boy’s father, Devin Sloane, founder and chief executive of aquaTECTURE, a Los Angeles-based company that invests in water-treatment systems, had hired Mr. Singer to bribe a USC official to identify Matteo as an athletic recruit, the affidavit said.

One of the campus officials accused of working with Mr. Singer, Donna Heinel, then the senior associate athletic director at USC, sent an email to the university’s admissions director to explain the discrepancy, according to the affidavit. “He plays at LA Water Polo Club during the year and travels international during the summer with the youth junior team in Italy,” she wrote on April 11. “I don’t know if the people at [his high school] are unaware.”

She added, “He is small but he has a long torso but short strong legs plus he is fast which helps him win the draws to start play after goals are scored.”

USC’s admissions director, not named in court papers, agreed to pass that information along. “They seemed unusually skeptical,” the admissions official said of the Buckley School. A spokeswoman for Buckley didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.”

Juicy!

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“PALO ALTO (CBS SF / AP) — The head of a Silicon Valley hedge fund who became ensnared in a massive college bribery scandal is stepping down.

Manuel Henriquez will be replaced as CEO and chairman of Hercules Capital in Palo Alto. He was arrested in New York City and released on $500,000 bail after a brief appearance in Manhattan federal court Tuesday.

Shares of the hedge fund plunged 9 percent on word of Henriquez’ arrest Tuesday

Hercules said Wednesday that Henriquez will still hold a seat on the board and will serve as an adviser.”


So the cheater is still on the Board????

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Anonymous wrote:Another parent in the scandal falls - Bill McGlashan

Bill McGlashan has resigned from TPG and The Rise Fund, its $2 billion impact-investment platform he co-founded with U2’s Bono, Richard Branson and Jeff Skoll among others.

TPG is the majority owner of CAA and helped launch STX Entertainment among other Hollywood entities. It paid $225 million in equity for a majority stake in the Hollywood agency in 2014. He stepped down from the STX board on Wednesday.



58F. WILLIAM E. McGLASHAN, Jr. https://www.justice.gov/file/1142876/download

130.Defendant WILLIAM E. McGLASHAN, Jr. is a resident of Mill Valley, California. McGLASHAN is a senior executive at a global private equity firm.

131.As set forth below, McGLASHAN participated in both the college entrance exam cheating scheme and the college recruitement scheme, including by conspiring to bribe Donna Heinel, the senior associate athletic director at the University of Southern California (“USC”), to facilitate his son’s admission to USC as a recruited athlete.15

132.CW-1 has advised law enforcement agents that McGLASHAN agreed to make a purported donation of $50,000 to KWF, with the understanding that CW-1 would arrange for CW-2 to serve as a purported proctor for McGLASHAN’s son’s ACT exam at a test center that CW-1 “controlled,” and that CW-2 would, in exchange for money, correct his son’s answers after the test was completed.

Is he being put on the board instead? Another parent resigned but remained on the Board. What a crap of sh*t.

Which one?

I'm waiting on the friend from the USC Board of Trustees who had Loughlin's daughter on his yacht in the Bahamas to be investigated.

That’s Rick Caruso. He’s really well known in LA. He built the Grove and other shopping destinations. I don’t believe he has done anything questionable...(on this particular matter)

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ADMISSIONS OFFICE: ur child was not accepted to our college
FELICITY HUFFMAN: then i will have to do a crime
ADMISSIONS OFFICE: u can just donate some money & we'll let em in
FELICITY HUFFMAN: a crime i shall do
ADMISSIONS OFFICE: just make a donation
FELICITY HUFFMAN: crime time

https://twitter.com/bobvulfov/status/1105497402524475392

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The Class Action Lawsuit against USC, Yale, etc will represent anyone who applied to these schools between 2012-2018. That will be a lot of students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another parent in the scandal falls - Bill McGlashan

Bill McGlashan has resigned from TPG and The Rise Fund, its $2 billion impact-investment platform he co-founded with U2’s Bono, Richard Branson and Jeff Skoll among others.

TPG is the majority owner of CAA and helped launch STX Entertainment among other Hollywood entities. It paid $225 million in equity for a majority stake in the Hollywood agency in 2014. He stepped down from the STX board on Wednesday.



58F. WILLIAM E. McGLASHAN, Jr. https://www.justice.gov/file/1142876/download

130.Defendant WILLIAM E. McGLASHAN, Jr. is a resident of Mill Valley, California. McGLASHAN is a senior executive at a global private equity firm.

131.As set forth below, McGLASHAN participated in both the college entrance exam cheating scheme and the college recruitement scheme, including by conspiring to bribe Donna Heinel, the senior associate athletic director at the University of Southern California (“USC”), to facilitate his son’s admission to USC as a recruited athlete.15

132.CW-1 has advised law enforcement agents that McGLASHAN agreed to make a purported donation of $50,000 to KWF, with the understanding that CW-1 would arrange for CW-2 to serve as a purported proctor for McGLASHAN’s son’s ACT exam at a test center that CW-1 “controlled,” and that CW-2 would, in exchange for money, correct his son’s answers after the test was completed.

Is he being put on the board instead? Another parent resigned but remained on the Board. What a crap of sh*t.

Which one?

I'm waiting on the friend from the USC Board of Trustees who had Loughlin's daughter on his yacht in the Bahamas to be investigated.

That’s Rick Caruso. He’s really well known in LA. He built the Grove and other shopping destinations. I don’t believe he has done anything questionable...(on this particular matter)

Manuel Henriquez

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Mr. Tobin got all three of his daughters into Yale through this scam? Now one of them is in Med School. That is disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Class Action Lawsuit against USC, Yale, etc will represent anyone who applied to these schools between 2012-2018. That will be a lot of students.

Oh wow, leave it to lawyers to try to make some money out of this, lol.

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I guess USNWR will have to omit a few schools from their list this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess USNWR will have to omit a few schools from their list this year.

No, they just need to add a new category to their points calculation - “how susceptible the school employees are to bribery?”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I guess USNWR will have to omit a few schools from their list this year.

No, they just need to add a new category to their points calculation - “how susceptible the school employees are to bribery?”

ha ha that should be about 50%. Isn't the peer rating about the same thing.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the naysayers - can’t leave early: we’ll, if you revamp the exam to that one can, why not?. Those who stay behind - hey, that is a choice they made.

Are you naysayers saying you prefer the system today that openly discriminates the poorer kids, inner city kids, disabled kids who don’t the proper time accommodation and would prefer the current system that can be abused by wealthy families?

This. Give everyone the same time and let the ones done early leave.

The TRULY exceptional kids can then brag that not only did they get a perfect score, they left with XXX hours to spare. They will take pride in not staying the entire time.

You don’t understand strivers. Plenty of kids in the TJ and Blair magnets will stay until the bitter end checking and re-checking their answers. Because their peers are and it’s an arms race. I had a kid in one of these places.

Meanwhile, kids with low processing speeds now have the same exact time as the Blair and TJ kids. Why is this helpful?

It is unlimited time. The extended time accommodations are not to give one a leg up over those who do not get them which u r implying they are. By removing time constraints, you would be removing the biggest abuse of the system and making it fairer to the poorer and inner city/rural kids. Kids who now get extended time accommodations would not be harmed by this.

So you go home at 10pm to sleep when the janitorial staff are closing the building, you look up the answers overnight, and then you return the next day all ready to ace the test? Or the school provides internet-free room and board for, what, up to a week, for test takers?

You are being deliberately obtuse. Today, are there more than 24 hours extended time accommodations? Or are u one of those w accommodations for your kid and it is giving them a leg up that u don’t want to give untimed tests to every kid?

I’m trying to *protect* accommodations from idiotic schemes like this one. You said time would be unlimited, now you’re implying there’s some time limit, but you’re being vague about it. Anyway you cut it, though, you’re not doing special needs kids any favors by giving them the same time limits as my magnet kid (I’m the pp above with the magnet kid).

My kid got into a top ivy without any accommodations, athletic, legacy, URM or development boosts. Just exceptional smarts and national-level talent in one of the arts

Then what are you afraid of? Kids who don't know the answers wont know them with extra time. But kids with disabilities unrelated to intelligence will be able to show what they know. Are you afraid of the competition?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I guess USNWR will have to omit a few schools from their list this year.

No, they just need to add a new category to their points calculation - “how susceptible the school employees are to bribery?”

ha ha that should be about 50%. Isn't the peer rating about the same thing.

All this will make these schools more popular tha ever, actually.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the naysayers - can’t leave early: we’ll, if you revamp the exam to that one can, why not?. Those who stay behind - hey, that is a choice they made.

Are you naysayers saying you prefer the system today that openly discriminates the poorer kids, inner city kids, disabled kids who don’t the proper time accommodation and would prefer the current system that can be abused by wealthy families?

This. Give everyone the same time and let the ones done early leave.

The TRULY exceptional kids can then brag that not only did they get a perfect score, they left with XXX hours to spare. They will take pride in not staying the entire time.

You don’t understand strivers. Plenty of kids in the TJ and Blair magnets will stay until the bitter end checking and re-checking their answers. Because their peers are and it’s an arms race. I had a kid in one of these places.

Meanwhile, kids with low processing speeds now have the same exact time as the Blair and TJ kids. Why is this helpful?

It is unlimited time. The extended time accommodations are not to give one a leg up over those who do not get them which u r implying they are. By removing time constraints, you would be removing the biggest abuse of the system and making it fairer to the poorer and inner city/rural kids. Kids who now get extended time accommodations would not be harmed by this.

So you go home at 10pm to sleep when the janitorial staff are closing the building, you look up the answers overnight, and then you return the next day all ready to ace the test? Or the school provides internet-free room and board for, what, up to a week, for test takers?

You are being deliberately obtuse. Today, are there more than 24 hours extended time accommodations? Or are u one of those w accommodations for your kid and it is giving them a leg up that u don’t want to give untimed tests to every kid?

I’m trying to *protect* accommodations from idiotic schemes like this one. You said time would be unlimited, now you’re implying there’s some time limit, but you’re being vague about it. Anyway you cut it, though, you’re not doing special needs kids any favors by giving them the same time limits as my magnet kid (I’m the pp above with the magnet kid).

My kid got into a top ivy without any accommodations, athletic, legacy, URM or development boosts. Just exceptional smarts and national-level talent in one of the arts

Then what are you afraid of? Kids who don't know the answers wont know them with extra time. But kids with disabilities unrelated to intelligence will be able to show what they know. Are you afraid of the competition?

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess USNWR will have to omit a few schools from their list this year.

No, they just need to add a new category to their points calculation - “how susceptible the school employees are to bribery?”

ha ha that should be about 50%. Isn't the peer rating about the same thing.

All this will make these schools more popular tha ever, actually.

Probably more college scammers will pop up.