Why are there no DC families being called out on this college fraud

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because dahling, we are smarter - we use our private schools counselors to facilitate our donations to the school (and those counselors will call these colleges on our behalf as we just donated $500,000 at private school fundraiser) and our little spawns are athletes (in tennis/squash/volleyball/) taking easy A classes at our $50k privates and our doctors/consultants already arranged for the extra time accommodation

yes but this is all legal. I want to know who here is legit paying off rowing coaches.

You’d be naive to think they aren’t.

It’s a good idea as long as you don’t get caught.

I bet this stretches back years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to see no one in the area called out in the fraud scam. Why is this? I have a few theories:

1) Singer hadn't cracked the DC/east coast market yet
2) People in DC are doing this but it's sneakier so it hasn't been found out yet
3) people in DC would not be interested in this fraud, it's too beyond the pail for even us

what do you think?

LA is a dumb liberal bubble.

DC is a smart liberal bubble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to see no one in the area called out in the fraud scam. Why is this? I have a few theories:

1) Singer hadn't cracked the DC/east coast market yet
2) People in DC are doing this but it's sneakier so it hasn't been found out yet
3) people in DC would not be interested in this fraud, it's too beyond the pail for even us

what do you think?

LA is a dumb liberal bubble.

DC is a smart liberal bubble.

... yeah. I mean. Not as smart as we think we are, but smarter than LA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because dahling, we are smarter - we use our private schools counselors to facilitate our donations to the school (and those counselors will call these colleges on our behalf as we just donated $500,000 at private school fundraiser) and our little spawns are athletes (in tennis/squash/volleyball/) taking easy A classes at our $50k privates and our doctors/consultants already arranged for the extra time accommodation

yes but this is all legal. I want to know who here is legit paying off rowing coaches.

It may be legal but end of day, it is the same thing - how to game the system for your kids advantage in admission to top schools

No, it is not the same, not anything close to the same.

[Anonymous]

I’m sure that Operation Varsity Blues is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to college coaching and admission staff who have been corrupted.

[Anonymous]

I would imagine anyone who had utilized Singer's services in the past and not on the list of those charged would be worried about the next phase of arrests...maybe some from DC in that batch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to see no one in the area called out in the fraud scam. Why is this? I have a few theories:

1) Singer hadn't cracked the DC/east coast market yet
2) People in DC are doing this but it's sneakier so it hasn't been found out yet
3) people in DC would not be interested in this fraud, it's too beyond the pail for even us

what do you think?

LA is a dumb liberal bubble.

DC is a smart liberal bubble.

this was EXACTLY what my husband said last night when we were discussing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure that Operation Varsity Blues is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to college coaching and admission staff who have been corrupted.

This

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My theory is that in general East Coast families are hyper focused on college from an early age and, what pp said, through red shirting, private schools, tutors etc. are gaming the system that way.

They do all that in LA and SF too.

I think it’s just that Singer was a west coast operation. Becoming a client was probably a word of mouth thing.

I bet there are similar schemes on the east coast.

+1 The west coast scheme got caught. I would bet my house there are similar schemes on the East Coast, just with different customers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because dahling, we are smarter - we use our private schools counselors to facilitate our donations to the school (and those counselors will call these colleges on our behalf as we just donated $500,000 at private school fundraiser) and our little spawns are athletes (in tennis/squash/volleyball/) taking easy A classes at our $50k privates and our doctors/consultants already arranged for the extra time accommodation

yes but this is all legal. I want to know who here is legit paying off rowing coaches.

It may be legal but end of day, it is the same thing - how to game the system for your kids advantage in admission to top schools

No, it is not the same, not anything close to the same.

It is - u need to check your privilege

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My theory is that in general East Coast families are hyper focused on college from an early age and, what pp said, through red shirting, private schools, tutors etc. are gaming the system that way.

I agree. I think DC is too smart for the LA shenanigans.

[Anonymous]

there are plenty of DMV families destroying evidence this weekend

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to see no one in the area called out in the fraud scam. Why is this? I have a few theories:

1) Singer hadn't cracked the DC/east coast market yet
2) People in DC are doing this but it's sneakier so it hasn't been found out yet
3) people in DC would not be interested in this fraud, it's too beyond the pail for even us

what do you think?

LA is a dumb liberal bubble.

DC is a smart liberal bubble.

... yeah. I mean. Not as smart as we think we are, but smarter than LA.

Politics is show business for ugly people...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because dahling, we are smarter - we use our private schools counselors to facilitate our donations to the school (and those counselors will call these colleges on our behalf as we just donated $500,000 at private school fundraiser) and our little spawns are athletes (in tennis/squash/volleyball/) taking easy A classes at our $50k privates and our doctors/consultants already arranged for the extra time accommodation

yes but this is all legal. I want to know who here is legit paying off rowing coaches.

It may be legal but end of day, it is the same thing - how to game the system for your kids advantage in admission to top schools

No, it is not the same, not anything close to the same.

yea it is.. it's immoral.

[Anonymous]

Maybe East Coast families bribe colleges the legal way, by making huge donations. Think the Bushes, Trumps and Kushners.

(I don’t get the OCD pp who has to bring politics into everything, but might as well point out that these are all conservatives.)