The college admissions scandal bell tolls for thee, Harvard

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard fencing coach's house sells for almost twice its assessed value. Town assessor notes: "makes no sense." It was bought by a wealthy Maryland businessman whose kid was subsequently accepted to Harvard and joined the fencing team.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/04/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard/EIWVMIxUFQ1XweY1xfB1GK/story.html

I love so much about this story. The house is in my home town of Needham and the coach is a neighbor of my parents who is kind of an a$$. I also think the whole fencing/St. Albans connection makes me happy that DD chose GDS over NCS for high school.

That’s not a very nice thing to say about your parents.

Why are her parents slighted bc a person in her neighborhood is an a$$.

I get what she is saying 100%. My sisters kids attend a lacrosse powerhouse in PA. The school acts like every lacrosse player is this perfect kid when they get admitted to harvard but have never taken an honors class. So the top players on the team all punch above their weight in admissions almost to the point where the rest of the students feel like what am I doing here?

Take that environment to NCS where a student who is not a fencer thinks why go to NCS where they admissions ppl will push the school's good (but not great) student fencers to harvard but they do f*$k-all for your non fencing kid.

Based on her sentence construction, she called her parents an a$$. Based on her post, it kind of made sense because the apple didn’t seem to fall too far from the tree.

You realize that neither NCS nor STA has a fencing program don’t you? Neither school does f*$k-all for athletes who don’t participate in a school sport. You obviously don’t have any idea what you’re talking about.

The sentence construction was "a neighbor [singular] of my parents [plural] who is kind of an a$$" The use of "is" as a verb meant that the neighbor (singular) was the a$$ not the parents.

I admit I dont know much about NCS or STA. My comment was about a different school which I do know about. The point is if the private trades on their sports to the point where non-students question what they are doing its a bad balance.

If you had balls you’d be a man. The “if” is pretty important when you don’t know what you’re talking about.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard fencing coach's house sells for almost twice its assessed value. Town assessor notes: "makes no sense." It was bought by a wealthy Maryland businessman whose kid was subsequently accepted to Harvard and joined the fencing team.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/04/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard/EIWVMIxUFQ1XweY1xfB1GK/story.html

I love so much about this story. The house is in my home town of Needham and the coach is a neighbor of my parents who is kind of an a$$. I also think the whole fencing/St. Albans connection makes me happy that DD chose GDS over NCS for high school.

What a charming self-portrait you paint!

GDS has its own special pipeline to Harvard.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard fencing coach's house sells for almost twice its assessed value. Town assessor notes: "makes no sense." It was bought by a wealthy Maryland businessman whose kid was subsequently accepted to Harvard and joined the fencing team.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/04/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard/EIWVMIxUFQ1XweY1xfB1GK/story.html

I love so much about this story. The house is in my home town of Needham and the coach is a neighbor of my parents who is kind of an a$$. I also think the whole fencing/St. Albans connection makes me happy that DD chose GDS over NCS for high school.

You seem especially dim.

[Anonymous]

Sounds more like laundry money.

[Anonymous]

Fallout from the Boston Globe report on a Maryland businessman who appears to be part of a college admission scandal: Zhao was also on an advisory board to Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, and he has resigned.

[Anonymous]

Whatever GDS trades on debate and liberal warrior...the issue is not GDS or the cathedral school...purchasing a coaches house for an above market value could be done by any parent. The family also gave a large donation to a not for profit that then donated to a program the coach run when the older child applied. Both boys, however, had top grades and scores and most likely would have been admitted anyway.

[Anonymous]

But Harvard hates asians

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fallout from the Boston Globe report on a Maryland businessman who appears to be part of a college admission scandal: Zhao was also on an advisory board to Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, and he has resigned.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard fencing coach's house sells for almost twice its assessed value. Town assessor notes: "makes no sense." It was bought by a wealthy Maryland businessman whose kid was subsequently accepted to Harvard and joined the fencing team.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/04/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard/EIWVMIxUFQ1XweY1xfB1GK/story.html

I love so much about this story. The house is in my home town of Needham and the coach is a neighbor of my parents who is kind of an a$$. I also think the whole fencing/St. Albans connection makes me happy that DD chose GDS over NCS for high school.

That’s not a very nice thing to say about your parents.

Why are her parents slighted bc a person in her neighborhood is an a$$.

I get what she is saying 100%. My sisters kids attend a lacrosse powerhouse in PA. The school acts like every lacrosse player is this perfect kid when they get admitted to harvard but have never taken an honors class. So the top players on the team all punch above their weight in admissions almost to the point where the rest of the students feel like what am I doing here?

Take that environment to NCS where a student who is not a fencer thinks why go to NCS where they admissions ppl will push the school's good (but not great) student fencers to harvard but they do f*$k-all for your non fencing kid.

Based on her sentence construction, she called her parents an a$$. Based on her post, it kind of made sense because the apple didn’t seem to fall too far from the tree.

You realize that neither NCS nor STA has a fencing program don’t you? Neither school does f*$k-all for athletes who don’t participate in a school sport. You obviously don’t have any idea what you’re talking about.

The sentence construction was "a neighbor [singular] of my parents [plural] who is kind of an a$$" The use of "is" as a verb meant that the neighbor (singular) was the a$$ not the parents.

I admit I dont know much about NCS or STA. My comment was about a different school which I do know about. The point is if the private trades on their sports to the point where non-students question what they are doing its a bad balance.

Thank you for taking the time to write this up. The PP's comment was very puzzling and made me think we need (or at least the PP needs) some remedial instruction on sentence diagramming.

[Anonymous]

Last three paragraphs are incredible!

A couple that looked at the house when it was for sale a few years ago looked up the previous buyer and seller and said to themselves “I bet this was a Harvard admissions scheme.”

Fast forward to 2019 and the FBI breaks huge scandal. They recall that thought from a few years ago and tip the address to the Boston Globe. So good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whatever GDS trades on debate and liberal warrior...the issue is not GDS or the cathedral school...purchasing a coaches house for an above market value could be done by any parent. The family also gave a large donation to a not for profit that then donated to a program the coach run when the older child applied. Both boys, however, had top grades and scores and most likely would have been admitted anyway.

But lots of people with top grades and scores get rejected, too. It smells like an insurance policy. Probably not an explicit deal, but the dad must have been thinking that it would be helpful to his family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last three paragraphs are incredible!

A couple that looked at the house when it was for sale a few years ago looked up the previous buyer and seller and said to themselves “I bet this was a Harvard admissions scheme.”

Fast forward to 2019 and the FBI breaks huge scandal. They recall that thought from a few years ago and tip the address to the Boston Globe. So good.

I literally just finished reading it and thought the same thing. Wow.

[Anonymous]

The dad was bragging about his kids’ “perfect SAT scores” yet neither boy was a PSAT national merit semi- nor finalist? Interesting...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But Harvard hates asians

Harvard is for sale. Plenty of communists who’ve looted their countrymen and want their kids to masquerade as American elites buy their way in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is no different than Jared Kushner buying his way into Harvard

He was bribed into NYU Law School as well.