Sidwell Paid a family $50K and agree to change grades??????????

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody on DCUM really wants to hear that Sidwell acted fairly or at worst clumsily. Doesn’t everyone hear really always want to think they acted poorly? It’s like sharks circling. Weird vibe in the whole thread.

Agreed. Also a lot of angry Sidwell defended ranging from circle to smug to offensive.@

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t blame them if they are trying to highlight that schools push certain kids to certain colleges. I have not seen this kid’s transcript but the fact this child got into UPenn a year
Later should indicate something went wrong at Sidwell. I am not crazy liberal either. I also think people make an issue with URM because more and more it seems as though Asians or white kids have to score higher than certain URM to get into college. I also think even the most liberal of caucasians are tired of reading things like toxic whiteness. I think this fact hurts URM who are scoring higher because they are rightfully annoyed that the perception they didn’t deserve to get in a school. This is the collateral damage of affirmative action and certain fringe anti white groups. Back to original issue-if a parent wants to advocate with laws as they stand then good for them.

I read it as she got into Penn right out of Sidwell with the condition of a gap year, meaning she got in to Penn.

That is not how it reads in the documents. It appears that she re-applied to Penn after taking a year off and got in. But much of what the family claimed was not substantiated.

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Younger sibling of pain in the ass family. You’d think someone in the placement office would have had sense enough to focus on making things go smoothly.

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Anonymous wrote:So going to Penn is ruining a life?

I mean, the fact that her name will show up in this lawsuit is far worse.

+1. Terrible job at parenting. Terrible abuse of the system to try and get some money. Terrible of lawyer to even take this case.

The family is from Upper Marlboro, which is kind of like the Palermo of scammers and fakers.

Oh please.

The Sicilian Mafia might be offended.

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Anonymous wrote:If you read the court document the court agrees that Sidwell discrimated and retaliated against her by purposefully applying different grading standards to her.

What a crappy school!!!!

STFU. The girl applies to 13 top schools (no safeties) and sues when not admitted? Give me an f'ing break. The sense of entitlement and use of race here is disgusting. The only mistake SFS made was admitting this low class family.

This. It’s basically another variant of the “Nigerian prince” scam, this time misusing DC agencies and the courts, and with Sidwell as the target.

She applied to Spelman and UVA, as a competitive athlete and academic she should have been accepted without any issue.

She wasn't applying as a recruited athlete. For whatever reason, she chose not to go that route. Possibly, the coaches at the schools she was interested in weren't interested in her.

The petition suggests that she was a superior athlete but a closer reading shows that, although she talked with some coaches, no one would bite.

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Anonymous wrote:Younger sibling of pain in the ass family. You’d think someone in the placement office would have had sense enough to focus on making things go smoothly.

Apparently they advised her not to apply to all Ivy League and other very selective, but the family was too arrogant to listen. When she struck out, they sued. What were they thinking?!

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Why were they arrogant? They knew their daughter’s worth and got it a year later. I say good for them!

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Anonymous wrote:Why were they arrogant? They knew their daughter’s worth and got it a year later. I say good for them!

Didn’t Penn defer her for a year? Yet that seems to be an element of her complaint. The petition makes clear that she saw the competitive “worth” of her application as dependent on affirmative action, and she alleged Sidwell’s recommendation somehow undercut her playing that card.

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Anonymous wrote:Younger sibling of pain in the ass family. You’d think someone in the placement office would have had sense enough to focus on making things go smoothly.

Apparently they advised her not to apply to all Ivy League and other very selective, but the family was too arrogant to listen. When she struck out, they sued. What were they thinking?!

They were thinking it would be a winning strategy to ensure that her name is unhirable when potential employers google her name.

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Penn must have given a deferred acceptance because the petition talks about “unconditional acceptance”.

It’s not at all clear that a lawsuit was warranted.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody on DCUM really wants to hear that Sidwell acted fairly or at worst clumsily. Doesn’t everyone hear really always want to think they acted poorly? It’s like sharks circling. Weird vibe in the whole thread.

Agreed. Also a lot of angry Sidwell defended ranging from circle to smug to offensive.@

Work on your English language skills.

Work on your human skills

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There’s no way that the Supreme Court will take the case but there may be some money in the film rights. Working title: “‘Gone, gone, gone!’ Girl”

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Anonymous wrote:I am just glad the conversation is out there. I notice hownif you are an “in” family it is hard to get the best classes and of course college. I expect schools to not push certain kids. If all kids applying to a certain school are great then give them all great rec and let the college decide without interfering.

Agree. The entire recommendation system should be eliminated and let the kids speak for themselves.

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On balance, it is hard to come away from reading the record without a sense that, irrespective of her ultimate complaint, Sidwell's math department was largely incompetent when it came to grades. Can't really fault the plaintiff for the perception of bias, even if it ultimately was without basis. Also interesting that the school backed away from any sense of obligation with respect to placement. Seemed content to say it was not their job.

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Sidwell better work hard to change that perception coz no parent is going to pay $50,000 for a school that does not view college placement as part of its job.