Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot

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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.

This is WRONG and so unfair to his kids. Three got in on their own. The Yale soccer coach offered to accept a bribe for the fourth. Mr. Tobin exposed it. Mr. Tobin was not charged in the college admissions case because he did not take part in it (although he has other legal issues). Both of my kids know his. They are smart and were accepted on their merits. Of course, now they have to deal with not only the shame of their dad's other actions and his ties (being the tipster) on this case, and people like you questioning their right to be at Yale.

People like us have no rights to question the merits of people like him and his kids? I think we have the right to question everyone at this point. Who can be trusted anymore?

I thought Tobin got out of being charged in Varsity Blues roundup because he tipped off the FBI. Immunity deal. How do you know older girls were not part of it?

Why would the coach approach Tobin unless Tobin has done it before for his other kids? You think the coach would just be so stupid as to randomly approach someone? There has to be past history.

No he's not. He dropped out of Yale.


Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

Exactly. You think someone who never smoked crack could just hand over a crack distribution conspiracy to the FBI? Not a chance.

+1000

Tobin is a Yale alum. His kids had legacy preferences no matter what. So it's not like the playing field was ever equal for them anyway.

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On top of the $2.5m to Harvard, Kushner's dad allegedly gave a $3m gift to NYU, where Jared entered the top law school & MBA program. Jared never took the bar exam -- likely because he is too dumb to pass it and wanted to avoid the public shaming as any attempt is public record.

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Anonymous wrote:No one is talking about this mom, Jane Buckingham, who also paid someone to take the ACT for her son (he got a 35!). She particularly disgusts me. I hope these people go to jail.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/style/jane-buckingham-college-fraud.html

To add details to her situation, her teenage daughter, Lilia, is an aspiring actress, social media star, and best friends with Maddie Ziegler (Dance Moms) and Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things). She’s only 15. I bet her mom was planning on repeating this with her in a couple years.

Thanks for this info and link.

If you open link, there is a photo of this mom with Felicity at her book launch. So ironic that her book was called “The Modern Girls Guide to Sticky Situations.”

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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.

This is WRONG and so unfair to his kids. Three got in on their own. The Yale soccer coach offered to accept a bribe for the fourth. Mr. Tobin exposed it. Mr. Tobin was not charged in the college admissions case because he did not take part in it (although he has other legal issues). Both of my kids know his. They are smart and were accepted on their merits. Of course, now they have to deal with not only the shame of their dad's other actions and his ties (being the tipster) on this case, and people like you questioning their right to be at Yale.

People like us have no rights to question the merits of people like him and his kids? I think we have the right to question everyone at this point. Who can be trusted anymore?

I thought Tobin got out of being charged in Varsity Blues roundup because he tipped off the FBI. Immunity deal. How do you know older girls were not part of it?

Why would the coach approach Tobin unless Tobin has done it before for his other kids? You think the coach would just be so stupid as to randomly approach someone? There has to be past history.

No he's not. He dropped out of Yale.


Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

Exactly. You think someone who never smoked crack could just hand over a crack distribution conspiracy to the FBI? Not a chance.

+1000

Tobin is a Yale alum. His kids had legacy preferences no matter what. So it's not like the playing field was ever equal for them anyway.

No, Tobin is not a Yale alum. He only attended Yale, then transferred to U of Vermont.

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Olivia Jade - days before the story broke - admitted in an interview that her dad "faked his way thru college" and instead took his tuition money to start his fashion line.

https://pagesix.com/2019/03/15/lori-loughlins-daughter-olivia-jade-said-father-faked-his-way-through-college/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On top of the $2.5m to Harvard, Kushner's dad allegedly gave a $3m gift to NYU, where Jared entered the top law school & MBA program. Jared never took the bar exam -- likely because he is too dumb to pass it and wanted to avoid the public shaming as any attempt is public record.

Or it couldn’t be bribed and no matter how long the extended time accommodation, he just couldn’t hack it! Harvard’s finest!

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Anonymous wrote:On top of the $2.5m to Harvard, Kushner's dad allegedly gave a $3m gift to NYU, where Jared entered the top law school & MBA program. Jared never took the bar exam -- likely because he is too dumb to pass it and wanted to avoid the public shaming as any attempt is public record.

Why aren't more people outraged over sh1t like this? Seems like the public squabble over little things while the bigger issues get ignored.

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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.

This is WRONG and so unfair to his kids. Three got in on their own. The Yale soccer coach offered to accept a bribe for the fourth. Mr. Tobin exposed it. Mr. Tobin was not charged in the college admissions case because he did not take part in it (although he has other legal issues). Both of my kids know his. They are smart and were accepted on their merits. Of course, now they have to deal with not only the shame of their dad's other actions and his ties (being the tipster) on this case, and people like you questioning their right to be at Yale.

People like us have no rights to question the merits of people like him and his kids? I think we have the right to question everyone at this point. Who can be trusted anymore?

I thought Tobin got out of being charged in Varsity Blues roundup because he tipped off the FBI. Immunity deal. How do you know older girls were not part of it?

Why would the coach approach Tobin unless Tobin has done it before for his other kids? You think the coach would just be so stupid as to randomly approach someone? There has to be past history.

No he's not. He dropped out of Yale.


Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

Exactly. You think someone who never smoked crack could just hand over a crack distribution conspiracy to the FBI? Not a chance.

+1000

Tobin is a Yale alum. His kids had legacy preferences no matter what. So it's not like the playing field was ever equal for them anyway.

No, Tobin is not a Yale alum. He only attended Yale, then transferred to U of Vermont.

He clearly got booted. My guess is that he was caught cheating.

I know a guy who got caught cheating at Harvard. Instead of getting kicked out, his father (a senior official at Harvard Medical School) managed to get his son placed on a one year withdrawal. So he basically he finished Harvard in 5 years. I think something similar happened to the 100+ kids who were caught cheating at Harvard back in 2010.

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Anonymous wrote:On top of the $2.5m to Harvard, Kushner's dad allegedly gave a $3m gift to NYU, where Jared entered the top law school & MBA program. Jared never took the bar exam -- likely because he is too dumb to pass it and wanted to avoid the public shaming as any attempt is public record.

Why aren't more people outraged over sh1t like this? Seems like the public squabble over little things while the bigger issues get ignored.

Because it's legal and every school gets building, scholarships, etc from rich people in exchange for their kid being a happy low scoring student. When you have a school full of smartiepants and some of the smartiepants have to be at the bottom they develop depression and other ailments. Dumb rich kids are pleased as spiked punch just to be there.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard not immune. That Jane Buckingham, whoever she is - what a cocky little sh&t:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/3/14/admissions-national-investigation/?fbclid=IwAR1eTfvHlilwbB3vTLHktxyA52G8yPg-tz9R-ismAE5PzlmtujHm9HP0O4U

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I mentioned Buckingham on page 92, PP.

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Anonymous wrote:I must be extremely naive but it would never occur to me that people would pay someone to take their SATs or bribe a proctor or bribe coaches. I sort of still cannot believe it.

Naive and apparently not a consumer of the news. There have been loads of such cases over the years.

Ok, I guess I just haven't had the time to read all the news about college admissions scandals over the years. "Loads of cases"? Really? I am just trying to live my life and raise my kids, just a regular person with regular friends and a regular life. Oh well.

Actually you are at worse stupid... and at best uniformed. Just like the pushy parents killing themselves at STEM schools like that is all one has to do. How can you "raise" kids equipped for life if you are completely blind to what is going on.

What now? What’s your problem?
My kid is in a Stem magnet because he loves science. I didn’t push him into it and I don’t see it as a ticket to a top 20 school. What’s more he is not alone. Most of his friends are really into Math/Science/Comp Science. They love what they do. Many are also good at other things. Some are incredible musicians, 1/3 are varsity athletes, some love to write or paint. Most are also highly social and they support each other . Yes they work hard but they are not one dimensional or socially awkward or whatever stereotype you have in your head. Luckily for ds there are plenty of schools in the top 50 that value academic excellence and don’t fill a huge chunk of their incoming class with hooked kids.

You know they have less hooked kids how?

PP is a future angry parent in the making. She will be blaming his poor exmission on now the rich, legacies, the blacks, the athletes, the hispanics, the college counseled. (i know I left some groups out)...but of course not her smug attitude and failure to be aware. Even though she did not say she was a STEM parent it was totally oblivious because she was oblivious to her surroundings like she was somehow above it all.

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Anonymous wrote:No one is talking about this mom, Jane Buckingham, who also paid someone to take the ACT for her son (he got a 35!). She particularly disgusts me. I hope these people go to jail.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/style/jane-buckingham-college-fraud.html

It appears that she went out of her way to fool her son so he wouldn't know. And he has to read the transcripts of what she said about him. I feel sorry for the kids that were not involved.

I do feel sorry for him as well. Way a horrible person Buckingham is to put his future and reputation at risk.

Their dad is Marcus Buckingham, the business guru. Surely they could have had good jobs/careers with the help of his networks no matter where they went to college. He didn't need the 35.

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Anonymous wrote:On top of the $2.5m to Harvard, Kushner's dad allegedly gave a $3m gift to NYU, where Jared entered the top law school & MBA program. Jared never took the bar exam -- likely because he is too dumb to pass it and wanted to avoid the public shaming as any attempt is public record.

Why aren't more people outraged over sh1t like this? Seems like the public squabble over little things while the bigger issues get ignored.

This has been public knowledge for years. But people ignore the realities of the Kushners, while people in "Trump country" identify with billionaire Trump for god knows what reason.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On top of the $2.5m to Harvard, Kushner's dad allegedly gave a $3m gift to NYU, where Jared entered the top law school & MBA program. Jared never took the bar exam -- likely because he is too dumb to pass it and wanted to avoid the public shaming as any attempt is public record.

Why aren't more people outraged over sh1t like this? Seems like the public squabble over little things while the bigger issues get ignored.

Because it's legal and every school gets building, scholarships, etc from rich people in exchange for their kid being a happy low scoring student. When you have a school full of smartiepants and some of the smartiepants have to be at the bottom they develop depression and other ailments. Dumb rich kids are pleased as spiked punch just to be there.

Living the life, joining clubs, graduating and going to high paying jobs. It's a great way of life.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard not immune. That Jane Buckingham, whoever she is - what a cocky little sh&t:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/3/14/admissions-national-investigation/?fbclid=IwAR1eTfvHlilwbB3vTLHktxyA52G8yPg-tz9R-ismAE5PzlmtujHm9HP0O4U

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I mentioned Buckingham on page 92, PP.

Actually one of the co-conspirators (a test taker) was a Harvard grad.

#Truth