Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot

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06/14/2019 15:38

Subject: Re:Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot

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Lori Loughlin Wants to ‘Expose’ USC’s Admission Practices Amid College Scam

And stuff about USC and her and her husband having the same law firm except the article was kinda confusing in the particulars and implications

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/lori-loughlin-wants-to-expose-usc-s-admission-practices-amid-college-scam/ar-AACxteZ?ocid=ientp

I am not a lawyer. As a layman, the way I understand the link, Lori Loughlin has information about a family that made a substantial donation to USC and got their son/daughter offered admission - akin to Harvard's development case (admission offer in exchange for a large sum of donation). If in future USC files a civil suit against Lori Loughlin and her husband for bringing about bad reputation to USC, she plans to conduct extensive discovery process and make public how USC trades admission offers for large donations.

I truly hope USC and Lori Loughlin will fight it out in the civil court so that admission offer for large donations will become tpxic and all universities will abandon such an abhorent practice. I also hope legacy admissions will also be a thing of the past - Harvard already has such a bad reputation through it's own law suit.

Harvard has

[b]Hoping big donors stop donating to colleges[/b]. So that maybe your kid has a tiny slice higher chance to get in, but poor kids have a more difficult time paying. Nice goal.

That is the falsehood being spread and gullible people like you believe. Harvard's endowment fund was $39.2 billions at the end of the fiscal year 2018 (June 30, 2018). Harvard uses part of its earnings from only two of its 13000 different funds (albeit two largest funds) to support faculty and students.

https://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/endowment

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/endowment-18

Do you think the endowment came from the endowment elves?

Or from big donors?

If that is how you justify wealthy people buying Harvard admission, and Harvard selling admission to wealthy people, let me give you some other real-life scenarios and you think about them if you can justify/tolerate:
1. In some countries a wealthy killer can pay money (called blood money) to a victim's family and with the consent of that family avoid conviction from courts.
2. What if a State govt or Federal govt in the US institutes "pay to play" in awarding govt contracts and uses the money given to fund some public works projects.

In short, the end doesn't justify the means.

Utter imbecile.

No, the PP offering scenarios is absolutely correct. The utter imbecile is the PP who just calls names because he can't actually refute the PP offering scenarios.

I guess it must be spelled out after all.

Other than conflating completely different legal areas and sets of laws .... the two scenarios are unrelated in every possible way to a college donor. Making a legal donation to a non-profit educational institution is legal. Heck, paying tuition is also 'buying Harvard admission" and is legal. Harvard, as a private institution, can choose to admit people who can pay tuition plus donate to the endowment; they have every right to do so. There is not law prohibiting it. It's not even unfair because absolutely no one it entitled to or has an absolute right to attend Harvard. No one. Not even the smartest kid in the universe.