Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, I kind of get it. I would pay 500k to get my kid into a top school, wouldn’t you?

I wouldn’t want to risk getting arrested, however.

Well, and this is your dilemma: 500K is not enough to legitimately get your kid into a top school, since buying a building would set you back at least a couple of mil.
And any other 'solution' does involve a risk of getting arrested.

You should invest into tutors/test prep instead, and if your kid is objectively dumb (no offense) and prepping yields no results, then, well, there more fish in the sea that HYP.

[Anonymous]

This is is the big reveal of others with the mindset of many DCUM posters.

Once, when questioning someone who was trying to use Board connections to facilitate their child's admission, I was chastised: "Come on, we would all use any avenue to increase our child's odds of success."

I did not agree with that poster's values, and am glad that others who share her total lack of a sense of justice are actually now facing justice.

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Anonymous wrote:Welp!! Lori Loughlin just blocked me on Instagram, can’t tell you how proud I am

I think she deleted her Instagram altogether now!

I'm surprised it stayed out in the open as long as it did..

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Anonymous wrote:On a related topic—- how would SAT administrators know if someone else took the test for someone else? How is this regulated? I know the proctors in these cases changed answers/took the test for the accused kids. But in the regular world where proctors don’t know the students, is there some photo I’d check or something?

^^ID

I remember watching a Lifetime movie where a girl from a poor family made money by taking SATs for her wealthy classmates. In that case, the classmates provided her with a fake ID - the test-taker's picture, and the 'customer's name.
Not sure if it is hard to do in real life.. but why not?

Did the movie star Lori Loughlin?

It should have starred her daughter.

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Down falls another pillar of what used to make us better than many foreign lands.

This headline is THE definitive answer to all of those people who whine about affirmative action.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like there's a real viral marketing opportunity for ASU here. Hope they take advantage of it.

Arizona State?

I am not following.

The whole reason Lori Laughlin did this was so her daughter could go somewhere that wasn't ASU.

But was that where she was initially supposed to go, or are you just bashing ASU for no reason? That college does a lot of good for their instate students. President made it bigger and adds online online opportunities to equal over 80K students. little to no-one gets rejected in-state. Smart kids get full rides. He stated he wanted everyone an opportunity to get educated. I rather my kid go to a school like that, than an uptight rich white school these parents bribed for.

Sorry, just not a fan of college bashing

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ASU is a known school for partying and not so serious students. Have you been living under a rock?

I think you have. Maybe in the early 2000's, but that school has undergone a huge transformation. I used to live in Phoenix. ASU is a fantastic growing school. #1 in the country for innovation. #11 for undergrad teaching. #38 for best undergrad engineering. #50 top public school. Not stellar, but not an idiot party school.

Can you post the lists that you found it was a top partying school? I don't see it on any of the current lists or from any the past couple of years. I do see Tulane as the #1 on most of them though. I did find ASU as #56 in Niche, but USC was listed as #18. I also found it as #40 on Stacker (smacked between #41 UMCP and #39 Lehigh) and USC was listed as #33.

Is USC just known as the better school because more elite kids go there? More families that can pay for their kids to get tutors, test prep, etc.... to bump up the average scores of a college. To get kids to graduate on time because they don't have to work part time or skip a semester to work to pay for college or support their parents? To let their kids into fancy programs, internships, etc.. where they haven't truly earned it. Or to bribe or donate to get their kids in the school? Over 40% of the kids at USC have families that make over $120K. ASU only have 15% that do and has 35% of kids whose families make less than $30K.

So basically PP, you are judging the worth of the school by the elite that goes there. USC is ahead of ASU in every partying list. So is ASU just considered the party school in your mind because it doesn't cost a fortune to go there or that the kids aren't rich enough to be handed everything including high GPA's and test scores? Maybe it is because they allow surrounding compact states to come in for in-state tuition even though they know it will never bring up their mean GPA and scores. Disgusting.

You are ignorant and elitist as well.

[Anonymous]

Weeks ago some parents at the Private Schools Forum said they would never tell DC about schools' rejections. "Why I would do that?!"

This is the same kind of parent. Many didn't even tell their kids they were paying for the spots. Those kids have to believe they are brilliant at all costs, even though their parents know they are not very stupid.

I hope others here will learn the lesson!

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Why are they even bothering with college. Seriouly.

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Anonymous wrote:On a related topic—- how would SAT administrators know if someone else took the test for someone else? How is this regulated? I know the proctors in these cases changed answers/took the test for the accused kids. But in the regular world where proctors don’t know the students, is there some photo I’d check or something?

The documents seem to suggest that the kids were getting testing accommodations and the special proctors were bought. They weren't going through the ID hundreds of kids in the room testing most people do.

Don't you love those testing accomodations.

Biggest loophole in "secure" testing environments of SAT/ACT.

Vast majority of those who test with accommodations do it in their schools or with hundreds of others.

Singer, however, somehow set up a small testing center he controlled. Dude seemed to have thought of everything...

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Anonymous wrote:From Full House to the Big House.

$500k? That's Smash Club money right der.

beautiful

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Weeks ago some parents at the Private Schools Forum said they would never tell DC about schools' rejections. "Why I would do that?!"

This is the same kind of parent. Many didn't even tell their kids they were paying for the spots. Those kids have to believe they are brilliant at all costs, even though their parents know they are not very stupid.

I hope others here will learn the lesson!

*they are stupid

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Anonymous wrote:On a related topic—- how would SAT administrators know if someone else took the test for someone else? How is this regulated? I know the proctors in these cases changed answers/took the test for the accused kids. But in the regular world where proctors don’t know the students, is there some photo I’d check or something?

^^ID

I remember watching a Lifetime movie where a girl from a poor family made money by taking SATs for her wealthy classmates. In that case, the classmates provided her with a fake ID - the test-taker's picture, and the 'customer's name.
Not sure if it is hard to do in real life.. but why not?

That is one of the scams used in this indictment. There were several different ways.

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Anonymous wrote:At the end of the day, with reality tv and book deals, the actresses will come out ahead. The apparently dumb kids will still be set. Some producer is sitting there right now thinking, I can work with this, I can make this happen....

Umm, no. Actually Hollywood doesn't really take kindly to scandals. Whether its wife beaters, rapists, or fraud.

Also both Loughlin and Hoffman are seen as 'every woman', even wholesome, network stars. ESPECIALLY Loughlin.

Their career is over.

And neither is the type or the preferred 'model' for reality tv. They don't have the looks and they aren't bimbos.

Like I said - Loughlin was the wholesome, middle America every woman who starred on a Christian show about love.

Hallmark is going to write her out so fast. They don't do bad publicity.

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I bet there are a lot of nervous people around here right now, probably afraid to answer their phones.
If you think this guy was the only one running this scam you are fooling your self.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe this will bring about some change. It’s equally unfair for someone like Jared Kushner to have gotten into Harvard because his parents gave a massive (also tax deductible) donation. In my opinion, schools that receive federal funding should not be allowed to accept bribes to admit kids but it happens all the time.

Are you kidding.. those rich people in power will never let this happen. Trump also got into UPenn with his father's "donation".

And Trump bought Tiffany, Junior and Ivanka’s way into Penn (the latter two were qtransfers from Georgetown). However, he couldn’t buy Eric’s way into Penn—he stayed at Georgetown.

There are a lot of rich, not-smart kids with famous names at Penn, like Lauder and Perlman (Revlon).