Sidwell connection to crooked college fixer Rick Singer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Something stinks here and it doesn't seem like it is the young girl. IMO if she is at Penn now, after a gap year and no substantive changes to her application (like her SAT score didn't increase exponentially), then it certainly seems to me like Sidwell played a negative role in her initial application. More power to her and her family if she pushes forward with her case.

Ha! She probably wrote gap year Penn application on how she had to overcome obstacles of illegal discrimination and harassment. What a crock of B.S.
It’s embarrassing for Sidwell that someone hired this charlatan as an “expert,” but two levels of courts have found that she has no case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Something stinks here and it doesn't seem like it is the young girl. IMO if she is at Penn now, after a gap year and no substantive changes to her application (like her SAT score didn't increase exponentially), then it certainly seems to me like Sidwell played a negative role in her initial application. More power to her and her family if she pushes forward with her case.

Ha! She probably wrote gap year Penn application on how she had to overcome obstacles of illegal discrimination and harassment. What a crock of B.S.
It’s embarrassing for Sidwell that someone hired this charlatan as an “expert,” but two levels of courts have found that she has no case.

It’s possible she got into Penn that year but was asked to take a gap year. The petition states she was the only senior not to get an unconditional acceptance, suggesting that she did get a conditional acceptance. Being asked to take a gap year is consistent with this specific wording. Maybe you should read the petition and everyone should reserve judgment. It seems like she has no legal case but that doesn’t stop a lot of people, Nigerian or white or others, from filing a lawsuit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Something stinks here and it doesn't seem like it is the young girl. IMO if she is at Penn now, after a gap year and no substantive changes to her application (like her SAT score didn't increase exponentially), then it certainly seems to me like Sidwell played a negative role in her initial application. More power to her and her family if she pushes forward with her case.

Ha! She probably wrote gap year Penn application on how she had to overcome obstacles of illegal discrimination and harassment. What a crock of B.S.
It’s embarrassing for Sidwell that someone hired this charlatan as an “expert,” but two levels of courts have found that she has no case.

It’s possible she got into Penn that year but was asked to take a gap year. The petition states she was the only senior not to get an unconditional acceptance, suggesting that she did get a conditional acceptance. Being asked to take a gap year is consistent with this specific wording. Maybe you should read the petition and everyone should reserve judgment. It seems like she has no legal case but that doesn’t stop a lot of people, Nigerian or white or others, from filing a lawsuit.

What’s so terrible about being asked to take a gap year before matriculating at a desirable college? She and her obnoxious parents should be laughed out of court. Better yet, they should be made to pay Sidwell’s Legal costs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[/b]Sidwell is notorious for attempting to limit how many kids apply to each top school. [b]I know several pissed off families who applied places Sidwell assured them were out of reach, whose kids were admitted.

So this girls experience is not unique, and is common enough situation that it is likely not going to win a lawsuit.

This is super jerky and self serving- just to up their yield percentage, I imagine?

I assume it is to reserve spots for their preferred students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell is notorious for attempting to limit how many kids apply to each top school. I know several pissed off families who applied places Sidwell assured them were out of reach, whose kids were admitted.

So this girls experience is not unique, and is common enough situation that it is likely not going to win a lawsuit.

And in each one of those cases, there were recommendations and transcripts sent by the school to those reach colleges, just like with the plaintiff. I know that is what you were trying to say, but it needs to be reiterated.

DP. Recommendations are easily manipulated. It is quite reasonable to think that a school could easily funnel its applicant pool so that only a few make it through. If that is what is happening then that is pretty despicable.

What possible reason would a school have to sandbag a student? They presumably would want to have the highest and best record of college placement possible. Having a student who wants to matriculate in the fall after their senior year not gain admittance anywhere is not in their interest. It doesn't make logical sense, regardless of how "difficult" a student or their family might be.

A school certainly would sandbag a student if it meant that sandbagging allowed a favored student from a favored family to get in. Money talks and especially at some schools. I can easily see this happening at Sidwell. Especially since someone else clarified that her math grade was changed for the better. That doesn't happen unless there was a reason for a change and someone either deliberately or by mistake made an error in her grade. It sounds a lot like this girl was treated unfairly and that her claim has merit. I hope she is successful in her efforts.

[Anonymous]

The Supreme Court brief copiously calls her father “Dr.” This is not some waif from a disadvantaged background.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[/b]Sidwell is notorious for attempting to limit how many kids apply to each top school. [b]I know several pissed off families who applied places Sidwell assured them were out of reach, whose kids were admitted.

So this girls experience is not unique, and is common enough situation that it is likely not going to win a lawsuit.

This is super jerky and self serving- just to up their yield percentage, I imagine?

I assume it is to reserve spots for their preferred students.

Whose preferred students - Sidwell's?

[Anonymous]

It won’t be long now before the family and especially their lawyer will start appearing on cable media. Rick Singer will be their hook to flack their story for air time, in the hope of getting Sidwell to agree to a pricey settlement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Something stinks here and it doesn't seem like it is the young girl. IMO if she is at Penn now, after a gap year and no substantive changes to her application (like her SAT score didn't increase exponentially), then it certainly seems to me like Sidwell played a negative role in her initial application. More power to her and her family if she pushes forward with her case.

Two rounds of courts disagree with you.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone else suspect Singer, at the same time, was placing his fake athletes into these universities?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: It won’t be long now before the family and especially their lawyer will start appearing on cable media. Rick Singer will be their hook to flack their story for air time, in the hope of getting Sidwell to agree to a pricey settlement.

There is nothing for Sidwell to settle. The case law on this is consistent. Unless Kavanaugh and Gorsich, as Prep alums, want to stick it to the Quakers out of some weird high school pettiness, there is no reason for SCOTUS to take this up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: It won’t be long now before the family and especially their lawyer will start appearing on cable media. Rick Singer will be their hook to flack their story for air time, in the hope of getting Sidwell to agree to a pricey settlement.

There is nothing for Sidwell to settle. The case law on this is consistent. Unless Kavanaugh and Gorsich, as Prep alums, want to stick it to the Quakers out of some weird high school pettiness, there is no reason for SCOTUS to take this up.

Sidwell girls tend to have a dim view of Prep guys, and it was probably the same 30 years ago. Kavanagh referred to “payback” in his Senate hearing. Maybe it’s time for a different sort?

[Anonymous]

Dayo had a strong interest in attending an Ivy
League institution, actively applying to thirteen (13)
universities, including: Yale, Harvard, Columbia,
Cornell, Penn, Duke, Johns Hopkins, CalTech, MIT,
UVA, McGill and Princeton University.

In the 10th grade, Dayo was the only Black girl in the School’s
accelerated mathematics course, Math II.

She also applied to Spelman College, a historically
black college in Atlanta, Georgia. Despite the fact
that Sidwell touts a 100% college matriculation rate
for its graduating high school seniors, Dayo did not
receive unconditional acceptance to any of the thirteen
(13) universities to which she applied and desired
admission. In fact, Dayo was the only student in her
graduating class of 126 students who did not receive
unconditional acceptance from any educational institution to which she applied.

What does "unconditional acceptance" mean? It sounds like she was accepted to some colleges, but what were the conditions of her acceptance? That she run for them? That she got no financial aid?

Also, it looks like Spelman was the only safety she applied to? What's up with that?

[Anonymous]

It’s pretty clear that she got special, advantageous treatment from Sidwell. At the time she applied to college, Sidwell limited most students to just nine applications. They have since increased the limit slightly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: It won’t be long now before the family and especially their lawyer will start appearing on cable media. Rick Singer will be their hook to flack their story for air time, in the hope of getting Sidwell to agree to a pricey settlement.

There is nothing for Sidwell to settle. The case law on this is consistent. Unless Kavanaugh and Gorsich, as Prep alums, want to stick it to the Quakers out of some weird high school pettiness, there is no reason for SCOTUS to take this up.

Sidwell girls tend to have a dim view of Prep guys, and it was probably the same 30 years ago. Kavanagh referred to “payback” in his Senate hearing. Maybe it’s time for a different sort?

That sounds goofy. A prep sidwell rivalry? Seriously? There will be no cert grant, and "payback" had nothing to do with sidwell. Goofiness.