Why are there no DC families being called out on this college fraud

[Anonymous]

I was surprised to see no one in the area called out in the fraud scam. Why is this? I have a few theories:

1) Singer hadn't cracked the DC/east coast market yet
2) People in DC are doing this but it's sneakier so it hasn't been found out yet
3) people in DC would not be interested in this fraud, it's too beyond the pail for even us

what do you think?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to see no one in the area called out in the fraud scam. Why is this? I have a few theories:

1) Singer hadn't cracked the DC/east coast market yet
2) People in DC are doing this but it's sneakier so it hasn't been found out yet
3) people in DC would not be interested in this fraud, it's too beyond the pail for even us

what do you think?

Well you can bet it's not #3. I suspect it's mostly #1. Someone else probably has the DC market covered.

[Anonymous]

Singer was based on the left coast, no?

[Anonymous]

We red shirt, pay for private coaches, go to expensive schools, pay for applications to be scrubbed and test prep.

It's the legal but immoral way to beat the poors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was surprised to see no one in the area called out in the fraud scam. Why is this? I have a few theories:

1) Singer hadn't cracked the DC/east coast market yet
2) People in DC are doing this but it's sneakier so it hasn't been found out yet
3) people in DC would not be interested in this fraud, it's too beyond the pail for even us

what do you think?

Well you can bet it's not #3. I suspect it's mostly #1. Someone else probably has the DC market covered.

Yep, I'm sure there are Singer equivalents in DC and NY.

[Anonymous]

You should cross-post in the private school forum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We red shirt, pay for private coaches, go to expensive schools, pay for applications to be scrubbed and test prep.

It's the legal but immoral way to beat the poors.

We do all that in LA too! And when it isn't quite enough...

[Anonymous]

He helped 850 kids get placed over the years. I find it hard to believe not one is from DC. Not sure if we will ever get the whole client list though.

[Anonymous]

Because dahling, we are smarter - we use our private schools counselors to facilitate our donations to the school (and those counselors will call these colleges on our behalf as we just donated $500,000 at private school fundraiser) and our little spawns are athletes (in tennis/squash/volleyball/) taking easy A classes at our $50k privates and our doctors/consultants already arranged for the extra time accommodation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We red shirt, pay for private coaches, go to expensive schools, pay for applications to be scrubbed and test prep.

It's the legal but immoral way to beat the poors.

We do all that in LA too! And when it isn't quite enough...

We also pay for presidents to make our friend Supreme Court Justices... beat that!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because dahling, we are smarter - we use our private schools counselors to facilitate our donations to the school (and those counselors will call these colleges on our behalf as we just donated $500,000 at private school fundraiser) and our little spawns are athletes (in tennis/squash/volleyball/) taking easy A classes at our $50k privates and our doctors/consultants already arranged for the extra time accommodation

yes but this is all legal. I want to know who here is legit paying off rowing coaches.

[Anonymous]

#2 for sure

[Anonymous]

My theory is that in general East Coast families are hyper focused on college from an early age and, what pp said, through red shirting, private schools, tutors etc. are gaming the system that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because dahling, we are smarter - we use our private schools counselors to facilitate our donations to the school (and those counselors will call these colleges on our behalf as we just donated $500,000 at private school fundraiser) and our little spawns are athletes (in tennis/squash/volleyball/) taking easy A classes at our $50k privates and our doctors/consultants already arranged for the extra time accommodation

yes but this is all legal. I want to know who here is legit paying off rowing coaches.

It may be legal but end of day, it is the same thing - how to game the system for your kids advantage in admission to top schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My theory is that in general East Coast families are hyper focused on college from an early age and, what pp said, through red shirting, private schools, tutors etc. are gaming the system that way.

They do all that in LA and SF too.

I think it’s just that Singer was a west coast operation. Becoming a client was probably a word of mouth thing.

I bet there are similar schemes on the east coast.