The college admissions scandal bell tolls for thee, Harvard

[Anonymous]

Harvard fencing coach's house sells for almost twice its assessed value. Town assessor notes: "makes no sense." It was bought by a wealthy Maryland businessman whose kid was subsequently accepted to Harvard and joined the fencing team.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/04/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard/EIWVMIxUFQ1XweY1xfB1GK/story.html

[Anonymous]

Tax assessed or commercial valuation?

[Anonymous]

Assessed and then the parent sold it at a significant loss a couple years later.

[Anonymous]

lol.. buyer said it was an "investment" but then sold it at a loss of over $300K.

I think this type of thing (side door) has been going on for decades and is a lot bigger than anyone realizes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:lol.. buyer said it was an "investment" but then sold it at a loss of over $300K.

I think this type of thing (side door) has been going on for decades and is a lot bigger than anyone realizes.

Yes, agreed. I think a lot of these degrees are going to start losing their value. It's not really a marker of anything when they can just be bought as commodities.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:lol.. buyer said it was an "investment" but then sold it at a loss of over $300K.

I think this type of thing (side door) has been going on for decades and is a lot bigger than anyone realizes.

Yes, agreed. I think a lot of these degrees are going to start losing their value. It's not really a marker of anything when they can just be bought as commodities.

Wishful thinking of a parent whose kid couldn’t get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard fencing coach's house sells for almost twice its assessed value. Town assessor notes: "makes no sense." It was bought by a wealthy Maryland businessman whose kid was subsequently accepted to Harvard and joined the fencing team.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/04/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard/EIWVMIxUFQ1XweY1xfB1GK/story.html

I love so much about this story. The house is in my home town of Needham and the coach is a neighbor of my parents who is kind of an a$$. I also think the whole fencing/St. Albans connection makes me happy that DD chose GDS over NCS for high school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard fencing coach's house sells for almost twice its assessed value. Town assessor notes: "makes no sense." It was bought by a wealthy Maryland businessman whose kid was subsequently accepted to Harvard and joined the fencing team.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/04/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard/EIWVMIxUFQ1XweY1xfB1GK/story.html

I love so much about this story. The house is in my home town of Needham and the coach is a neighbor of my parents who is kind of an a$$. I also think the whole fencing/St. Albans connection makes me happy that DD chose GDS over NCS for high school.

What a charming self-portrait you paint!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard fencing coach's house sells for almost twice its assessed value. Town assessor notes: "makes no sense." It was bought by a wealthy Maryland businessman whose kid was subsequently accepted to Harvard and joined the fencing team.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/04/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard/EIWVMIxUFQ1XweY1xfB1GK/story.html

I love so much about this story. The house is in my home town of Needham and the coach is a neighbor of my parents who is kind of an a$$. I also think the whole fencing/St. Albans connection makes me happy that DD chose GDS over NCS for high school.

That’s not a very nice thing to say about your parents.

[Anonymous]

It is no different than Jared Kushner buying his way into Harvard

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is no different than Jared Kushner buying his way into Harvard

Actually, it is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard fencing coach's house sells for almost twice its assessed value. Town assessor notes: "makes no sense." It was bought by a wealthy Maryland businessman whose kid was subsequently accepted to Harvard and joined the fencing team.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/04/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard/EIWVMIxUFQ1XweY1xfB1GK/story.html

I love so much about this story. The house is in my home town of Needham and the coach is a neighbor of my parents who is kind of an a$$. I also think the whole fencing/St. Albans connection makes me happy that DD chose GDS over NCS for high school.

That’s not a very nice thing to say about your parents.

Why are her parents slighted bc a person in her neighborhood is an a$$.

I get what she is saying 100%. My sisters kids attend a lacrosse powerhouse in PA. The school acts like every lacrosse player is this perfect kid when they get admitted to harvard but have never taken an honors class. So the top players on the team all punch above their weight in admissions almost to the point where the rest of the students feel like what am I doing here?

Take that environment to NCS where a student who is not a fencer thinks why go to NCS where they admissions ppl will push the school's good (but not great) student fencers to harvard but they do f*$k-all for your non fencing kid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard fencing coach's house sells for almost twice its assessed value. Town assessor notes: "makes no sense." It was bought by a wealthy Maryland businessman whose kid was subsequently accepted to Harvard and joined the fencing team.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/04/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard/EIWVMIxUFQ1XweY1xfB1GK/story.html

I love so much about this story. The house is in my home town of Needham and the coach is a neighbor of my parents who is kind of an a$$. I also think the whole fencing/St. Albans connection makes me happy that DD chose GDS over NCS for high school.

That’s not a very nice thing to say about your parents.

Why are her parents slighted bc a person in her neighborhood is an a$$.

I get what she is saying 100%. My sisters kids attend a lacrosse powerhouse in PA. The school acts like every lacrosse player is this perfect kid when they get admitted to harvard but have never taken an honors class. So the top players on the team all punch above their weight in admissions almost to the point where the rest of the students feel like what am I doing here?

Take that environment to NCS where a student who is not a fencer thinks why go to NCS where they admissions ppl will push the school's good (but not great) student fencers to harvard but they do f*$k-all for your non fencing kid.

Based on her sentence construction, she called her parents an a$$. Based on her post, it kind of made sense because the apple didn’t seem to fall too far from the tree.

You realize that neither NCS nor STA has a fencing program don’t you? Neither school does f*$k-all for athletes who don’t participate in a school sport. You obviously don’t have any idea what you’re talking about.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard fencing coach's house sells for almost twice its assessed value. Town assessor notes: "makes no sense." It was bought by a wealthy Maryland businessman whose kid was subsequently accepted to Harvard and joined the fencing team.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/04/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard/EIWVMIxUFQ1XweY1xfB1GK/story.html

I love so much about this story. The house is in my home town of Needham and the coach is a neighbor of my parents who is kind of an a$$. I also think the whole fencing/St. Albans connection makes me happy that DD chose GDS over NCS for high school.

i know a number of excellent fencers enrolled at GDS. so you lose, there, too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard fencing coach's house sells for almost twice its assessed value. Town assessor notes: "makes no sense." It was bought by a wealthy Maryland businessman whose kid was subsequently accepted to Harvard and joined the fencing team.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/04/04/bought-fencing-coach-house-then-his-son-got-into-harvard/EIWVMIxUFQ1XweY1xfB1GK/story.html

I love so much about this story. The house is in my home town of Needham and the coach is a neighbor of my parents who is kind of an a$$. I also think the whole fencing/St. Albans connection makes me happy that DD chose GDS over NCS for high school.

That’s not a very nice thing to say about your parents.

Why are her parents slighted bc a person in her neighborhood is an a$$.

I get what she is saying 100%. My sisters kids attend a lacrosse powerhouse in PA. The school acts like every lacrosse player is this perfect kid when they get admitted to harvard but have never taken an honors class. So the top players on the team all punch above their weight in admissions almost to the point where the rest of the students feel like what am I doing here?

Take that environment to NCS where a student who is not a fencer thinks why go to NCS where they admissions ppl will push the school's good (but not great) student fencers to harvard but they do f*$k-all for your non fencing kid.

Based on her sentence construction, she called her parents an a$$. Based on her post, it kind of made sense because the apple didn’t seem to fall too far from the tree.

You realize that neither NCS nor STA has a fencing program don’t you? Neither school does f*$k-all for athletes who don’t participate in a school sport. You obviously don’t have any idea what you’re talking about.

The sentence construction was "a neighbor [singular] of my parents [plural] who is kind of an a$$" The use of "is" as a verb meant that the neighbor (singular) was the a$$ not the parents.

I admit I dont know much about NCS or STA. My comment was about a different school which I do know about. The point is if the private trades on their sports to the point where non-students question what they are doing its a bad balance.