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

[Anonymous]

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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?

LA is a dumb liberal bubble.

DC is a smart liberal bubble.

this was EXACTLY what my husband said last night when we were discussing

Do we know all the parents were liberal, like that big-shot lawyer? No, we don’t.

I thought Loughlin was conservative, always talking family values and acting in Hallmark channel stuff....

[Anonymous]

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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?

LA is a dumb liberal bubble.

DC is a smart liberal bubble.

this was EXACTLY what my husband said last night when we were discussing

Do we know all the parents were liberal, like that big-shot lawyer? No, we don’t.

I thought Loughlin was conservative, always talking family values and acting in Hallmark channel stuff....

And, I'll bet many of the CEOs busted are Republicans.

[Anonymous]

https://www.instagram.com/felicityhuffman/

Scroll thru Huffman's instagram. Extreeemely liberal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you kidding? Why would they need to do that?

There's no such thing as "just not bright enough for a decent college and will end up in trade school" anymore. DMV parents won't accept that. Those kids all get private testing that gives them diagnoses of "ADHD", "low processing speed" (not kidding), "low IQ" (not kidding either), and then they're either put on speed to give them super-human concentration ability and/or get "accommodations" such as not needing to do the entire test, getting extra time, etc. And then they don't graduate from "High School Lite", it's the same transcript as everyone else.

There's no need to pay off anyone - just be forceful enough to get as much testing as you need that says what you want and then be pushy enough to force the accommodations that a kid with those diagnoses is legally entitled to.

Please stop.

My child has a processing speed in the 4th percentile, OCD and severe inattentive ADHD, all of which are making our lives hell right now, despite all the accommodations that his kind school can offer. You are impugning his reputation and that of other children with genuine special needs when you run your mouth idiotically like this.

As a research scientist, I can tell you that psychologists who assess and evaluate such children in the area are professionals with PhDs who have no incentive to jeoardize their careers with such crap. There might be a bad apple, of course. But after a while, it’s hard to hide these things.

Having a child with special needs is worrying enough. We don’t need vile accusations like yours to make our lives even harder!

Shame on you.

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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?

LA is a dumb liberal bubble.

DC is a smart liberal bubble.

this was EXACTLY what my husband said last night when we were discussing

Do we know all the parents were liberal, like that big-shot lawyer? No, we don’t.

I thought Loughlin was conservative, always talking family values and acting in Hallmark channel stuff....

And, I'll bet many of the CEOs busted are Republicans.

Yes, Loughlin (via her husband) donated to the Romney campaign and Marco Rubio. It's a pretty even split along party lines, with some parents contributing to both parties or party candidates.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/political-donors-college-admissions-scandal_n_5c883861e4b0fbd7661ed2fb

[Anonymous]

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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?

LA is a dumb liberal bubble.

DC is a smart liberal bubble.

this was EXACTLY what my husband said last night when we were discussing

Do we know all the parents were liberal, like that big-shot lawyer? No, we don’t.

I thought Loughlin was conservative, always talking family values and acting in Hallmark channel stuff....

And, I'll bet many of the CEOs busted are Republicans.

Here you go:
The contributions included:

At least $135,525 to the Democratic National Committee

At least $131,800 to committees benefiting or controlled by then-presidential candidate and current U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah)

At least $73,600 to the Republican National Committee

At least $30,000 to committees benefiting Gavin Newsom

At least $25,000 to the Kamala Harris Senate Committee and the committee for her California attorney general candidacy

At least $16,900 to committees benefiting or controlled by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.)

$8,350 to the National Republican Campaign Committee

$8,350 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/political-donors-college-admissions-scandal_n_5c883861e4b0fbd7661ed2fb

[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?

Area parents, especially those who are middle class are a lot sneakier and have their own ways of gaming the system.

[Anonymous]

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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.

If anyone in DC tried this, their own friends and social circle would turn them in. Rich & powerful people here keep score and keep track of the relative academic and athletic ranking of the kids at their kids schools, the kids from their Country Club friends and the kids of their coworkers. If anyone gets in a school surprisingly above their expectations, people here would ask questions.

how would they know?

only a dummy would brag to friends about bribing an SAT official.

even Trump isn't that stupid.

If an unexceptional kid got into an elite university, and the other parents knew that neither of the kid's parents is a legacy at the university, they haven't funded a building there, and the kid does not have exceptional athletic or other preferential talents, then the other parents would suspect something shady and would pry, either to bust them or to figure out how to do it for their kids. Also, if a student gets into a college that should be out of reach, the teachers, counselors, and other students at the school would immediately be suspicious and would pry.

Counselors, teachers and other parents can pry all they want. What idiot would answer the questions, though? A simple shrug and “college admissions are a roulette wheel!” are all any reasonably bright parent would offer.

Other parents will just assume Larlo got a great rec from the high school because his parents are rich and donated a lot to the high school. And you have to be rich to play this game anyway, so they probably did donate a lot.

Kids talk. Parents talk to each other, to teachers, and to counselors. If no one has a reasonable explanation for why an unexceptional student got into Yale, while exceptional students did not, they don't need a confession or all the evidence to make a phone call.

People unleash this nastiness already and the kids/families don't know crap about whether a given student is worthy. A senior has transferred out of our public HS this year because her admit led to excessive gossip. I've heard of similar gossip at another HS. There is no way this sort of behavior can be used as a leveling force to ferret out bad actors, don't kid yourself.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Area parents, especially those who are middle class are a lot sneakier and have their own ways of gaming the system.

Beware the ALL POWERFUL MIDDLE CLASS!!

What, pray tell, are these sneaky ways the Middle Class game the system? Last I checked, they were getting screwed for playing by the rules.

[Anonymous]

Hollywood parents are uneducated. East coast parents are Ivy Leaguers. There is a difference in how they manipulate the system.

[Anonymous]

All this makes me feel like a failure in parenting. The length, effort needed to cheat and break the law to put their kids through college. It just would have never occurred to me to bribe someone, cheat, fake sports to get my kids into college of my/ their choice. I feel like a bad parent - like i don’t love my kids enough to go to such lengths.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hollywood parents are uneducated. East coast parents are Ivy Leaguers. There is a difference in how they manipulate the system.

We’ll see!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All this makes me feel like a failure in parenting. The length, effort needed to cheat and break the law to put their kids through college. It just would have never occurred to me to bribe someone, cheat, fake sports to get my kids into college of my/ their choice. I feel like a bad parent - like i don’t love my kids enough to go to such lengths.

They didn't do this because they love their kids. They did this to feed their own massive egos.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All this makes me feel like a failure in parenting. The length, effort needed to cheat and break the law to put their kids through college. It just would have never occurred to me to bribe someone, cheat, fake sports to get my kids into college of my/ their choice. I feel like a bad parent - like i don’t love my kids enough to go to such lengths.

Aside from being unethical, it seems it'd be a disservice to their children if they find that can't handle the work once they get into these schools. That will just require more palms to grease to keep the facade going, and a big blow to the kid's self-esteem in the process (unless they're so entitled that this doesn't affect their self-esteem).

[Anonymous]

Kids get extended time who don't need it. It is pervasive.