Sidwell Paid a family $50K and agree to change grades??????????

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Anonymous wrote:So going to Penn is ruining a life?

I mean, the fact that her name will show up in this lawsuit is far worse.

+1. Terrible job at parenting. Terrible abuse of the system to try and get some money. Terrible of lawyer to even take this case.

They didn’t find a very good lawyer. There are numerous mistakes and typos in the petition filed with the Supreme Court.

And yet she is $50k richer and at Penn

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They likely paid much of that money to the lawyer.

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Anonymous wrote:I still find it hard to believe she was rejected at every school including the HBCU. Something isn't right. Sounds like Sidwell gave terrible recommendations. Glad she is at UPenn now. Also she was a track star at Sidwell and surprised she did not get in anywhere. The whole thing is so fishy.

I would agree if she hadn't applied to only the very top schools in the country. She admits (through the litigation) that she expected to rely on/benefit from affirmative action. Also, she wasn't rejected everywhere -- The appeals court decision says something about her being rejected or waitlisted or withdrawing applications from all the schools she applied to (but I haven't read the whole thing, so I don't know which schools).

Schools like Sidwell want the students to succeed -- I don't think they want to lie to get kids into schools where they can't succeed. If they gave her "terrible" recommendations, which I doubt, it is entirely plausible that she deserved it.

Do private schools really write terrible recommendations for their own students?

If they do, and before they do, they should have counselled the student out.

Lol....you’re so naive. Do you have the faintest idea about how hard it is to counsel out a student of color?

We are a family of color, not at Sidwell, and we expect our school to remove people who harm the institution and the general learning experience.

It's one of the reasons we are in private.

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Anonymous wrote:Ruining a teenager's life for whatever reason is a deplorable act by any school.

How is her life ruined?

By causing denials from every college she applied to.

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Reading over the brief something sounds hokey. The sister also filed a complaint. Also did two math teachers give her bad scores..

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Anonymous wrote:Ruining a teenager's life for whatever reason is a deplorable act by any school.

How is her life ruined?

Having such parents.

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Anonymous wrote:So going to Penn is ruining a life?

I mean, the fact that her name will show up in this lawsuit is far worse.

+1. Terrible job at parenting. Terrible abuse of the system to try and get some money. Terrible of lawyer to even take this case.

They didn’t find a very good lawyer. There are numerous mistakes and typos in the petition filed with the Supreme Court.

And yet she is $50k richer and at Penn

They had to reimburse Sidwell almost $40,000 in legal fees. I’m pretty sure they came out behind.

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Anonymous wrote:If you read the court document the court agrees that Sidwell discrimated and retaliated against her by purposefully applying different grading standards to her.

What a crappy school!!!!

STFU. The girl applies to 13 top schools (no safeties) and sues when not admitted? Give me an f'ing break. The sense of entitlement and use of race here is disgusting. The only mistake SFS made was admitting this low class family.

This. It’s basically another variant of the “Nigerian prince” scam, this time misusing DC agencies and the courts, and with Sidwell as the target.

She applied to Spelman and UVA, as a competitive athlete and academic she should have been accepted without any issue.

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Anonymous wrote:If you read the court document the court agrees that Sidwell discrimated and retaliated against her by purposefully applying different grading standards to her.

What a crappy school!!!!

STFU. The girl applies to 13 top schools (no safeties) and sues when not admitted? Give me an f'ing break. The sense of entitlement and use of race here is disgusting. The only mistake SFS made was admitting this low class family.

This. It’s basically another variant of the “Nigerian prince” scam, this time misusing DC agencies and the courts, and with Sidwell as the target.

She applied to Spelman and UVA, as a competitive athlete and academic she should have been accepted without any issue.

agreed. If they were smart they would have held her hand through the process.

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Anonymous wrote:Reading over the brief something sounds hokey. The sister also filed a complaint. Also did two math teachers give her bad scores..

Interesting.....

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There has to be a lot more to this story and most schools are not going to want a student from a family that is publicly suing their last school as they will probably do it to the next school too. Did the parents think about the long term impact that it may have on their kids in terms of schools and even future jobs?

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Anonymous wrote:Ruining a teenager's life for whatever reason is a deplorable act by any school.

How is her life ruined?

By causing denials from every college she applied to.

Something tells me she caused them herself. And according to the filing, she is at U-Penn...hardly a slacker school. Seems like other than the lawsuit, things worked out find for her.

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Sidwell parent here - appalled by the school.

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Anonymous wrote:If you read the court document the court agrees that Sidwell discrimated and retaliated against her by purposefully applying different grading standards to her.

What a crappy school!!!!

STFU. The girl applies to 13 top schools (no safeties) and sues when not admitted? Give me an f'ing break. The sense of entitlement and use of race here is disgusting. The only mistake SFS made was admitting this low class family.

This. It’s basically another variant of the “Nigerian prince” scam, this time misusing DC agencies and the courts, and with Sidwell as the target.

She applied to Spelman and UVA, as a competitive athlete and academic she should have been accepted without any issue.

She submitted late to Spelman and then withdrew the app and she was OOS for UVA. We don’t know her grades or test scores.

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UVA is very competitive.