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[quote=Anonymous]In all these cases, the parents were either trying to falsify SAT/ACT test scores or they were using the "side door" of an athletic walk-on, or both. No one actually tried to go through, or influence, any of the schools admission offices because they knew it wouldn't work. This would seem to indicate that setting up an interview for their under qualified student, and making it known that "I am Lori Loughlins daughter" or "William Macy and Felicity Huffmans daughter" or the child of any of these other very wealthy and connected parents was not enough to ensure their children were admitted to any of these top schools.

Doesn't that indicate that the admission offices of these schools are honestly reviewing applications? Admissions is not going to admit a student who has an SAT/ACT of 1050/22 at Georgetown, Stanford, USC, Yale, etc., unless they are under pressure by athletics for an elite athlete that the coaches make a truly big deal about wanting. All that Stanford nonsense about "we admit the student first" is just not true. Stanford admitted Richard Sherman (top athlete; NFL) who had a verified SAT of about 1000. Then, suddenly, a never verified 1400 SAT was his "score".

I will agree that the super wealthy definitely have an advantage. If you donate five million or more to one of these schools, I am sure that admissions is made aware of that fact. At other schools, including public's, a smaller donation carries more weight. Most of us probably remember UVA's little admissions issue last year when it came out that $500,000 got a deferral/rejection kicked back to the admissions office so they could "take another look". Ironically, in Lori Loghlins case, the $500,000 would have been a perfectly legal way to likely ensure her daughters UVA admittance and she wouldn't have even had to use her "celebrity". Probably also cost that much because I don't see her daughter having the grades, test scores, EC's (can you imagine her daughter doing volunteer work, yeah right), or high school job, etc. Since Huffman paid only for the SAT, her daughter likely had the grades, just not the test score.[/quote]

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