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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder what will happen to the daughter of the CT law partner, Gordon Caplan.

She just sat for the fake test 12/18 - thus she is still in high school and probably a junior!  How humiliating for a 16/17 year old who now has to go through the application process under a HUGE microscope.  Thanks Dad!! [/quote]

So she goes to online high school for reasons I don't know, so in that sense at least she didn't have to face her peers this morning. She is in some tennis academy (maybe that's why she does online school so she can practice much of the day? travel to tournaments?) so she will have to eventually face her peers there. And yeah -- IDK how college admissions goes for her now for real. I mean I'm sure UConn or somewhere similarly average could take her based on just her record. I don't think your parents' names go on your college app -- so maybe just keep dad's very common name off of it and hope UConn doesn't put it together that you're THAT Caplan? Or go to an out of state bigger state school that's a degree factory like Rutgers or Penn State.

I know him. I get the instinct -- you have $$$ and want to give your kid an advantage based on that $$$, but honestly the complaint is clear that he KNEW he was doing something illegal just based on how many assurances he was seeking that this was okay. I'm not against giving kids advantages -- that's one of the benefits of having huge $$$ but either spend the $$$ or don't. If you want to give her a true advantage, open up that wallet and pay for a $5mil building on Cornell's campus. Don't go with something that in your gut feels wrong because it's only 75k; if your inclination is to get this done without spending the type of money universities typically require, then don't do anything at all and just live with the fact that your daughter is not going to be a Cornell grad like dad and will instead be like a lot of the partners' daughters with trust funds who fill the campuses of Trinty and Babson.[/quote]

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