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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The college admission scandal is basically 9/11 for upper middle class white people. Haven’t seen them so upset by something in years. [/quote]
This has nothing to do with “upper middle class white people,” dummy. It has to do with rich, entitled assholes. [/quote]

No it has to do with UMC white peoples and Asians who have stacked the deck against the poors and are getting a taste of their own medicine.[/quote]

Eh? This is pretty stupid. UMC white people and Asians probably have the most difficult time in college admissions because they are the largest groups applying to college and don't have the special hooks or minority status.

All these people nabbed in the cheating scandal were outright rich. Very rich. You have to be rich to easily write checks for hundreds of thousands of dollars just to cheat on the SAT. You only do that if the money means nothing to you. An UMC family, even with a few million net worth, is not writing 6 figure checks to cheat on the SATs. The law firm boss was pulling in an income of 10 million a year. The Abbotts in New York with their blunt smoking son have their apartment on the market for $20 million. Felicity the actress was arrested at her $35 million dollar LA house. That's the kind of wealth we're talking about. Not upper middle class making a few hundred grand a year.

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Yes, but it's the UMC whites and Asians who have created this problem. With private schools, 10 AP's, segregated schools, test prep, and tutors ... they have created an unhealthy environment for kids to try to compete for college spots.

The poors have been saying it for year... the process is broken and favors the rich. The whole process favors kids in high ranking schools and money to learn outside of school.

You created this mess and now your are crying because richer people were beating you at your own game.

Wahhh! I don't feel sorry for you. The millionaire vs the billionaires.... cry me a river. [/quote]

I’m not sure I follow your reasoning. The hallmark of the UMC is that they follow the rules. They are grinders. That usually is what keeps them UMC instead of rich. The counselors and AP exams and tests and private schools are all a direct reaction to the increasing demand from the top colleges for increasingly perfect students. But this is wildly different from breaking the law, which is what these rich parents did. The rich weren’t beating the UMC at their game. They were playing by a very different set of rules. A different game altogether.

If anything comes out of this scandal it’s the sudden and very open realization that the rich are playing by a very different set of rules. And that these colleges probably knew about it but looked the other way. It made it very clear that meritocracy, which is the moral belief of the upper middle classes who define themselves by their own hard work, is a sham at these colleges. It has definitely weakened the value of the top colleges. This upper middle class person is thoroughly disgusted by it all, [/quote]

Excellent representation of UMC viewpoint, PP.  Also MC viewpoint in this area (public servants/one parent SAHM families).[/quote]

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