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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It honestly sounds like the ringleader guy was taking advantage of gullible rich idiots during a time of anxiety. [b]Outside of HYPS, none of these colleges are worth what they were paying, even if you have money to burn. USC? Georgetown? UCLA? NYU? Give me a break.[/quote][/b]

Oh cut it with the elitist snootiness. No these are not the tippy top schools, but they are all well known and very respectable.  The people who paid these bribes were rich parents of ordinary kids who would never have been able to get into schools of this caliber on their own.  These kids would have otherwise attended directional state university or it's private college counterpart. [/quote]

That's not elitist, just a fact. USC, Georgetown, UCLA, NYU are fine selective schools, but they don't pop off the page. I know a lot of verifiable very wealthy and very connected people who have sent their kids to Pepperdine, Hobart and William Smith, Tulane, SMU, Arizona, Alabama, Indiana, and Miami-Ohio.

You really think anyone is more impressed that a bimbo went to USC instead of SMU? Not in the slightest. These parents are idiots.[/quote]

You are the idiot!  And you have not had a college age child. You are also ignorant of job placement and graduate school acceptance or alumni earnings. What popped out the page 30 years ago has changed and honestly you overall facts are wrong. If you talking about movies, Wall Street, law medicine PHDs. When your kid or maybe grand kid ends up at some crappy school you may realize things have changed. [/quote]

I have a pair of children in selective colleges and two more heading soon. USC has over 20,000 undergrads, antithesis of tiny, hyper-exclusive Ivies – it's a massive rich slacker bimbo/douchebag school. They only jumped in rankings because of endowment, they literally bribe thousands of truly smart kids with big scholarships, ala Alabama, and a huge surge in international apps. The obese layabout idiot Rob Kardashian recently graduated from USC's business school! lol

[b]Again, if your daughter is a pretty bimbo, nobody is more impressed she's a USC undergrad instead of SMU.[/b] This entire thing is just batsh*t crazy. Ruined their reputations and jeopardized their freedom so their kids can attend a 20-something US News instead of a 40-something (Pepperdine) or 50-something (SMU) US News?

It's akin to all the obnoxious rich Jersey/Long Island kids at GW (#60), should their parents have bribed them into #30 NYU for more prestige? No, because the prestige difference is totally nominal, to the tiny % who even grasp the difference. Dumb![/quote]

Look, these parents' behavior has nothing to do with how much a degree from a particular college will help a kid do better in life.

It has EVERYTHING to do with feeding the parents' egos. To being able to post on Facebook or drop into conversation at the grocery store

[i]"Oh, that's great your kid is going to Cal State Northridge. DID I TELL YOU, MY LITTLE LARLA IS GOING TO USC."[/i]

In LA at least, USC has much more cachet than SMU. And it's just further evidence of how child's accomplishments have become an extension of the parent's reputation. [/quote]

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