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[quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]That's not elitist, just a fact. USC, Georgetown, UCLA, NYU are fine selective schools, but they don't pop off the page.[/b] 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]

Well of course they don't pop off the page, but these kids probably wouldn't have been able to get into pop off the page schools even with fake SAT scores or as athletic recruits.  And yes USC and Georgetown are much higher regarded than Pepperdine, Tulane, and SMU. [/quote]

[b]I doubt USC is much higher regarded than SMU or Tulane, especially outside Southern California.[/b] IT was not that long ago when 1050 SAT score and the ability to pay full tuition practically guaranteed you admissions.

The real story, however, is that it was totally irrelevant to these rich kids and their parents whether little darling went to USC or Pepperdine or some hick college. Their outcome in life would be exactly the same. They don't need the hypothetical (and greatly overstated) hooks and connections that comes with a more prestigious school. Those kids were set for life. Guaranteed a lifetime of multi-million dollar mansions and flying only first class and parties and fancy clothes and idleness. GUARANTEED. So.... why did these idiotic parents risk prison over faking SAT scores? That is the intriguing part of it all.

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+2...look at the Buckingham kid. His parents are Marcus and Jane Buckingham, both massively connected in the business world with Fortune 500 clients for their businesses. He would have gotten the same good job no matter what.
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