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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Down falls another pillar of what used to make us better than many foreign lands.

This headline is THE definitive answer to all of those people who whine about affirmative action.[/quote]

Affirmative action is for the poor to counter the bribes?  Huh ?[/quote]

This scandal shows that wealthy people are more than willing to use their privilege to cheat their way into institutions that they couldn't get into otherwise.

Black and Latino kids are usually assumed to have only gotten in because of their race.

But I can promise that no AA candidate's mom paid someone to boost their SAT score from 1020 to 1420 they way Huffman did.[/quote]

Everybody that test preps is paying to boost their kids SAT score. [/quote]

Come on, you can't seriously be comparing test prepping a student with someone fraudulently impersonating a student to take a test for them?[/quote]

A test prepping student still needs to bust his ass! Prepping is hard work! How dare you equate that with cheating![/quote]

But what about the families that can't afford the prep.  I went to one of those free "let me show you how we do this" seminars and it is dirty.  Not illegal like this, but dirty.  Showing kids every shortcut, what to look for, how to decipher and breakdown each question. Which passages to read, which ones to skip.  How many X questions are on each test and how to learn those.  The last 3 years trended this way. blah blah blah.

It is an upper hand to those that go to those prep courses. Not to mention the $100/hr tutors that come to your house to find every angle to get you a better score.  Even families living her making $100K to $250K have no idea what the rest of the country is like.  Maybe you didn't bribe people, but you allowed your child everything they needed. No working during the school year (my kid is "sooooo" busy!)  You made sure they got into top private schools and paid for it.  You went over all the forms 10X over and made sure your kids applied IB and magnet.  You decided where you would live in relation to schools/education.  You pushed until they got into the classes they needed for a inflated GPA.  You paid for educational camps and clubs.  You made their applications "well rounded" with tons of EC's.  You have the money to allow the kids to take it multiple times and get tutors/prep between each one to micromanage it into a better score.

I mean even having the time to read to your kid is more than many poor and lower middle class families have time or event the means to do.  Handing them activities as kids, money each week for doing nothing is entitlement.  [b]I mean how many seniors have never worked a job, but have cars in the school parking lot?  Entitlement.  YOU just don't see it that way because you have surrounded yourself with similar people.[/b]

Many kids can not do EC's because they work 30 hours a week while going to high school full time.  This helps keep food on the table for their family.  Many could never in a million years get test prep or tutors, let alone a book to help them study on their own.  Many go home to no heat or electricity.  Many are fosters or homeless.  Or basically parentless with drugged out families.

College admissions will never be even be close to even unless they took every kid to a boarding school away from their families (for better or worse) and teach them there.  No money given.  They apply on their own to colleges. But that will never happen.

So at the very least, they need to stop inflated grades.  Stop allowing so many retakes of standardized tests.  Stop making EC's such a big deal.  Stop allowing donations and legacy to have any merit on a child's worth into a college.  And for the love of God, get rid of the ED and ED2 that are also for only the rich.  So corrupt.  [/quote]

This is so true, it is SCARY. [/quote]

I am African-American and my parents paid for me to have private test prep. I am from an average family and I even had tutors in high school for math and science. Several, of my peers also had the same thing and are minorities. [/quote]

Average in America is total income of $56,000.  Are you saying your parents made that or less and still paid thousands for test prep and a hundred dollars an hour for tutors?  And why are you mentioning race?  No on here is.  [/quote]

DP: not everyone is as dumb as you are. You can do perfectly fine test prep in much cheaper ways, even for free.[/quote]

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