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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone explain this to me:

Once these students were admitted, how were they supposed to keep up with their coursework? Were the parents planning to bribe the professors or administrators? Did Singer continue to facilitate bribes after enrollment? What would the endgame be?[/quote]

This is what I'm wondering. It's one thing to bribe your kid's way in to college, but how did they actually expect them to graduate?[/quote]

It doesn't matter if they graduate, but even attending for a year or so is a decent credential while they try to figure out what to do with their lives.

It's also harder to get into some of these schools than graduate. They can also easily afford a 5-year plan, so there is time to re-take classes etc.[/quote]

I went to Stanford.  Believe me, there were complete idiots who managed to graduate just by picking an easy major.  [/quote]

And by paying people like me to do their work for them.  I attended two whole classes in my time at my university as another student.  They were both from wealthy families and terrible at math.  My university didn't make you show ID for any tests (and still doesn't, from what I hear), you just had to write your student number on your test.  The key was to stick to the larger lecture courses with 100+ students where you could just blend in.  I know someone who pretended to be another student in the lab portion of a biology course with only 35 other students.  Just thinking about doing that would make me anxious.

Trust me, cheating is still rampant in college.   [/quote]

Wow. Thanks for sharing. How did you get this gig?

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It was an off-shoot of doing their homework for them.  I used to make money writing papers for people and doing their homework.  I gave up the paper writing because I was in college around the time the automated plagiarism scanning became popular in use.  It was too risky, but the loss in income was a hard one for someone who didn't have rich parents and was only able to hold a part time minimum wage job while in school.  I just jokingly said "this would be a hell of a lot easier if I just started off pretending to be you at the start!" and it was a light bulb moment.

His major required Statistics to be taken and passed with a B and this Stats class was one of the hardest at our university.  The homework to test average heavily leaned in favor of tests, which could only be taken in the classroom.  The math coursework I was doing for him prior to Stats consisted of me completing his homework and the online quizzes for him while he struggled through the tests and it worked out well to earn him a B.  So Spring semester he signed up for the Stats course when I had a free block open with an instructor I'd never had and I attended as him the whole semester.  A few semesters later he brought his friend to me and I enrolled in an intro to legal studies course as him.        [/quote]

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