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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Congrats for being a scumbag. [/quote]

Thank you!

It paid much better than slinging pizzas or folding clothes in retail.  I have no regrets nor do I feel bad about it.  Those people I pretended to be were set for life because of their family money and family influence.  They just needed the degrees so they could graduate and join their family businesses.    [/quote]

Makes you wonder what could possibly make this dirtball feel bad. Nothing, it would seem. [/quote]

Plenty of things make me feel bad.  But taking money from a rich person to do their course work was not one of them and still would not be one of them.  In my mind, it's the same as me paying a lady to come each week to mop for me.  I hate mopping and I'm terrible at cleaning.  I outsource it because I have the income to do that now.  The guy was terrible at math and rich, so he outsourced it.    [/quote]

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