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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm with Georgetown here. I also hope Georgetown and other universities find a way to rescind or revoke the diplomas of those who graduated before the scandal broke. It doesn't matter if they successfully completed their classes or not; their admission was still fraudulent. Students are legally responsible for the accuracy of their applications and cannot disclaim knowledge of the fraudulent schemes.[/quote]
I don’t get this logic at all. Isn’t the actual work more important than how one got in? I made up an overseas high school when I never attended high school (grew up in a cult that didn’t believe in education beyond middle school). I graduated with a 3.9 GPA while fully supporting myself. I realize this is different than the privileged circumstances we’re discussing here, but I still think the kids should get credit for their work. I think it’s reasonable for colleges to expel them on a case by case basis but not to strip them of degrees or credits they’ve earned.[/quote]

So what is the point of punishing those who cheated to get in? As long as they get away with it for four years, they're scot-free, but if they get caught before they get their diplomas, then the hammer comes down? That makes no sense either.

These kids could not have gotten in on their own merit, and they took spaces away from other kids. Maybe kids like you were, or like I was, or like a bunch of other kids whose parents did not or do not have the resources to cheat, lie, and steal a place from someone else. Lots of kids who deserve to get in -- and who also could have done the work -- got cheated out of a potential slot by all these students whose rich parents were willing to pay a fortune to guarantee admittance. I think there is a ton wrong with our gameable admissions systems, but I'm absolutely opposed to rewarding cheaters just because their cheats weren't discovered until they'd already gotten the piece of paper.[/quote]

It is sensible that Georgetown asked the boy to leave. [b]But stripping him of his credits, the coursework actually completed on his own merit too?[/b] 3.12 is perfectly decent. That's a B average, isn't it? It seems a bit vindictive to me. Just allow him to transfer his credits to another school so people can get on with life.

It's rather damning on the universities in a way that a low performer in high school can still pass through Georgetown with a respectable GPA.

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I don’t know about Georgetown officials, but I’m not inclined to afford him the presumption that his application was his only fraudulent act, and that everything else about his college years has been completed on his own merit. Obviously daddy didn’t bribe people to make sure the kid got 3.5 or higher, but, at this point, why would anyone assume that all of his coursework was legitimate?[/quote]

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