Rich White people are obsessed with prestige.
Look how far they go.

Anonymous wrote:New LA Times report. If the USC applicants had just gone to the school and not the middle man, their kids would have gotten in and it would have been legal

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-10-22/usc-donor-kids-walk-on-athlete-admission-fundraising-scandal

There's a new Malcolm Gladwell "Revisionist History" podcast about this. Profiling the case of one father who didn't take a plea, went to court, showed that Georgetown recruited tennis players based on their $$$ not their performance and the daughter's ultimately not playing on the tennis team was for unrelated personal reasons, not that she didn't intend to at the time admitted. Their error was just paying the money to the coach instead of going through the Development office, which would still have gotten the kid a spot. Won the case.

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/the-tipping-point-revisited-georgetown-massacre-part-1

New LA Times report. If the USC applicants had just gone to the school and not the middle man, their kids would have gotten in and it would have been legal

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-10-22/usc-donor-kids-walk-on-athlete-admission-fundraising-scandal

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely a bad taste for stanford since it looked like the corruption went higher than an individual coach.

+1

Hint: Stanford is not the only ivy prone to "pay to play".

Um. Stanford is not an Ivy.

I went to an actual Ivy. We knew who the kids were that bought their way in, and we knew the others. It’s pretty obvious.

Lol it's literally more prestigious that all the Ivies save Harvard.

But guess what, it's still not an Ivy....and your statement is easily debatable. STANFORD is NOT an IVY. A comparable West Coast alternative, still NOT an IVY.

LOL - there's a reason why folks use the HYPSM short hand now. PP, you can think whatever you want, but folks hiring are not putting S and M apps into a non-Ivy pile.

Sincerely,
former recruiter

The PP above you is funny. Columbia and Cornell booster wishcasting.

Anonymous[b wrote:]The rich always win in the end….gotta love they got off on technicalities

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/11/us/college-admissions-scam-conviction-overturn/index.html

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No, on appeal and even the article you cite says legal technicalities. What is so difficult about that to understand?

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone knew wealthy people had huge advantages before this.

This is about exploiting the athletics spots. That's the surprise.

The "elephant in the room" scam is the fact that the ability to throw a pigskin a certain distance or a ball into a hole gets you into an elite institution of higher learning!

Only in America is this a factor at basically every single university. I get D1 sports esp the major sports like Football, basketball, and perhaps baseball that have pro leagues, TV rights....but D3? Good god, how on earth should sports matter as an admission criteria for a D3? Because some old class of 1988 dude wants to give to the fencing program...?

No where else in the world is athletic ability a factor for college admissions.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone knew wealthy people had huge advantages before this.

This is about exploiting the athletics spots. That's the surprise.

The "elephant in the room" scam is the fact that the ability to throw a pigskin a certain distance or a ball into a hole gets you into an elite institution of higher learning!

These people had the $ but didn’t know how to do it the right way

The should’ve donated directly to the colleges v. to individual coaches, and should’ve put their kids in obscure sports (relative to, say, football or basketball) like horseback riding, sailing, squash, croquet, badminton & rowing. They should’ve put their money towards the best training money can buy in those sports

The rich always win in the end….gotta love they got off on technicalities

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/11/us/college-admissions-scam-conviction-overturn/index.html

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Definitely a bad taste for stanford since it looked like the corruption went higher than an individual coach.

+1

Hint: Stanford is not the only ivy prone to "pay to play".

Um. Stanford is not an Ivy.

I went to an actual Ivy. We knew who the kids were that bought their way in, and we knew the others. It’s pretty obvious.

Lol it's literally more prestigious that all the Ivies save Harvard.

But guess what, it's still not an Ivy....and your statement is easily debatable. STANFORD is NOT an IVY. A comparable West Coast alternative, still NOT an IVY.

LOL - there's a reason why folks use the HYPSM short hand now. PP, you can think whatever you want, but folks hiring are not putting S and M apps into a non-Ivy pile.

Sincerely,
former recruiter

More jail time for the losers

Executive, 60, who referred Lori Loughlin to mastermind behind college admissions scandal is sentenced to two months in jail for paying $250,000 for his OWN daughter's ACT exam to be rigged