Anonymous
Post 03/12/2019 14:55     Subject: Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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?


Yes, tutors who do the work for them. Graduate students who need the money do this all of the time.

Yeah, and there's this entire business of writing college papers on demand. Mom and Dad would gladly pay for that ,too.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2019 14:54     Subject: Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot
Anonymous wrote:Is jail possible?


Sure -- I think Paul Manafort's looking for a roommate.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2019 14:53     Subject: Re:Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot
Are they going to kick the kids that were illegally admitted out of school now?
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2019 14:52     Subject: Re:Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot
https://www.vulture.com/2019/03/college-cheating-scandal-court-docs-felicity-huffman-lori-loughlin.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=vulture&fbclid=IwAR22miXctdbL9Y13ZjNRvLh-riC8r5eSaLgnlP3EKUMtNfO-fMp65c99-K0&fbclid=IwAR2QgzBm0KYyBwBjV9f1vON-yjzVg07qkUl0qJdNnnDScgvrEfWsci3XsDo
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2019 14:51     Subject: Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Welp!! Lori Loughlin just blocked me on Instagram, can’t tell you how proud I am


Can we just start with the fact that you follow her in IG.


I actually don’t FOLLOW her on IG . Her page was public and I decided to unload , guess I wasn’t the only one .
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2019 14:51     Subject: Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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?


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?


Find the easiest course of study possible and get through it. They weren't going pre-med.

Loughlin's idiot kid was studying communications.

This.
It probably would have been harder at Stanford (even Georgetown), even if studying communications.
I also think that that Chen dude who paid 75K for his kid's SATs was definitely gearing up for HYP.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2019 14:50     Subject: Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot
Anonymous wrote:Statement from Georgetown:

Georgetown University is deeply disappointed to learn that former Tennis Coach Gordon Ernst is alleged to have committed criminal acts against the University that constitute an unprecedented breach of trust. Ernst has not coached our tennis team since December 2017, following an internal investigation that found he had violated University rules concerning admissions. Georgetown cooperated fully with the government’s investigation. We are reviewing the details of the indictment and will take appropriate action.


OH. SHIT.

Georgetown has known about this for at least 15 months!!

Sucks for the families that were blindsided but good on them for firing him.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2019 14:50     Subject: Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot
Anonymous wrote: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?


Yes, tutors who do the work for them. Graduate students who need the money do this all of the time.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2019 14:50     Subject: Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot
Anonymous wrote:Dear DCUM bubble.
This won’t matter to the rest of the country. They’ve always know the system was rigged.


Yeah, take that coastal elites.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2019 14:50     Subject: Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot
Anonymous wrote:Statement from Georgetown:

Georgetown University is deeply disappointed to learn that former Tennis Coach Gordon Ernst is alleged to have committed criminal acts against the University that constitute an unprecedented breach of trust. Ernst has not coached our tennis team since December 2017, following an internal investigation that found he had violated University rules concerning admissions. Georgetown cooperated fully with the government’s investigation. We are reviewing the details of the indictment and will take appropriate action.


So maybe Georgetown dropped the dime?
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2019 14:49     Subject: Re:Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I sure as h$ll hope there is more. How much did the investigation cost to catch ~30 kids from cheating their way into college?

THIRTY kids out of tens of thousands.


Thirty kids being made an example of. And honestly - these headlines are only generated because of 2 families out of the 30. That's the power of fame and it was worth every penny because you can't pay for this type of coverage.

Families will think twice about bribery in an age where everything is traceable and there will be legal precedence for clamping down on rogue admissions officers, athletic staff, and college prep tests.



Exactly. This guy ran this for minimum 6 years. You would think he had at least a hundred clients a year. And he is ONE person of many doing it.

Didn't he himself mention 761? Saw it earlier in the wire transcript. 761 'side' doors.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2019 14:49     Subject: Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot
Statement from Georgetown:

Georgetown University is deeply disappointed to learn that former Tennis Coach Gordon Ernst is alleged to have committed criminal acts against the University that constitute an unprecedented breach of trust. Ernst has not coached our tennis team since December 2017, following an internal investigation that found he had violated University rules concerning admissions. Georgetown cooperated fully with the government’s investigation. We are reviewing the details of the indictment and will take appropriate action.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2019 14:48     Subject: Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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?


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?


Find the easiest course of study possible and get through it. They weren't going pre-med.

Loughlin's idiot kid was studying communications.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2019 14:47     Subject: Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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?


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?


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.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2019 14:47     Subject: Re:Feds uncover large-scale college entrance exam cheating plot
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Maybe this will bring about some change. It’s equally unfair for someone like Jared Kushner to have gotten into Harvard because his parents gave a massive (also tax deductible) donation. In my opinion, schools that receive federal funding should not be allowed to accept bribes to admit kids but it happens all the time.

Are you kidding.. those rich people in power will never let this happen. Trump also got into UPenn with his father's "donation".


And Trump bought Tiffany, Junior and Ivanka’s way into Penn (the latter two were qtransfers from Georgetown). However, he couldn’t buy Eric’s way into Penn—he stayed at Georgetown.


There are a lot of rich, not-smart kids with famous names at Penn, like Lauder and Perlman (Revlon).


Biden...