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Eight elite schools hit with first lawsuit in massive college admissions bribery scam
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Posted on 03/14/2019 7:04:45 AM PDT by outpostinmass2

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To: Liz

Looking forward to hearing who greased the skids for low-SAT (dumb) Hogg at Harvard. Clearly he could never have been accepted on his own merit.


21 posted on 03/14/2019 7:25:37 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: outpostinmass2

BTW, note that much of this money was funneled through Singer’s Tax Exempt foundation. You know, the type of foundation that Lois Lerner was supposed to be keeping her eyes on. That fat ass POS should be in a cell not collecting a six figure government pension.


22 posted on 03/14/2019 7:27:33 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: outpostinmass2
Class action time....destroy the unwarranted entitlements of the elite. This has affected for decades now (at least since the mid-1980s) high-achieving whites. By the time seats are doled out for Affirmative Action, sports, minority quotas, unique accomplishments, and those who get special consideration (with money, cheating or promises of future benefits) there aren't nearly enough seats for the most qualified Caucasian students, the ones who are clearly more qualified than "students" who stole their seats.

What has the result been? An education that isn't better like it pretends to be, because standards have to accommodate academically and intellectually deficient students they accept. Another result: a student body that is the designated future leaders who are too stupid and too self-entitled to think for themselves.

Yeah, I've had contact with situation as an SAT prepper who has worked with students who do things the right way, by working hard to increase their academic potential and scores. And still they lose out to someone who is less qualified.

Perhaps the silver lining will be that truly qualified students will go to a state college or university and get a better education without the debt and intimidation of these Illuminati Paradises.

(don't wind me up <^..^>)

23 posted on 03/14/2019 7:29:42 AM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: susannah59
In these lawsuits, the wronged parties include students who should have received a slot in a school based on their ability......
they were turned away, duped by wealthy conniving parents, who put the fix in so that dummy offspring were admitted sub rosa......
the wealthy bribed their way way into the schools.

Nice comeback.

24 posted on 03/14/2019 7:30:18 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

This raises the question: did he actually take the SAT himself? Did he take it but was coached through it?


25 posted on 03/14/2019 7:30:48 AM PDT by susannah59
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To: COUNTrecount

Candace nails it.

26 posted on 03/14/2019 7:31:39 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: susannah59

“This raises the question: did he actually take the SAT himself? Did he take it but was coached through it?”

From what I gather from the number of rejections he got, there is no possibility that is a legitimate score for him. Sounds like the number given is wrong. He only got into Harvard with a hook or with fraud, simple as that. It was not on merit.


27 posted on 03/14/2019 7:31:39 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: outpostinmass2

I seriously doubt that Barry has been selling letters of recommendation. Obama is a major league con, he’s a Clinton class grifter now, books, Netflix, appearances, etc. This small scale stuff is more in the line of Tony Rodham’s flim flams. Does The Mooch have a brother?


28 posted on 03/14/2019 7:35:20 AM PDT by hardspunned
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The testing companies when it is done without interference are the ones who can even the playing field. Back in the mid-'80s, students not among the most elite began prepping for the tests, and it happened that with the same emphasis on testing as private schools had, public school students stood up just fine. Schools then decided tests weren't all that important, if a student they wanted got bad scores. And what happened when elite jerks were told their children weren't qualified? They found ways to cheat and bribe.

Keep in mind that decades ago IQ tests were abandoned as part of a student's record. It was part of the scheme to create a permanent ruling class that isn't more capable, just more connected.

29 posted on 03/14/2019 7:35:50 AM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: mewzilla

Of the millions of people in the country, what are the odds that their tennis coach is charged? Of course he is involved in guilty, but I don’t know if they want to bring down the magic negro yet.


30 posted on 03/14/2019 7:36:30 AM PDT by MNDude (WWG1WGAalso)
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To: hardspunned

Michelle’s bro was a failed college b’ball coach.
Now he’s in the NY Knicks org as a junior domo.


31 posted on 03/14/2019 7:38:00 AM PDT by nascarnation
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I look at Malia at Harvard. Remember back when she was a ninth grader. Obama commented that she was having trouble with Algebra 1 and he found it difficult to help her. (paraphrasing)

How can anyone who has trouble with 9th grade Algebra 1 be an Ivy League student?

32 posted on 03/14/2019 7:38:33 AM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: susannah59

The schools do need their day in court to defend their scummy admissions practices... which will be difficult.


33 posted on 03/14/2019 7:39:08 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: grania

How can anyone who has trouble with 9th grade Algebra 1 be an Ivy League student?


Aw, you know why. (Coughobamacough)


34 posted on 03/14/2019 7:40:10 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Mouton

Interesting. I hadn’t heard anything about rejections, just the acceptance to Harvard.

His acceptance was likely based on his being “flavor of the day.” That’s my opinion, anyway. You could call it “virtue signaling” on the part of Harvard.


35 posted on 03/14/2019 7:40:17 AM PDT by susannah59
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Didn't Obama get to Princeton with a stint in another less "prestigious" school first? Might've avoided SATs that way, since he was a foreign student from Indonesia when he first went to college.

Sure would be fun to see his HS transcripts and test scores. And also his citizenship at that time.

36 posted on 03/14/2019 7:42:31 AM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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Hate to be the one throwing cold water, but these lawsuits strike me as patently frivolous.

First, I don’t understand how the plaintiffs can hold schools liable for actions the schools apparently didn’t know about, and were taken by individuals acting against the school’s interest, and for their own individual benefit.

Even if one got over that hurdle, you would have to show that the schools would have admitted some other student rather than the student corruptly admitted. That doesn’t strike me as at all obvious.

Then I don’t see how this works as a class action. The only person who was discretely injured would be the one person who might have been admitted in the place of the student corruptly admitted. As I understand how this worked, that would not have been a student from the general population, but the student, for example, who would have actually qualified for admission as the coxswain of the school crew.


37 posted on 03/14/2019 7:43:11 AM PDT by TheConservator (All the blather about TrumpÂ’s violation of the law is simply a projection of their own lawlessness.)
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To: susannah59

this goes on everywhere I was told by a private hitting coach who and how and when and what to say to approach to make a donation to the private all boys catholic athletic dept so my son would make Varsity baseball. 5 figures was a bit steep for me. It equal the tuition


38 posted on 03/14/2019 7:45:13 AM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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To: Liz

Good catch on Hoggbreath!


39 posted on 03/14/2019 7:46:10 AM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: Liz

Wow we sent my daughter to a SAT prep class so she could improve her 1250 score to 1375 and actually have more than good shot at a state unv.


40 posted on 03/14/2019 7:46:51 AM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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