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Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin & Bill McGlashan Hit With $500B Suit Over Bribery Scheme (tr)
Deadline ^ | March 14, 2019 | Dominic Patten

Posted on 03/15/2019 6:24:10 PM PDT by EdnaMode

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To: Grampa Dave
It's deliberate destruction of the white middle class. College is so expensive that most students, unless they're very wealthy, are stuck with a lifetime of debt. Guidance Counselors are complicit in this by not finding equal programs where the student can get an education debt free.

Would these elite grabbers sue if they were the ones being disadvantaged? One can't help but suspect they would.

21 posted on 03/16/2019 3:13:33 AM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: grania
Degrees from these prestigious universities mean little when evidenced with the likes of Clinton and Obama.

Furthermore, I've always believed that sports should NOT be part of the higher education experience.

Although we enjoy our sports...it is corrupt to the core in regards to university admissions/higher education. Many exceptions to be sure.

Have you ever listened to interviews at the end of football/basketball game? Some of these guys sound like hood rats despite a four year college education.

22 posted on 03/16/2019 3:32:47 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: ronnie raygun

“Would have liked to see cher, rosy O’Donnell, joy bazar whoopee Goldberg, Alyssa Milano in that situation”

I’d add Alec Baldwin to that list, abd am surprised he’s not on it. It’s something he would do. Of course, his kids could be smart enough to achieve without cheating. I don’t think he cares a whit about his kids, but does care about status for himself.


23 posted on 03/16/2019 4:19:05 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed thee ... I knew thee.")
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To: servantboy777
There is no system for favoring any group, regardless how worthy the cause might seem, that won't lead to resentment and abuse. A far better sports system would be for it to be separate from the colleges. Students involved in those sports could go to school full or part time, but only if they're eligible.

About 20 years ago, one of the students I tutored (to improve his fundamentals for a higher SAT Math score) was an incredible LH pitcher. He chose the college rout. But he could've gone another way. One team offered him a Minor League opportunity with coordination with a local university so he could be a part-time student in a program that would lead to a degree. He went the other way, and wrecked his arm at a prestigious school.

I wouldn't mind the sports programs or even Affirmative Action if the students had to be EQUAL to others before being chosen. The way it is now, in many cases athletes and minorities never meet their full potential because they are faced with lower expectations.

Another can of worms is the number of seats that go to foreigners. As an MA resident, it frosted me that Harvard and MIT (and all colleges) got so many tax breaks. Yet MA students were held to a higher standard for admissions than foreign students are!

The system is out of control. Has been for decades. I'm not sure if it's a symptom or a cause for the downward slide the US is in.

24 posted on 03/16/2019 5:00:45 AM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: EdnaMode

Yea...not a good week for these beautiful people.


25 posted on 03/16/2019 5:09:44 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: EdnaMode

and meanwhile, just like hillary clintoon, so called “affirmative action” walks free.


26 posted on 03/16/2019 6:45:32 AM PDT by utax
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To: morphing libertarian
...were the college also sued and the coaches?

Coaches are the tip of the iceberg... How many 'professors' are turning a blind eye to athletes and bribers who don't turn in assignments and fail every test?

There's not enough room in grievance studies to graduate all these idiots.

27 posted on 03/16/2019 7:10:13 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats are attacking Ivanka & Jared ostensibly on security clearances - reality is antisemitism)
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To: grania
It's deliberate destruction of the white middle class. College is so expensive that most students, unless they're very wealthy, are stuck with a lifetime of debt.

A son, who is in his early 50's with a double engineering degree and the equivalent of a MBA coined the phrase: Instant Unemployment Degrees shortly after he was graduated from college.

Instant Unemployment Degrees are years of worthless bs studies which saddle the grads and dropouts with tons of student loans. That not only impacts the kids, it is causing defaults in home loans of their parents.

His kids have gone to excellent private high schools due to sacrifices of their parents and sharing of expenses by older relatives.

Supposedly these private schools would open the doors to the colleges the kids wanted to go to. Even with outstanding SAT's and good grades, the games played by California colleges excluded these kids. A son graduating this year with great Stem grades and SAT scores got 9 offers to go to good universities out of state and one good engineering school here in in California. His older sibling with even better grades and higher SATs was basically ignored by every California college. She was accepted at an out of state school with a $100,000 scholarship for a 4 year program. She is wrapping up her second year/STEM 2nd semester with all A's and 2 B's.

28 posted on 03/16/2019 8:59:32 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (After JussieÂ’s fake hate crime, hate crime fakers arenÂ’t taken seriously for even 1 minute now!)
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To: EdnaMode

Lol.

Yeah, this is classic grandstanding and attention whoring on the part of these lawyers.


29 posted on 03/16/2019 9:02:36 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: DAC21

“but Asians are the majority or very close to it at UCLA.”

Thanks for this data.

A good question would be how many of the Asians are American Asian or out of country Asian.


30 posted on 03/16/2019 9:03:03 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (After JussieÂ’s fake hate crime, hate crime fakers arenÂ’t taken seriously for even 1 minute now!)
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To: SunkenCiv
"It's so unfair that Donald Trump still gets to be President, when an actress I love loses her job on a show I enjoy, and may have to do prison time over something that isn't as bad as any of the imaginary crimes of Donald Trump." You know that'll be the next meme. Thanks EdnaMode.

LOL

31 posted on 03/16/2019 9:03:03 AM PDT by GOPJ (More than 49 people murdered by illegals in the US where's the press outrage?)
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To: Go Gordon

“Help me. Am I to understand that even though the fix was in, the kid(s) didn’t score high enough to get in?”

Apparently, in some if not many situations, someone else took the SAT tests for these elitist dummies.


32 posted on 03/16/2019 9:05:38 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (After JussieÂ’s fake hate crime, hate crime fakers arenÂ’t taken seriously for even 1 minute now!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Lifetime should change their scheduling for a week long series of episodes in which the accused have starred, intermingled with an OJ-fest of movies, and every 15 minutes a followup report on their criminal behavior.


33 posted on 03/16/2019 9:06:26 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Go Gordon; billorites

“Help me. Am I to understand that even though the fix was in, the kid(s) didn’t score high enough to get in?”

Key Ingredient in College-Admissions Scheme: A Harvard-Graduate Test Whiz

Wall Street Journal ^ | March 15, 2019 | Jennifer Levitz and Brian Costa

Posted on 3/15/2019, 10:12:49 AM by billorites

BOSTON—He was a test-taking whiz who could get any score on demand, federal prosecutors say, and the secret weapon in the college-admissions cheating scandal.

Mark Riddell, a 36-year-old Harvard University graduate, used his uncanny ability to boost scores fraudulently on college-entrance exams for teens of wealthy families participating in the scheme, according to federal filings.

“He did not have inside information about the correct answers,” the U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, Andrew Lelling, said after announcing Tuesday’s federal charges. “He was just smart enough to get a near-perfect score.”

Prosecutors say Mr. Riddell, who lives outside Tampa, Fla., was central to the cheating scheme. He has agreed to plead guilty to mail fraud and a money-laundering-related charge, according to court documents, and is scheduled to appear in court in Boston in April.

After the charges, Mr. Riddell issued a statement apologizing for the damage and grief he caused. “I understand how my actions contributed to a loss of trust in the college admissions process,” he said.

Prosecutors said William Rick Singer’s testing scheme took place at least 30 times back as far as 2011. Of the 33 parents who were charged Tuesday, at least 16 are linked in court documents to Mr. Riddell, who was referred to as “Cooperating Witness 2.”

He has been helping with the investigation since February in hopes of leniency, federal filings say.

In one case, a test had to be scheduled at a later date because Mr. Riddell had a baby, according to the filings.

Another time, Mr. Riddell used false identification to pose as a student. After a Los Angeles teen had tonsillitis and couldn’t meet Mr. Riddell at the Houston test site—where the plan was for Mr. Riddell to fix the teen’s test answers afterward.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3734905/posts


34 posted on 03/16/2019 9:13:57 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (After JussieÂ’s fake hate crime, hate crime fakers arenÂ’t taken seriously for even 1 minute now!)
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To: EdnaMode

I’m wondering why the kids have not been expelled if they got into the schools by bribery?


35 posted on 03/19/2019 10:09:03 AM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: EdnaMode

What they did was wrong, but this of way over the top. When they go after the crooked politicians and their ill-gotten-gains with this much force, then I’ll be impressed.


36 posted on 03/20/2019 7:58:07 AM PDT by Library Lady
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