Posted on 03/12/2019 7:51:24 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
A large-scale scheme to cheat on college entrance exams has been busted by the FBI and federal prosecutors in Boston, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.
The alleged scheme focused on getting students admitted to elite universities as recruited athletes, regardless of their athletic abilities, and helping potential students cheat on their college exams, according to the indictment.
The plot involved students who attended or were seeking to attend Georgetown University, Stanford University, UCLA, the University of San Diego, USC, University of Texas, Wake Forest, and Yale, according to federal prosecutors. There's no indication that the schools were involved in any of the wrong-doing.
In all, 12 people, some of them college coaches, have been indicted in the scheme.
Yale?!?!?!?!?!
Lol the beginning of the burst of the college bubble.
Hollywood actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are among at least 40 people charged in a large-scale college entrance exam cheating scheme.
That’s a shock (at least as far as Lori Loughlin is concerned)
Why are no SEC schools named? That’s right; they have no academic standards.
Despite the ridiculous politics, and especially crazy costs of American private universities (don’t worry - America’s and the world’s wealthy can afford it), the most obvious entry ticket to America’s government / media / financial elites is still a degree from the top 20 or so top universities.
Gonna be kinda hard for them to cover this one up. But, there is advantage to having the faculty of the most respected School of Law on the case.
Maybe they’ll just file ethics charges against the girls cheer-team leader, hold a hearing and be done with it?
Weak Florist was involved?
No explanation of how the scam really worked or who was seeking to be admitted. I hope more comes out about this.
It's a sham.
Nothing wrong with playing ball, especially if you can do it for a living. So let's cut out the middlemen and just establish semi-pro leagues in which athletes can be groomed for the pros and legitimately get paid for it as well.
Jep. Someone is going to Yale over this. Gonna ruin their yob prospects.
Interdasting
AND...so happy to see that you kept the “source link” on this article to under 250 characters.
Had to be someone in the admissions department of each college connected to some middle-guy. Probably related to some national meeting where they all met up five to ten years ago, and the middle-guy laid out how it’d work. My guess is that you’d have to be talking about $25,000 (just a guess) to be enough for the middle-guy and the admission person to rack and stack these.
The curious thing now, for the universities involved....do you bring in the kid (now maybe two or three years into the episode) and expel them? It’s probably not even their fault, but the parents involved.
I try to care about athletes cheating on tests and getting paid under the table.
Just makes too much sense to cheat the rules. Would be nice if blue chips went directly to a development league instead of college, only way I see to clean it up.
Many of the athletes playing “college ball” have no business being enrolled in a college. They just don’t have the academic chops that should be required. I would venture to say that some of them are even borderline illiterates and so they are basically placed in “basket weaving” courses to justify them playing ball there.
It’s a sham.
Nothing wrong with playing ball, especially if you can do it for a living. So let’s cut out the middlemen and just establish semi-pro leagues in which athletes can be groomed for the pros and legitimately get paid for it as well.
This time it is rich people buying their kids into college. Different game.
The perfect preparation for life in politics.
“The alleged scheme focused on getting students admitted to elite universities as recruited athletes, regardless of their athletic abilities, and helping potential students cheat on their college exams, “
What kind of students? What was the goal here?
Tip of the iceberg!
Did they find obama’s college records?
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