Posted on 06/21/2009 3:14:41 PM PDT by STARWISE
Documents show that unqualified student would have been allowed to transfer
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University of Illinois College of Medicine officials acknowledged Friday that an unqualified applicant pushed by Trustee Lawrence Eppley received an unfair advantage.
An initial review of nearly 500 pages of documents released late Friday found no other examples of clout affecting medical school admissions decisions.
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Some of the records, however, were so heavily redacted that it was impossible to interpret them.
But in the 2003 Eppley case, the student seeking to transfer to the Chicago-based medical school had "very poor grades" in the beginning of his college career. The former University of Illinois at Chicago chancellor took the unusual step of agreeing to allow him to join the school if he could achieve, among other things, a better -- but "not a spectacular" -- score on the standardized test for medical school.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
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It’s looking more and more like a cain link fence with guard dogs should be built around all of CHIL.
This is why we need government-run health care. With so many incompetent doctors coming out of the medical schools, who else would give them a job except the federal government?
What a bunch of crap. Unqualified people get by all the time because they are the right color.
Federal Inquiry Into Blagojevich Turns to University Admissions
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By KAREN ANN CULLOTTA
Published: June 18, 2009
CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors are trying to determine if former Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich and his allies used political muscle to influence student admissions at three state universities.
United States Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald issued subpoenas .........
The request was related to Mr. Blagojevich and three of his co-defendants on criminal corruption charges, William Cellini, Christopher Kelly and Alonzo Monk.
The investigation also seeks records related to Antoin Rezko, .......
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investigate accusations that hundreds of students at the University of Illinois had been admitted because of their families’ political connections.
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The Chicago Tribune has reported that as many as 800 applicants to the university had been admitted because of political patronage.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/us/19donors.html?ref=us
Same thing has happened in other professions....Education especially.
You have identified the worst problem America faces--the corruption of education. It's a mess, from primary up to and through the universities.
And since I’ve retired.....It’s getting worse. ;~)
Yes, I am sure you were one of the good teachers. But the nonsense the public schools is teaching these days if troublesome. I have not doubt that is why Indianapolis is represented now in Congress by a Muslim. Ain't multiculturalism wonderful kiddies?
Yes it happens all the time. With the great Kenya as President, Affirmative Action has no standing.
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