Posted on 03/13/2019 6:17:03 AM PDT by C19fan
Would also explain why so many go into politics..................
Just a question... which criminal codes are being violated? Is there an actual law saying that you cannot cheat on college exams? You cannot buy grades? I understand schools penalizing the behaviors of bad employees and students, but where does the law come into play?
It’s actually pretty commonplace.
And it’s no wonder degrees are not worth much any more.
Don’t forget Mr Fake himself . Barry O . Columbia and Harvard. Of course we don’t know who paid what for him to graduate or his grades or much else as after all those years not many have shared going to class with him which should be acclaim to fame
I’m not seeing it either. But then again it is reported that Tim Kaine is a Harvard graduate. Not really seeing that.
> If a wealthy person offers to fund a program for a year or years, or build a research center, that’s a pretty good trade-off for admitting the child. <
That makes some sense. But what do you say to the hard-working, better-qualified kid who gets bumped off the list to make way for the rich kid?
I guess it wouldn’t be so bad if colleges didn’t have mottoes like “Let there be light” (University of CA). If the motto was more like “Money talks”, then at least the bumped kid would know what the deal was ahead of time.
By the way, the same argument holds when the better-qualified kid gets bumped in favor of a diversity candidate. So maybe all colleges should have a motto like “Life just ain’t fair”.
Middle class whites have less seats at “prestigious” schools already because of sports and other specialty candidates, diversity, affirmative action. We know and kind of accept that alum children get preference, but that there’s some standard they have to meet. And that isn’t enough for elite? The seats their children are stealing are more seats that don’t go to Caucasian middle class students.
I wonder if this money is reported on anyone’s tax returns?
The Feds got Capone, now go after the criminal elite.
She is stirring the pot and putting Witch Nancy into a rage. Where's the downside to supporting her freedom of speech?
Already here. It’s called on line degrees.
No they went to special testing centers across country to take tests. One kids cell phone records show he was not even in the state the 2nd day he was supposed to be taking the test.
Did parents deduct it. They all got letters no goods or services reveived.
Every affirmative action acceptance blocks someone qualified from being accepted. Every acceptance based on bribery blocks someone qualified from being accepted.
If their kid is a dumbazz wouldn't that eventually show itself in the classroom, let alone to future employers, etc.?
Actually no. With rampant grade inflation and many cup cake courses one has to make an effort to flunk out.
> If their kid is a dumbazz wouldn’t that eventually show itself in the classroom <
I think that would depend on the kid’s major. No disrespect meant to the liberal arts, but it’s a lot easier to pass a history class than it is to pass a physics class.
These schools aren't victims here. Their admissions processes are simply being exposed as a farce.
I challenge anyone here on FR to make the claim that a person who is admitted to a university on the basis of fake test scores and phony athletic records is any different than one who is admitted under an affirmative action program.
It unraveled because some of the bribes were paid as contributions to phony charities ... and the Feds got wind of the fact that many of these idiots took tax deductions for their phony contributions to these phony charities.
The student paper in a close by school had an opinion piece that opposed giving any advantages to legacies. I guess the next step will be to stop asking graduates for money?
I think that for many the focus is wrong.
The entrance bribery is not about the kid. The scam is about a mother gloating aloud about her kid’s brilliant acceptance achievement
“Look at me! Look what I spawned?”
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