Posted on 03/14/2019 9:30:58 AM PDT by C19fan
The U.S. college admissions scandal that erupted this week has triggered private litigation accusing rich, well-connected parents of buying spots for their children at prestigious schools, and keeping children of less wealthy parents out.
A $500 billion civil lawsuit filed by a parent on Wednesday in San Francisco accused 45 defendants of defrauding and inflicting emotional distress on everyone whose "rights to a fair chance at entrance to college" were stolen through their alleged conspiracy.
In the largest known college admissions scandal in U.S. history, federal prosecutors on Tuesday said a California company made about $25 million by charging parents to secure spots for their children in elite schools, including Georgetown, Stanford and Yale, by cheating the admissions process.
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4.2 grade point average
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And I guess he also read 105% of all his assigned reading material.
Meanwhile affirmative action likely screwed her kid, and she doesn't say anything or do anything about that.
It's amazing what brain washed people do and don't do.
Dershowitz explains how people pass courses and get degrees without studying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auvd9daACGg
Starting at 2:50... we’ve abolished grades and nobody fails anymore.
The parents involved parents took tax deductions on purported "donations" that were actually bribes.
If that is the case, I would expect those who took the tax deductions to be billed for more taxes and not have a big deal made of it like we are experiencing. -Tom
I will be shocked if the case survives a motion to dismiss on the standing issue.
My daughter with a Hispanic last name was a violist getting a Classical/Baroque Music degree about 15 years ago. She had decent grades in her AP classes, several extra curriculars and decent SAT scores.
UofH only offered decent scholarships to foreign exchange students. US/in state students weren’t offered enough to pay for a set of strings.
UTArlington... their offer was laughable. They preferred out of state students.
Rice would overlook lower SATs and ACTs than were accepted for other programs to build a music program.
Sam.... loved her and gave her lots of money. She graduated on the 5 year plan with honors and experience as a conductor.
She was contacted by out of state schools in less diverse areas. That wasn’t on the table.
Her masters and PHD came from UNT. There are few
scholarships for Masters Degrees and absolutely none for PHDs. But if your bf is a staff member and you move up your wedding a few years you can get a 75% discount on tuition.
It’s always been who ya know or who ya are.
Good luck proving standing to be the class representative. The defense may argue effectively that in order to have suffered the requisite personal harm, the plaintiff would have to show they would have gotten into an elite school but for this fraud. Riiiiight.
I assume the federal crimes are wire fraud, mail fraud, and RICO Act (with mail and wire fraud as the predicate acts).
“One doubts seriously that she earned her way into these institutions, and even more so that she earned the degrees conferred upon her.”
I’m sure she got in and received her degrees under the Clinton “or else” plan. I have no doubt.
After the trial lawyers split $499,900,000,000, there will be about $100 million left over for scholarships for socially disadvantaged students who may have gotten aced out of a Harvard admission.
>>What is the Federal crime here?
Not sure either - and as far as I am concerned if a *private* college accepts large donations in exchange for admittance, its probably well within their rights - but one charge that may sting here is if they basically paid to get their kid in, and then wrote off that $500K ‘donation’ as a charitable contribution, that is definitely fraud - you can’t get something of value in exchange fora tax-deductible contribution.
Besides that, haven’t seen which specific laws were broken.
How thoughtful. Since the chances that her family member was not the “first one out”, they should not see any part of a settlement.
It doesn’t matter where you go. Really.
It matters what you do.
You screwed a bunch of kids out of an opportunity for college.
But you can make the check out to me. :)
Advanced Placement courses are maximum 5.0, with others being maximum 4.0.
He's wrong about that. College students still receive "F" grades. Usually, when they know they're going to fail, they'll drop or withdraw from a class. There are still students with an occasional "F" on their transcripts.
Unless he's talking about certain colleges - maybe the Ivies? I don't know. But the other colleges will fail you.
And wire fraud and honest services fraud.
Singer said he did this 800 times!
I think some Freepers who went to college in the 1980s and/or have no teens now may not realize how difficult it’s become to get into some public in-state universities these days.
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, part of California’s “lesser” Cal State system (not UC), turned away over 10,000 CA applicants last year with 4.0 and higher GPAs.
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