Posted on 03/14/2019 2:29:18 PM PDT by outpostinmass2
The slew of criminal charges in the sweeping college cheating scam originated from an unrelated federal case in the Boston area — and a financial executive desperate for mercy, according to a new report. The feds were tipped off to what would be the biggest college admissions scheme ever prosecuted thanks to the businessman, who was under investigation in a securities fraud case, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. In a bid for leniency, he told investigators that Rudolph “Rudy” Meredith, the head women’s soccer coach at Yale, solicited bribes from him in exchange for recommending his daughter for admission as an athletic recruit, a source told the Journal. The probe turned to Meredith — then widened to nearly 50 others as the feds learned the scam involved wealthy parents, other college athletic coaches, and crooked SAT and ACT test proctors. At the heart of the scheme was William “Rick” Singer, a college prep expert whose business in California was aimed at getting kids into some of the nation’s top schools. On Tuesday, Singer pleaded guilty to charges that he accepted more than $25 million in bribes to help students cheat on their college entrance exams or gain acceptance to schools as athletes — even when they didn’t play sports. Thirty-three parents are among those charged, including TV actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman.
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Title nine requires that a university offer the same number of sports for men and women, but they don’t have to be the same type.....
there are very few private schools that don’t use govt resources for something.....
Fair enough, I accept your correction as I am no expert. I still think the point is valid. If a big university has a track & field program, they are going to have it for men and women. Same with crew.
And I think my other point is valid too. A top 10 woman pole vaulter is going to have no problem getting into the university of her choice - most likely one that has a great track and field training program to cultivate her skills and potentially help her win an Olympic medal. They will actively recruit her. But a school that is not very competitive in women’s track and field however, isn’t going to attract a top 10 or top 20 pole vaulter no matter what they do. Now maybe they don’t have to field a women’s vaulting team... Or maybe for a fee paid in a paper bag to the coach they will say that they do, or should, or need to...
When SMU did this kind of recruiting violation chicanery in their athletic departments, their programs got the death penalty.
Will these corrupt programs get snuffed?
Apples & oranges. None of these kids were actually going into the sports program. It was a three card monte to get them into the school.
I’d like to get excited about this like everyone else but I can’t as long as ‘RAT politicians are using taxpayer dollars to send illegal aliens to “college” and by doing so, are stealing slots away from American kids.
They cracked it because they needed something to take Lisa Pages transcripts of her testimony off the news.
Yes. I told my teen that I could pay for 4 years of in-state public school, or he could attend an out-of-state public or a private college and take out loans for the difference in tuition. He chose in-state public school.
Think of how all the more (academically) qualified middle-class kids (and parents) feel about losing slots to spoiled brats who cheated their way in because their parents had the $$ to grease the skids for them.
Not to mention all those who got into decent colleges honestly and are deep in debt (student loans) while others cheated and cruised their way through on daddy's money. Has to be infuriating.
I think this is going to snowball in the days and weeks ahead.
I guess I’m just having trouble getting why everyone is so outraged over this when there are just as many other scummy schemes to get into college going on. Why is this so bad but it’s OK that the Kennedys buy some buildings at Harvard so they all get automatic admissions? Why is it OK to admit an under qualified applicant because of their skin color but this is an outrage? Why do we have special admissions standards for illiterate football players?
There are dozens of ways that wealthy or “special” people get their children into elite universities but this is the one that causes outrage? It seems that the parents were guilty of being rich but not rich enough to get the extra special treatment. If they’d been rich enough to buy USC a building their kids would have gotten in no problem, and they’d have been given a parade.
You never know what they’re going to unearth now....that guy who blew u Norways politicians building and killed all those kids on that island..(2 deaths and 250 injured.....”funded” his mission by selling fake college graduation certificates throughout the world......think about that.
You never know what they’re going to unearth now....that guy who blew u Norways politicians building and killed all those kids on that island..(2 deaths and 250 injured.....”funded” his mission by selling fake college graduation certificates throughout the world......think about that.
” He chose in-state public school.”
Smart kid!:-)
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I think it’s this: we all realize there are buckets set aside for colleges for certain groups: AA, legacy candidates, athletes, true scholars, etc.
These buckets are more or less accepted, but in none of this is cheating supposed to be happening. If someone gets a spot on a track team who wasn’t even an athlete in HS, that means someone else for that bucket was not offered that spot.
One of my kids runs distance track for the NCAA right now, Division 1. He loves his school and he’s in the right place, but what if Stanford may have offered him a running spot, but didn’t because a rich parent cheated and superimposed their kid’s head on an athlete’s body and sent in fake running times?
Who this scam screwed is not the average high schooler, but actual athletes set aside for the bucket of athletes. The fact that that bucket exists at all is another question. It might not be fair that it exists (my son would not have made it to that college via his grades/SAT alone), but at least the athletes had to actually be star athletes in HS to get recruited. That’s a lot of work, even if not academic work.
College coaches aren’t paid that much so perhaps they are easy to bribe unfortunately.
then why didn’t the parents donate to build a building, a wing so that all students could enjoy it?
Instead they chose to enrich one person.
Why are these two women made public? were they the biggest bribers? Why aren’t all the others exposed?
I tthink there were over 70 killed in Norway.
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So we’ve accepted that it’s not based upon merit but rather bribery. The problem is that they chose to bribe a coach instead of the university itself.
They just didn’t pay off the right people.
Actually 92...79 were the kids at the island. 250 injured....there were 500 kids on that island.
Is suspect because they ‘needed’ a fast tract.
so it’s two white women and two black men in the news now.
Interesting.
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