Massive Cheating Scandal to Get Children Admitted to Elite Colleges

Libs are cheaters wrote:

Still not even a hint of a conservative being involved. You know the media is putting a lot of effort into trying to find connections to Trump or Bush. They won't even let you know when they find Clinton and Obama were involved.

I do not think any president, current or former, would need to bribe any university into accepting their progeny.

The entire admissions process should be illegal as is. Even when it works the way it is supposed to, it is biased, subjective, and unfair.

If we are serious about equity, we will replace the entire system with a lottery. Random assortment isn't perfect, but it is better than a system that actively selects against poor people and minorities.

Libs are cheaters wrote:

Still not even a hint of a conservative being involved.

Somebody already supplied more than a "hint" of this--assuming, of course, that someone who's backed Romney and Rubio is probably not a liberal...

Libs are cheaters wrote:

Still not even a hint of a conservative being involved. You know the media is putting a lot of effort into trying to find connections to Trump or Bush. They won't even let you know when they find Clinton and Obama were involved.

Not even close to true.

Republican donors charged include: Robert Flaxman, Robert Zangrillo, Mossimo Giannulli and Lori Loughlin, Bruce and Davina Isackson, Michelle Janavs, John Wilson.

There were also democratic donors involved and some who donated to both political parties.

This is just not a political scandal. People all along the spectrum are willing to engage in these sorts of actions when it benefits their children.

The Law is Not on Your Side wrote:

"Had she known that the system at Yale University was warped and rigged by fraud, she would not have spent the money to apply to the school. She also did not receive what she paid for—a fair admissions consideration process,” Plaintiff Erica Olsen says in the complaint.

"Her degree is now not worth as much as it was before, because prospective employers may now question whether she was admitted to the university on her own merits, versus having parents who were willing to bribe school officials,” the lawsuit continues.

https://www.courthousenews.com/students-file-class-action-over-college-admissions-bribery-case/

I just came here to post this. Nice money grab by students who presumably got in through legitimate means but clearly would have gamed the system had they had the resources...

keep gaslighting wrote:

Libs are cheaters wrote:

Still not even a hint of a conservative being involved. You know the media is putting a lot of effort into trying to find connections to Trump or Bush. They won't even let you know when they find Clinton and Obama were involved.

Not even close to true.

Republican donors charged include: Robert Flaxman, Robert Zangrillo, Mossimo Giannulli and Lori Loughlin, Bruce and Davina Isackson, Michelle Janavs, John Wilson.

There were also democratic donors involved and some who donated to both political parties.

This is just not a political scandal. People all along the spectrum are willing to engage in these sorts of actions when it benefits their children.

Hey, come on, man--if you're not gonna pigeonhole all of these criminals in one neat group ("liberals" or "conservatives" or "Democrats" or "Republicans"), you're gonna mess up the whole LRC vibe!

Question for you all - "will this mean for the future that all college students will be admitted solely on academic grounds, and irregardless of athletic ability"?

Thoughts???????????

Of the 50 people charged in the college scandal, the Washington Free Beacon found only one gave consistently to Republican RINO candidates. Mossimo G. Giannulli, founder of the clothing company Mossimo, Inc., is married to actress Lori Loughlin. ... He supported Sen. Marco Rubio (RINO., Fla.) in 2016, and Romney (RINO, MA/UT)and John Boehner (RINO) before that. He has also donated to Democrats (D).

Rick Caruso not only gets his daughter and his other kids into USC, but writes letters for all of her friends to get them into USC as well.

Fiction. Don't take somebody else's word for it. Look up the actual donation records for the people I listed.

This type of stuff is nothing new in a way.

https://youtu.be/QPnxOOeY1Kg

messi wrote:

Question for you all - "will this mean for the future that all college students will be admitted solely on academic grounds, and irregardless of athletic ability"?

Thoughts???????????

We can only hope. When these schools have so many special admission categories they set themselves for this kind of abuse.

Libs are cheaters wrote:

Still not even a hint of a conservative being involved. You know the media is putting a lot of effort into trying to find connections to Trump or Bush. They won't even let you know when they find Clinton and Obama were involved.

Aren't guys like you always saying that the FBI, DOJ, and the rest of the "Deep State" give liberals a pass?

If that's true, how can all of the people charged in this sad business be liberals? (Well, we know that factually they *aren't* all libs, but plenty of them do seem to be.) I mean, which is it: Liberals always get a pass, or all the people charged are libs? I don't see how both could be true . . .

messi wrote:

Question for you all - "will this mean for the future that all college students will be admitted solely on academic grounds, and irregardless of athletic ability"?

Thoughts???????????

My thought is that the word you wanted is regardless.

No they don't get a pass from the FBI or DOJ. i have full faith in those agencies. Don't try to broadbrush opinions or values across a group. That is the definition of a racist or classist and I doubt you want to be one of those.

no - all it means is that the schools will do a stricter job vetting the athletic applicants. The schools were simply guilty of thinking that coaches and athletic directors would not present an athlete for admission, who was not in fact a good athlete in their sport. What was missed is that for the right price, a coach would be happy to take 9 real athletes and then slip in one fake for the right bribe.

This just in. The daughters have dropped out of USC. They were just taking up space anyway:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6811135/Loris-Loughlins-daughters-Olivia-Isabella-quit-USC.html