THE INDIVIDUAL DEFENDANTS
THE INDIVIDUAL DEFENDANTS
Why not just open the Ayn Rand College of Privilege and Power. You could call it ARCOPP. The school hires all the best faculty in the world and offers a superior educational experience with all students getting intensive personalized instruction. Luxurious dorms. Lots of great activities and trips (this is starting to sound a bit like SMU, but let me finish). Admission for the limited spots is based on an open auction. The highest bidder gets each spot. There is a $1 mil reserve for bidding on a 4 year degree path. That way the uber rich in the world can have their elite college spots for their fail sons.
This is every hard-working poor or middle-class kid's worst nightmare. Seeing how rich people exert influence and bend if not break the law to help keep them down.
Imagine if one of these kids took the admissions spot your kid worked so hard to earn?
I read the affidavit. Many if not most of these kids appear blameless -- one even unwittingly implicated his parents by admitting to not being on the team his parents lied to place him on -- but, man, these parents? Lock them up.
run2it wrote:
ROI seems to be off on this, you pay $1.2 to get your dumb kid into Yale? You are already rich, so it doesn't matter what the kids do in school.
I know an education is important but being rich is more important. Just seems dumb.
It is about the prestige of being able to say "My kid is going to Yale". Not unlike a parent I know who bragged about his kid getting a scholarship in a sport. 1) It was a D2 school 2) it was around 10%. Kudos for the kid, but when most people hear "scholarship" they think "full ride".
Or the kid who goes to a D3 school to play football so he can say he played college football yet it costs a lot more to go to that school than the big state university. (D3 figured out in some areas of the country sports can generate a lot of revenue).
This article highlights how they tried to game the College Board:
Snippet:
[Singer] has advised law enforcement agents that, in such instances—when parents had their children first take the exams by themselves, to see how they scored without cheating—[Singer] would typically direct [his test-taking employee] to ensure that their second score did not increase by more than 30 percent from the first “baseline” score, in order to avoid any suspicion of cheating.
A charity that allegedly laundered bribes in exchange for getting their children into college on paper claimed to be helping the “underprivileged.” The Key Worldwide Foundation claimed to help through a variety of activities. On its tax documents, it claimed to:
Pay the Crips and Bloods to play basketball against each other in Los Angeles.
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Teach homeless people entrepreneurship by hosting a 5K run.
The Key Athletics - Funded 1400 adults and kids from the two largest gangs Crips and Bloods in the 4 worst neighborhoods in LA to play basketball and develop consensus building programs to stop gang violence and create better communication through sports for 40 weeks.
Created a residential summer program for 100 underserved homeless youth living in the 1736 Shelters throughout Southern California to teach entrepreneurship by creating a 5K Run and Concert that launched in April 2013 and 2014.
Key Math Development continued develpment from 2013Ladylike Foundation - This was a donation to a charity that takes underprivileged women and teaches them public and private ettiguette.
https://www.citizenaudit.org/organization/461603030/aoxomoxoa wrote:
Ivies Suck wrote:
Bribes, Cheating, ACT, SAT, Actors, Coaches. Everyone was involved.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fbi-accuses-wealthy-parents-including-celebrities-in-college-entrance-bribery-scheme/ar-BBUGhsh?ocid=ientpThe joke is on Lori for having to pay $50k for her dumb@$$ kid to get into a state school.
USC is private. How smart are you?
Nate Silver is opening up bets on which major media publication will put out a puff piece defending the accused actresses:
Imagine if one of these kids took the admissions spot your kid worked so hard to earn?
Puleeze...The so-called "admissions spots" that are purported to be "taken" by others only exist in some abstract sense, and indeed the whole concept of "earning" smacks of thorough pseudo-meritocracy by now in 2019.
If you don't like the system, don't play it.
Much ado wrote:
Big deal. Slip the maitre’d a couple of Benjamins and you’ll get a prime table without a reservation. Same concept. Is the FBI going to investigate all NYC restaurants now?
Is there a state or federal law that covers it? Because it appears there is in this case.
Avocado's Number wrote:
Short Bus Kid wrote:
Yeah but. That was 30 years ago in 1985.
What was 30 years ago?
Also 30 years ago was not 1985...
Jeez, the Yale soccer coach earned $400,000 from this scam:
Kudos to the track program, apparently the only sport to actually call the Athletic Director's bluff and expect a fake "recruit" to show up for practice
https://twitter.com/JasonRileyWDRB/status/1105513934281416706
RunRaider wrote:
Kudos to the track program, apparently the only sport to actually call the Athletic Director's bluff and expect a fake "recruit" to show up for practice
https://twitter.com/JasonRileyWDRB/status/1105513934281416706
Letsrun needs to add a Like's colum to the posts table and give us an upvote feature. This is a great post.
Then, there's the reality on the other end (90% of Harvard gets "honors" e.g.)
bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
RunRaider wrote:
Kudos to the track program, apparently the only sport to actually call the Athletic Director's bluff and expect a fake "recruit" to show up for practice
Letsrun needs to add a Like's colum to the posts table and give us an upvote feature. This is a great post.
The same Tweet was already given on page 4 (USC Track Oblivion).
bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
Jeez, the Yale soccer coach earned $400,000 from this scam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJNX68zx7rk
That is some serious money. What was her salary? Did she report that money to the IRS?
B. GORDON CAPLAN
46. Defendant GORDON CAPLAN is a resident of Greenwich, Connecticut and New York, New York. CAPLAN is an attorney and the co-chairman of an international law firm based in New York.
He won "Deal Maker of the Year" (American Lawyer magazine) in 2018.
http://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1105484388098363392Luv2Run wrote:
USC is private. How smart are you?
I’m a D2 female runner. Our coach explicitly told us not to visit LetsRun forums.
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