Sure, that's the official story.
Kind of puts a new gloss on "Why wejo sucked in college" though, doesn't it....?
Sure, that's the official story.
Kind of puts a new gloss on "Why wejo sucked in college" though, doesn't it....?
fromtheheart wrote:
LIS (laughing in silence). Only a 997 SAT score . . .
And before people jump on this: Until the early 1970s (I believe), SAT scores could end in something other than a zero. My Verbal score ended with an "8."
That's a good point. How to determine? Without being in the voting booth with them -
who do they make political donations to, individuals and organizations
nature of their own organizations, if of a political bent
contributions to other charitable organizations, foundations, etc.
statements on their own websites, social media posts
In the absence of the above, where they live and / or work on this map -
The bottom line is that these 'elite' schools have done a fantastic selling image to the masses. They have pulled the wool over the eyes of people for years that they somehow set a graduate up for life. You can probably find one or two current threads on this site alone selling that false narrative... sure, there may be a handful of schools which carry additional weight in certain areas but success is hardly determined by the name of the institution on your degree.
On a completely different note, I would not be surprised if many of the parents on this list pulled this stunt more for their own egos than for their kids...
yeah, my kid is going to Yale... oh, your only got into "___" State U... ahh, that's too bad... Johnny seems like such a smart kid.
Glad someone is standing up for Integrity wrote:
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1105831045956583424
Correction: she has 1/1025th sympathy for them.
Let's face it, Rojo and wejo could never have gotten into college without parental shenanigans. They both are basically at the intellectual level of a particularly dim witted kindergartner.
All of these mini-brained brats and their (yes, Rojo, their is correct) shitheel parents need some serious prison time.
What is shocking to me is that this surprises anyone. I don’t even know why it’s newsworthy. This has been going on since colleges were founded.
No "Deplorables" signals / addresses / professions are jumping out at me here -
bottom line... wrote:
The bottom line is that these 'elite' schools have done a fantastic selling image to the masses. They have pulled the wool over the eyes of people for years that they somehow set a graduate up for life. You can probably find one or two current threads on this site alone selling that false narrative... sure, there may be a handful of schools which carry additional weight in certain areas but success is hardly determined by the name of the institution on your degree.
On a completely different note, I would not be surprised if many of the parents on this list pulled this stunt more for their own egos than for their kids...
yeah, my kid is going to Yale... oh, your only got into "___" State U... ahh, that's too bad... Johnny seems like such a smart kid.
The JoBros are proof positive that gaining a highly exclusive/Ivy education is no guarantee of great success in career or life in general. The proverbial born on third base and wound up stuck on second kind. Plenty of Ivy, Stanford, Duke kids wind up as dirtbags and plenty of less affluent kids who went to Enormous State U are making great contributions to society and out-earning those aforementioned peers.
otter wrote:
What is shocking to me is that this surprises anyone. I don’t even know why it’s newsworthy. This has been going on since colleges were founded.
Buying acceptance via donations has legally gone on since inception. Hiring people to either change or flat out take your kids' SATs and then paying bribes to coaches who then fraudulently use their admissions freebies to admit non-athletes as athletes (with photoshopped pictures and all) has NOT gone on since inception. It's a tremendous scandal that is going to be reported on for a long time going forward. However, what has largely been incorrect is the commonly reported notion that a lot of qualified kids who otherwise would have been admitted are the victims. No, the kids who otherwise would have been the worst athletes on their teams (and likely also unqualified but somewhat competent at a sport) were replaced by these non-athlete kids. Shame on the ADs for either intentionally ignoring this or being so incompetent that they missed all of these non-athletes being admitted on their watches. There will be more fallout with admin people in the ADs getting canned.
Ruh Ro wrote:
otter wrote:
What is shocking to me is that this surprises anyone. I don’t even know why it’s newsworthy. This has been going on since colleges were founded.
Buying acceptance via donations has legally gone on since inception. Hiring people to either change or flat out take your kids' SATs and then paying bribes to coaches who then fraudulently use their admissions freebies to admit non-athletes as athletes (with photoshopped pictures and all) has NOT gone on since inception. It's a tremendous scandal that is going to be reported on for a long time going forward. However, what has largely been incorrect is the commonly reported notion that a lot of qualified kids who otherwise would have been admitted are the victims. No, the kids who otherwise would have been the worst athletes on their teams (and likely also unqualified but somewhat competent at a sport) were replaced by these non-athlete kids. Shame on the ADs for either intentionally ignoring this or being so incompetent that they missed all of these non-athletes being admitted on their watches. There will be more fallout with admin people in the ADs getting canned.
Bribes for high SAT scores and having someone take the test for you has also been going on since the test was first administered. It’s foolish to think otherwise.
You can easily crossreference the 26 parent defendants against donor lists + voter registration (let's ignore tactical reasons for cross-registering and/or cross-donating for now).
Or you can observe the media silence regarding any "conservative" names: if they existed, the MSM would be on it.
I can't believe this is news. I thought that was standard practice.
separate worlds wrote:
You can easily crossreference the 26 parent defendants against donor lists + voter registration (let's ignore tactical reasons for cross-registering and/or cross-donating for now).
Or you can observe the media silence regarding any "conservative" names: if they existed, the MSM would be on it.
I'm sure that this fraud encompasses just Hollywood-types who live in California and are Democrats. There's no possible way a Republican living anywhere else in the country, or in California, would be involved in such deceit.
What I'm curious about how did these not so steller high school academic students do academically when they got to Harvard. It would seem that someone with 1000 on their SAT wouldn't do too well in classes with those scoring many hundreds of points higher.
separate worlds wrote:
You can easily crossreference the 26 parent defendants against donor lists + voter registration (let's ignore tactical reasons for cross-registering and/or cross-donating for now).
Or you can observe the media silence regarding any "conservative" names: if they existed, the MSM would be on it.
You might want to go back through this thread because someone already exposed a conservative or two.
The entire scam was set up by William Singer.
He created the fake charity, bribed the school officials, hired the test takers, recruited the parents.
You watch. He will get off very lightly.
He is a member of the protected tribe.
Efficient allocation. The amount you're willing to pay for something is equivalent to the value that you get out of that thing. If someone is willing to pay more money than me to get into a specific school, they obviously value the acceptance more than I do. It is economically efficient for that person to get the seat.
Coach J46 wrote:
What I'm curious about how did these not so steller high school academic students do academically when they got to Harvard. It would seem that someone with 1000 on their SAT wouldn't do too well in classes with those scoring many hundreds of points higher.
Harvard not implicated -- Yale was though. Yale is pretty easy if you know what classes to take. B tier Ivy
Coach J46 wrote:
What I'm curious about how did these not so steller high school academic students do academically when they got to Harvard. It would seem that someone with 1000 on their SAT wouldn't do too well in classes with those scoring many hundreds of points higher.
Perhaps they get someone to assume their identity for exams. Getting caught at that got Ted Kennedy suspended from Harvard, though he was re-admitted and was eventually graduated. Getting someone to write their papers or complete their homework should be much easier.
From Wikipedia:
College, military service, and law school[edit]
Like his father and brothers before him, Ted attended and graduated from Harvard College, although not without controversy.[11] In his spring semester, he was assigned to the athlete-oriented Winthrop House, where his brothers had also lived.[11] He was an offensive and defensive end on the freshman football team; his play was characterized by his large size and fearless style.[2] In his first semester, Kennedy and his classmates arranged to copy answers from another student during the final examination for a science class.[12] At the end of his second semester in May 1951, Kennedy was anxious about maintaining his eligibility for athletics for the next year,[2] and he had a classmate take his place at a Spanish exam.[13][14] The ruse was immediately discovered and both students were expelled for cheating.[13][15] In a standard Harvard treatment for serious disciplinary cases, they were told they could apply for readmission within a year or two if they demonstrated good behavior during that time.[13][16]
In June 1951, Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army and signed up for an optional four-year term that was shortened to the minimum of two years after his father intervened.[13] Following basic training at Fort Dix in New Jersey, he requested assignment to Fort Holabird in Maryland for Army Intelligence training, but was dropped without explanation after a few weeks.[13] He went to Camp Gordon in Georgia for training in the Military Police Corps.[13] In June 1952, Kennedy was assigned to the honor guard at SHAPE headquarters in Paris, France.[2][13] His father's political connections ensured that he was not deployed to the ongoing Korean War.[2][17] While stationed in Europe, he traveled extensively on weekends and climbed the Matterhorn in the Pennine Alps.[18] He was discharged after 21 months in March 1953 as a private first class.[13][18]
Kennedy re-entered Harvard in the summer of 1953 and improved his study habits.[2] His brother John was a U.S. Senator and the family was attracting more public attention.[19] Ted joined The Owl final club in 1954[20] and was also chosen for the Hasty Pudding Club and the Pi Eta fraternity.[21] Kennedy was on athletic probation during his sophomore year, and he returned as a second-string two-way end for the Crimson football team during his junior year and barely missed earning his varsity letter.[22] Nevertheless, he received a recruiting feeler from Green Bay Packers head coach Lisle Blackbourn, who asked him about his interest in playing professional football.[23] Kennedy demurred, saying he had plans to attend law school and to "go into another contact sport, politics."[24] In his senior season of 1955, Kennedy started at end for the Harvard football team and worked hard to improve his blocking and tackling to complement his 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), 200 lb (91 kg) size.[18] In the season-ending Harvard-Yale game in the snow at the Yale Bowl on November 19 (which Yale won 21–7), Kennedy caught a pass to score Harvard's only touchdown;[25] the team finished the season with a 3–4–1 record.[26] Academically, Kennedy received mediocre grades for his first three years, improved to a B average for his senior year, and finished barely in the top half of his class.[27] Kennedy graduated from Harvard at age 24 in 1956 with an AB in history and government.[27][28]
Due to his low grades, Kennedy was not accepted by Harvard Law School.[16] He instead followed his brother Bobby and enrolled in the University of Virginia School of Law in 1956.[2] That acceptance was controversial among faculty and alumni, who judged Kennedy's past cheating episodes at Harvard to be incompatible with the University of Virginia's honor code; it took a full faculty vote to admit him.[29] Kennedy also attended the Hague Academy of International Law during one summer.[30] At Virginia, Kennedy felt that he had to study "four times as hard and four times as long" as other students to keep up with them.[31] He received mostly C grades[31] and was in the middle of the class ranking, but was the winner of the prestigious William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition.[2][32] He was elected head of the Student Legal Forum and brought many prominent speakers to the campus via his family connections.[33] While there, his questionable automotive practices were curtailed when he was charged with reckless driving and driving without a license.[2] While attending law school, he was officially named as manager of his brother John's 1958 Senate re-election campaign; Ted's ability to connect with ordinary voters on the street helped bring a record-setting victory margin that gave credibility to John's presidential aspirations.[34] Ted graduated from law school in 1959.[33]
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