Not her too?
Rebecca, darling how could you?
shareCan't private schools admit whoever they want for whatever reason they want? Why does it matter if they bribe the school?
sharePerhaps, but why did the Admissions Board have to fake SAT scores in order to admit these kids?
That's the part that pisses me off.
I wouldn't have a problem if they just honestly said "yeah, these kids are dumbasses, but their parents are rich and we want their cash", but they're trying to hoodwink the rest of us into thinking these brats got in through merit.
...but they're trying to hoodwink the rest of us into thinking these brats got in through merit.
I agree. If they received the actual grades they earned, I'm OK, but I'm sure those parents would never tell anyone their kids were admitted because of a bit of backroom shenanigans. share
The whole Ivy League system is bullshit anyway.
Everyone knows that many rich kids already get in because they're Legacy Preferences, rather than via merit.
And as long as no-one is starry-eyed about so-called 'meritocracy' and the sacrosanct value of an Ivy League education, I don't have a big problem with it.
It's the pretence, and the bullshit self-belief these kids have, that bugs me. They were born on third base but they genuine think they've scored a home run.
It's the pretence, and the bullshit self-belief these kids have, that bugs me. They were born on third base but they genuine think they've scored a home run.
Yeah, I suppose. I do see your point, and I've certainly run into my share of uber snobbery in my lifetime, but I always defer to what my dad used to say when I complained over stuff he didn't think was worth the concern: "you've got bigger fish to fry boy".
Off the topic, but I've always wondered if it's the education that makes the graduate or if it's the intelligence and quality of the incoming student that makes up the college's reputation. share
Off the topic, but I've always wondered if it's the education that makes the graduate or if it's the intelligence and quality of the incoming student that makes up the college's reputation.Probably a bit of both.
I do gather that elite colleges and private schools, in addition to admitting a high proportion of rich, and often mediocre, kids, also recruit top students from relatively poorer backgrounds, in order to boost their grade averages, and to hopefully incentivise the less able kids, who are only there thanks to mommy and daddy, to study harder. share
I don't get it either. Where is the federal crime here?
shareIt looks like it's because they didn't go directly to the university to buy admission for their kids. That's how Kushner got into Harvard with a 2.5 mil donation from his daddy.
Instead they went to an intermediary college prep org that was involved in obtaining bogus recommendations and fake SAT scores to get their dumb kids in. That's fraud.
Maybe they were trying to save some money by doing it on the cheap. Going direct would have cost them a boatload more than the amounts they were paying to this fraudulent organization. Bad idea.
I think you may be right.
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