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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostOf course, but they used an athletic profile, not a music, band, drama club or others. Athletics.
It shows the clout athletics has in getting a kid into a college and how little attention is paid to it through the admissions office. And this isn't baseball, basketball, the money sports, it's women's soccer at Yale.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostHuh? Fake getting your kid into Yale for huge money...why? How does that help your kid? You planning on holding their hand all the way through? Teach them to find real success, not cheat
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI'm not sure it was Huffman or the other actress's kids, but the reporting indicated that they created fake club profiles from doctored photos.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Posthttps://www.apnews.com/0c37caf26dd34260a2e7f7ab0fa4ce55
Looks like a UCLA soccer coach is involved too.
Huffman’s daughter got into school claiming to be a crew athlete, but she never rowed crew competitively. How do you fake being a rower? Are there subs in rowing who don’t ever show up down at the river? Incredible!!!
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Postyes it's definitely sports that fly under the radar. Even if there is followup, no doubt the student can just say they "decided to dedicate themselves to academics and not participate in school athletics." After all, once you're in officially, you're in.
Huffman truly is a "desperate" housewife/parent. The truth is an absolute defense.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostHuffman paid the least amount it seems, $15,000. Seems like the entry fee to this consultant. UCLA is a state school. She couldn't get into a state school on her own merit? Stanford or Pepperdine I understand, but UCLA, come on. :)
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostIt was Loughlin who paid $500k for her daughter to pose as a crew recruit.
So, Huffman only had her kid participate in the SAT/ACT cheating scam. Looks like posing as a fake athlete is more expensive than just plain ole' cheating.
Summary: Even fake athletics are expensive.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostThe state schools in CA have become VERY competitive. As everything in CA gets more expensive there, the lower and middle class are getting pushed out of USC, UCLA, Cal State, etc. A lot of foreign students with big $ (Chinese, etc.) too. I think the acceptance rates at these state CA schools are almost as low as Stanford, Harvard, etc.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostUCLA is the school that gets the most applications in the entire country. I believe they received 120,000+ last fall. The admit rate hovers around 14% historically but is dropping.
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Besides the two actresses,
The parents included the television star Lori Loughlin and her husband, the fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli; the actress Felicity Huffman; and William E. McGlashan Jr., a partner at the private equity firm TPG, officials said. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/u...gtype=Homepage
This link has the complete list of names but doesn't say who all of them are - probably lots of "captains of industry" or "senior law firm partner" types. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/u...?module=inline
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Postsooooo hard to get into, even harder for certain programs.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostBesides the two actresses,
The parents included the television star Lori Loughlin and her husband, the fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli; the actress Felicity Huffman; and William E. McGlashan Jr., a partner at the private equity firm TPG, officials said. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/u...gtype=Homepage
This link has the complete list of names but doesn't say who all of them are - probably lots of "captains of industry" or "senior law firm partner" types. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/u...?module=inline
https://www.wcvb.com/article/actress...andal/26796604
John Wilson, of Lynnfield, who owns a private equity and real estate development firm, is suspected of bribing the USC water polo coach to designate his son as a recruit to the USC men's water polo team.
"Wilson also sought to use bribes to to obtain the admission of his two daughters to Stanford University and Harvard University as recruited athletes," the complaint reads.
An informant, working at the direction of federal agents, told Wilson that he had secured a spot at Harvard University, the document said. The witness was told to to tell Wilson that a fictitious administrator would designate one of his daughters as an athletic recruit in exchange for $500,000. There was, however, no actual contact with the university.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostIt's high time for these schools to have their comeuppance. The whole consultant industry should get an enema. A wealthy parent I know paid a consultant big bucks for essay help which from what I understand was a total rewrite by the "consultant" who was a former admissions officer. It's become a joke.
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