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I doubt she'll be free, she'll cost a carton of cigarettes at least
Of course its all about the eyeballs. It gets people to click on their websites. Nobody’s cares about any other random, non-celebrity people involved. I can’t believe this is even a big deal. This is 100% media driven. It’s a hot story because they made it hot. Does anyone really care that some rich celebrities used their influence to get into college? Is anyone surprised?
I would venture if you asked the general population if this was happening prior to the recent announcements the majority would assume it was somewhat commonplace
I am all for cracking down on it but I am surprised at the sheer amount of media coverage it is getting
It's because it's the largest admissions scandal that the DOJ has decided to prosecute. You all know it happens more than what was reported here
Sorry I disagree, maybe overblown as front page news, but this is pretty egregious and for us to trust our systems at all we need to be diligent to get this type of corruption out. This is well beyond the wink wink of a donation to get my borderline kid into the school. It is fraud plain and simple. For anyone that complains about people not pulling themselves up by their boot straps, you have to also have an issue with anyone getting a true unfair, completely unwarranted advantage, especially when they had every opportunity to better themselves other ways.
There are 20 million college students in th USA. You think all of them are legit? It’s a fluff story to get people riled up. The only serious issue here is the potential tax evasion and fake charity stuff. I am surprised that people are actually surprised. Pick an industry...any industry, and there are people there using money to gain influence and cheat the system. Start at the top with professional lobbyist in DC all the way down to your local school PTA.
she should have told her kid to skip the sats to race helltrack
First, yes it happens, doesn't mean we should turn a blind eye to it,. Second, this is beyond buying influence. Of course I expect any institution or group to listen to the opinion of the people that donate the biggest money. This case is straight up fraud. Hell, Kanye taking the mic from Taylor Swift was front page news for 2 days, 25 million worth of bribes nationwide is a story. If we can prove fraud in those other cases, we should shut that down as well.
I believe most Americans would have no trouble believing that the wealthy elite make donations in order to put their borderline student over the edge to gain admission. What surprises me is the fraud involved with the standardized testing procedures. It seems like these people had someone paid off at every step. A 36-year-old man took the ACT for a student Think about how that must’ve looked in the room when it happened. Really? That’s the best they could come up with is a 36-year-old man to test for a high school student?
I believe the test administrator was in on it too. That's why all these kids were taking it at the same location. How is that not weird if you're the kid? "Hey sweetie flying you out to LA for the ACT this weekend nothing suspicious going on"
Them kids knew. They got a trophy again for doing nothing
FBI said not all of them knew but yeah I'm sure some knew and were fine with it. Wealthy families tend to produce entitled kids
A parent today is suing the universities involved in the scandal for $5 BILLION. Yes, that’s billion with a B. We should file a class action on behalf of Dawg fans since one of the Universities involved was University of TX. Something like this: Longhorns beat Dawgs, but it wasn’t a loss we would be embarrassed by because their athletics are also prestigious. Now that we know that had fake athletes at UT, it lessens the quality of the loss. So, we as DawgNation, have been egregiously harmed. We can sue for $4 billion and split it evenly.
The lawsuits are ridiculous. The universities are being treated as victims of the scam *for now*