Fallout from college admissions scandal worsening for accused parents, institutions
Los Angeles Times,
by
Richard Winton
&
Hannah Fry
Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx,
3/16/2019 1:59:50 PM
The college admissions cheating scandal that was revealed this week is shaping up to have long-term ramifications for both the parents accused in the scheme and the large world of getting into college. Some of the parents who are accused of cheating to get their children into elite schools are facing civil lawsuits in addition to federal criminal charges. Meanwhile, there is talk in Congress of new laws aimed at cracking down, and the Department of Education is also reviewing the case. Several of the colleges involved have launched their own probes. The sweeping criminal investigation, which came to light earlier
Reply 1 - Posted by:
cor-vet 3/16/2019 2:03:54 PM (No. 3037)
So the congressional hypocrites are thinking about a law to end favoritism for the rich and famous. How about doing away with all the exemptions that favor congress. Tell us how many congressional lmembers exempted their children for service.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Northcross 3/16/2019 2:08:04 PM (No. 3035)
We should all feel better now that we know the crack investigators from the Department of Education are on the case.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Califedup 3/16/2019 2:10:57 PM (No. 3031)
As usual the solution to a problem in this case cheating by parents so their kids can get into elite schools for communist indoctrination, is more government rule and laws.
Horror of horrors the Department of Ignorance is "looking" into it. What business is it of a federal department, which most people are in favor of abolishing, getting involved in this crime?
Send the all of the elite parents and administrators to prison, kick their spoiled brats out of the colleges, and that will deter this sort of BS in the future.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
watercheetah 3/16/2019 2:25:28 PM (No. 3032)
Aw shucks, these are all good leftists who made a little boo-boo! Just give them a a few hours of community service. What if these were conservatives? White privilege! LOCK ´EM UP!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 3/16/2019 2:32:41 PM (No. 3019)
Every college should be obligated to use 50 to 75 percent of their endowment funds to fund student loan programs for their students. Maybe even more, since their all so focused on education /sarc
Harvard´s is worth something like 1.3 million per student,
Princeton´s is worth around 1.6 million per student.
If the university wants their money returned to them, they can make sure that they graduate students that can, and want to pay it back.
Once this money is focused on something productive, we will see huge changes in admissions, faculty and the degrees that are granted.
Right now, this money creates wealth for the money managers who handle it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Hugh Akston 3/16/2019 2:37:38 PM (No. 3026)
Several of the colleges involved have launched their own probes.
What are they gonna do, admit they were already doing the "nod, nod, wink, wink"? This was likely known at multiple levels at these institutions and others that haven´t been caught. Buying admission has probably been going on since colleges were first started and has trickled down to kindergarten at this point.
College basketball sneaker scandal...UNC having fake classes with fake attendance in African-American studies...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
rfr46 3/16/2019 2:37:57 PM (No. 3012)
These people are cheats and creeps. But, honestly, the FBI is on the case and having million dollar bail????
Meanwhile, the Congress is free, after condemning millions of families to ruinous debt with college loans (enforced by the US Government). Hillary roams free after the big fix.
So, what gives? I will tell you. A totally corrupt FBI trying to change the subject, that´s what!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ben Around 3/16/2019 2:40:15 PM (No. 3030)
FTA - " Several of the colleges involved have launched their own probes."
Oh, that´s laughable!!!
Let´s start by ending the taxpayers´ subsidizing of those corrupt organizations that just indoctrinate our young ones with communism.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Hugh Akston 3/16/2019 2:40:48 PM (No. 3034)
...all designed to get ´students´ that aren´t able to perform at a level most real students are tested for.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Jerseyden 3/16/2019 3:02:23 PM (No. 3017)
Do away with quotas and setasides and legacy admissions and just use merit problem would solve itself. Can’t blame people with money or influence to try to bypass the current rigged system.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 3/16/2019 3:25:25 PM (No. 3015)
"Several of the colleges involved have launched their own probes."
So their right hands are going to investigate their left hands?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
HotRod 3/16/2019 4:01:55 PM (No. 3020)
There are already laws for these crimes. That´s why these people are in trouble. Why do we need more laws? Why doesn´t congress just do it´s job and pass a budget, for example?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 3/16/2019 4:29:19 PM (No. 3022)
The real scandal is the Marxist indoctrination that these ´elite´ colleges relentlessly cram into their students´ heads. That plus worthless degrees in social justice majors and grade inflation. I would never hire someone who majored in gender studies or some other laughable ´discipline´. You know immediately that the graduate is clueless about the real world.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
SALady 3/16/2019 4:41:59 PM (No. 3036)
These rich parents broke the law and should be punished. But the extent of the crying and wailing about this "scandal" is ridiculous!!!!!
If I hear one more person complain about how unfair this was to students that were more qualified and didn´t get accepted, I am going to puke!!!!!
At most, this is a few hundred rich kids whose parents were lazy and stupid, and did this illegal stuff to get their kids in to college.
But there are tens of thousands (if not more) of unqualified minority kids that are accepted to better colleges every year in the name of "affirmative action". For every one of them, a more qualified student (with better grades, better test scores, and a much better resume) is denied admissions!!!!
And I won´t even get into the thousands of athletes with really bad grades and terrible test scores that are admitted because they can run fast or throw a ball in a hoop consistently. But at least they do pay back a little bit by giving entertainment to their fellow students. But those are still unqualified students that prevented a much more qualified student from attending.
Punish the rich parents for breaking the law. But if you want crocodile tears over the poor kids who missed out on admissions because a less qualified student was admitted, you had better be open to the "big picture" discussion!!!!!!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
CJohnson 3/16/2019 4:57:36 PM (No. 3018)
i wonder if Mueller will ever hear about it...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
subal 3/16/2019 5:06:28 PM (No. 3028)
Since the payments were contributions to a non profit, then all their Us tax reports should be refiled!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
snakeoil 3/16/2019 5:08:51 PM (No. 3027)
The average and median grades at places like Harvard and Yale are As. Their academic standards are a joke. Their most famous and distinguished profs don´t teach. Teaching is done by graduate students from the Third World. Send your kids to Slippery Rock. They´ll get a better education and save a ton of money.
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After observing Obama´s story, I had already lost all respect for a degree from Harvard. Now I have more respect for a degree from a state university....any state school not caught up in this mess.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
emmajustin 3/16/2019 5:33:02 PM (No. 3024)
The LAST thing we need is more government.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Sam1 3/16/2019 5:45:06 PM (No. 3040)
And, then there´s David Hogg and Harvard.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Holeymoses 3/16/2019 6:00:27 PM (No. 3023)
What will be interesting is to see where these kids eventually end up. Will the phoney test takers have to retake exams?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 3/16/2019 6:53:24 PM (No. 3039)
Looks like we now know what the DOE needed all that ammo and guns for.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
cor-vet 3/16/2019 8:35:54 PM (No. 3033)
If Nancy Pelosi or the Beast ever need emergency doctoring, I hope it´s one of these elite admission kids or one of the free education illegal aliens or an affirmative action grad.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/16/2019 9:20:21 PM (No. 3029)
As Alan Dershowitz has said, 60 years ago when he started teaching at Harvard the grade standards were so high that unqualified students would have flunked out and the scam would not have succeeded.
But today there is so much grade inflation, or not requiring any grades at all, that unqualified students can make it through a lot of supposedly top flight colleges and universities as long as they pay their tuition and living expenses, attend the majority of their classes, show some interest when called upon, and get along with whoever the instructors are who are presenting their classes. Clearly the current grade inflation or not requiring any grades at all did not come about so that just the children of the rich and famous could make it through, but also so that a lot of affirmative action based diversity students can graduate with ethnic and racial studies degrees, without having a clue about real disciplines in the legitimate sciences that lead to valued STEM degrees and the like.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 3/16/2019 10:21:30 PM (No. 3013)
Will the IRS be investigating the college employed personnel involved to see if any bribe money was pocketed and not declared as income? Tax evasion is a serious crime...
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
JimBob 3/17/2019 3:14:58 AM (No. 3038)
Is it just me?
I read that there were ´50 families´ at least who willingly took part in this scam.
But, other than the two actresses who have had their photos plastered onto just about every article about the scandal, I do NOT see a list of the REST of the CHEATER PARENTS.
I wonder... HOW MANY of them (who just HAPPENED to get -cough, cough- ´CAUGHT UP´ IN the scandal) are Good Lefties who just HAPPEN in a position to CONTROL WHERE THE ADVERTISING MONEY GETS SPENT!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Trigger2 3/17/2019 4:29:53 AM (No. 3016)
The universities are investigating? Is that a joke? I already know that outcome: Nothing to see here.
By the way, #5 is on to something. Aside from removing the goobermint from student loans and that $1.5T hole for taxpayers that the libtard commies want to soak us with by forgiving loans, universities should be forced to use their endowment money, not our taxpayer money.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 3/17/2019 7:56:57 AM (No. 3025)
I sure am glad that our modern FIB didn´t have any MS13 dudes that needed investigating.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/17/2019 8:23:51 AM (No. 3014)
I thought SNL had an opportunity, last night, for some real humor on this topic, for their opening skit.
Instead, it was make fun of Trump yet again.
Why would they pass on such a ripe satirical skit?
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