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From COTR: https://www.chicksonright.com/blog/2019/03/13/sen-warren-asked-if-she-has-sympathy-for-people-who-cheat-to-get-into-college/
Drives me nuts though, as I'm an upper-middle-class parent who's busting his ass to do it the right way, sending my kids to private high school and staying on top of them so that they get the grades needed to get into a good college, all-the-while paying off my own student loans after almost entirely putting myself through college.
SMH
Could not get into Harvard so his dad bought his way in could not get secret clearance so his father in law gave it to him. what a charmed life
Donating a potfull of money to a school so your kid could get accepted is unacceptable, yet, however disgusting it may be, is NOT in anyway the same thing as bribing people to let your kids cheat on their SATs and ACT's, nor paying people to change their answers on those tests so they could get better scores.
There have been a lot of disgusting phonies in the world over the years, PZ, but NONE are as disgusting and as phony as YOU!
This is nothing like bribing officials to cheat to get your dumb kids into the U.
I went to Stanford and every building across the U had someone's name on it from the gyms to the research buildings to the cafeterias to the athletic centers to the student lounges to the auditoriums, etc etc etc. I fully expect that whoever's name was on that building contributed something to the U whether it be money or time served and that helped their descendants get into the U. While using those facilities myself, I was totally ok with that.
Now, someone's parents cheating on their kid's SATs so they could get in? Hell no.
if laws were broken, prosecute
the whole thing smells funny, fivers is on the same scent trail
warren is squirrel-turd nutty
zeidan is chunks in kushners poo
I doubt there are a lot more shoes to fall in this because the number of universities with highly restrictive admissions is fairly limited.
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We live in a never ending cycle of scandal, sign of the times I guess.
As far as gaining the education system, this to have been going on since the Viet Nam War. If you fortunate to be born of privilege you got the pass from the draft and entrance in the top tier college. CCR- The Senator's Son about sum it up.
We're enjoying watching the big college admissions scandal story unfold, as it's got a little something for everybody. Hate rich people? Hate people who game the system? Hate people who live in a privileged bubble that you'll never enjoy? Hate Hollywood celebrities? This fraud's for you!
And while we chuckled over the hypocrisy of Senator Elizabeth "Princess Cheekbones" Warren saying that she has zero sympathy for people who fudge collegiate documents to get ahead (ironically while she was giving a clandestine "White Power" gang sign)...
...we couldn't help but be reminded of the long-running and highly plausible rumor that Barack Obama (or Barry Soetoro as he called himself at the time) got major funding help from Occidental College by claiming to be a foreign student. Of course, we can't confirm this blatant fraud - nor can Lefties disprove it - because Obama had the documentation sealed from public view...much like every other piece of information about his past. Because "transparency" apparently works best when armed guards protect your secrets.
But the college admission scandal isn't really about politics - it's about privilege, and those who abuse it. Actress Lori Loughlin apparently paid $500,000 to get her daughters into a good school, an amount for which you could probably buy entrance for a dead hamster or a small bowl of succotash. One daughter was already earning $300,000 a year on Youtube and questioned why she even needed college (not a bad point), though allowed that she'd grudgingly attend to enjoy "game day and partying."
We frankly doubt that this distracting, shiny object of a scandal (seen any major stories about FBI mattress Lisa Page testifying that Obama's DOJ ordered the FBI not to pursue charges against Hillary?) will make any real impact on fixing America's badly broken college system. But we do hope to see the guilty appropriately shamed and punished, if only to enjoy a brief moment of nostalgia for the way justice is supposed to work.
And who knows, maybe in this case it will...
LMAO!!!!
I went to Stanford (not for undergrad, waaaay too expensive for me) and I had a tinge of pride/happiness when Chelsea Clinton chose Stanford, even if it was just to stick it to Harvard, Duke, and Yale and Stanford is the most conservative school of the bunch.
Just like athletes who don't have as good of grades as the kids who get in based exclusively on academics, some admission slots in every University are reserved for some students who help the University in one way or the other, be it notoriety through sports, money for facilities so students don't have to pay even higher tuition for facilities, or in case of many University's opinions, for the sake of diversity alone.
There's nothing wrong with a private institution looking out for it's own advancement, whatever that may be. A case could be made against this for public universities (although most public universities nowadays are getting a smaller and smaller % of their total monies from the state govt), but they have to compete and survive as well.
Universities attract the best candidates based on a lot of factors and the best overall student body + the best overall faculty + the best overall facilities = what defines the best University.
Great posts!
Why?
For the prestige of having American students attending the university.
Great posts, Idly. "There's nothing wrong with a private institution looking out for it's own advancement, whatever that may be. A case could be made against this for public universities"
I agree with this. However even the private schools milk the government as much as they can, so have an obligation that they would not if they were truly independent. If you want real independence look at Hillsdale.
BTW, when my kids were approaching their teens I looked them in the eye and told them "You are going to college and you are paying for it. Start figuring out how you are going to do it."
They have both thanked us multiple times for that. One had lots of jobs and some scholarships. One had lots of scholarships and some jobs. They both came out with minimal debt and a great work ethic.
