Grand Kiwi island wrote:https://www.boston25news.com/news/national/operation-varsity-blues-5-things-to-know-about-the-college-cheating-scandal/929766414
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/fe ... spartanntp
Short hand: Several well to do high society people paid a ringleader 25 million dollars to fudge college entrance exams as well as falsify data stating their children were college athletes when they had no intentions of playing on the school teams. Some of the schools involved include Yale, UCLA, and University of Texas and several others. at least 2 colleges head tennis coaches were suspended due to this.
I find this funny and irritating that they'll allow to colleges to continue to raise tuition and give others IST (In state tuition) when there from another country entirely but they'll look the other way when massive fraud and bribery scandal happens with prestigious schools. I think all credits to those who got into school by this scheme should be nullified and have them be forced to pay for college on there own w/o state or federal financial aid.
I think that Professor Alan Dershowitz nailed it when he said that colleges are not giving out grades anymore, and those who are mostly give out As and Bs, allowing the students to just get by. If colleges stopped pampering the students, then the ones who were admitted, but weren't supposed to be there, would've failed out.
Zing!
Ethel mermania wrote:Weird, if you are going to spend 6.5 million to get your kid it, just do it the old fashioned way, donate to the football team.
That's the smart solution, if you can figure that out, your kid deserves to be in college
Bun Queen wrote:What's the point of doing that though? Colleges/Universitys are easy to get into. (Well here it is, but I'm not sure about American Universitys.)
Depends on where you're applying. The top tier universities are actually very hard to get into.