Serious Question about College Admissions Scandal

[Atfulldraw]

Seriously though, this is just another shot in the class envy war they are trying to foment.

Just so happens a lot of limousine liberals got caught up in it too

[GarGuy]

I think they should investigate how really rich folks get on the best deer leases too!

[BrianL]

This isn't about the schools doing it, it is about their employees taking the money, and the people giving bribes then using it as a tax deduction......stupid....stupid....stupid.

[ByronB]

Part of the scheme was altering SAT and other test results.


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This^^^^^ A person or persons were taking SAT exams or providing the answers for them. That would be illegal.

[Take Dead Aim]

This^^^^^ A person or persons were taking SAT exams or providing the answers for them. That would be illegal.

Is there a law a state or felony law against that? I would think that would be between the individual, school and SAT. Not sure how or why the state or feds would be involved in the SAT but maybe so. By no means am I saying I agree with the cheating.

[kyle1974]

This whole thing is kind of funny to me. Walk through any university system in the country and you’ll see some “important” family’s name on the side of a building somewhere.

Does anyone think that the children/grandchildren or anyone else that important family seems worthy would ever have a hard time being admitted to that school?

Like most corruption rings, the reason this is a big deal is because the usual suspects were cut out of the deal.

[Russ81]

I'll give you another example, went to a small D2 school. There were foreigners in several my classes that could barely speak English and could not read English. Heck some barely came to class, but they graduated just like me. I asked a professor I became close to when I was working on my MBA about how this is possible. She said that this school has a big market for foreigners. They come over here, go to college, get a degree, and then tell their brother, sisters, and cousins about it. Then they come and get an "education". Best part is, they pay cash. Money talks and bull spit walks.

Yuuuuuuup, TAMUK was the same way in the engineering dept. When Irma Rangel was alive they were all about everybody having a chance at higher education. She wasn’t even cold in her grave and the regents spiked the tuition and made it a cash cow down south.




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[Russ81]

I understand the legalities of it. What I don't understand is why there's such an outcry for this nonsense. Most people don't even understand why what they did was illegal. They just want to harp on the wealthy using their money to fix the game and etc. As some have said in this thread, that's just life.

I’ll play devil’s advocate and say it plays well too the socialist libs that the rich man is screwing you but if we all share and share alike it’ll be rainbow stew and sliver spoons if we’d just elect them.


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[DRT]

Yeah it really doesn't mean much to me.

Gary

[Artos]

If you can’t qualify due to being too stupid & gotta pay for your kid to pass the SAT, yet the same Kid then cruises through the college to graduate they scammed??

Sounds like we gotta problem beyond cheating to simply getting into the front door of these universities?? I’m betting there are payoffs for grades to graduation if they really look into this.

[SwampRanger]

Didn’t keep my kid out of Havad, Yell, or TU

What was the question?

[BigThicketBoy]

If they're silver spoons there most definitely not peckerwoods.
Seems like fraud and bribery.

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[Dusty Britches]

Yuuuuuuup, TAMUK was the same way in the engineering dept. When Irma Rangel was alive they were all about everybody having a chance at higher education. She wasn’t even cold in her grave and the regents spiked the tuition and made it a cash cow down south.




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Yeah? That cash cow stayed home when the visa process changed in 2017 to address illegal and potential terrorist entry. TAMUK's foreign student enrollment dropped so significantly they faced funding shortfalls. So did many other D2 universities. I don't have time to pull the actual enrollment, but if you go to tamus.edu and search EmpowerU, you can look up the data.

[Russ81]

Yeah? That cash cow stayed home when the visa process changed in 2017 to address illegal and potential terrorist entry. TAMUK's foreign student enrollment dropped so significantly they faced funding shortfalls. So did many other D2 universities. I don't have time to pull the actual enrollment, but if you go to tamus.edu and search EmpowerU, you can look up the data.

I’m sure it did Dusty but I was talking about back in the early 2000’s when I was there. First two years there it was affordable (less then $1500 a semester) and after Rangel died it doubled.


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[Clay C]

All I know is I'd let Aunt Becky scam my admissions any day.