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In the case of the young poster here, he said he had knowledge of his father's hands all over the application - one which the student would never have begun himself - but that his father falsified none of his activities, awards, accomplishments, grades, etc.
CC was in a torrential buzz over that one.
Example. We had a large fund to support two related humanities majors, generally treated as same department, by most colleges. Then, the relationship was split into two depts. The U could not just decide on the split of funds. They had to go back to the donors for permission. (Older fund, without the caveat.)
If $ available for distribution cannot be applied as stated, it may just revert to the endowment, that year. But today, that would also e stated in the contract.
Don't get locked up on the fact of money. It has to be properly applied.
There are all kinds of restrictions on use of donations.
Someone mentioned English departments "consuming" funds as if they are money losers. Many research universities are really using money from programs like English to cross-subsidize other areas like research and STEM.
That is beyond belief. He should be fired for committing this fraud. Two student ids. It’s like identity theft.
Seems a bit hard to believe but certainly trust you on this as factual.
Quite a lot of work. And why did he do this exactly ? What did he tell you and what was the motivation. Some bonus or something?
It doesn’t make sense to me.
There’s a “pro” discus tour. Women and men’s tours?
Learn something new everyday.
Not sure I’m paying good money to see the LA Flying Saucers take on the Chicago Skeets anytime soon
I submitted my daughter's Common Application myself. That year CA was malfunctioning and I used a VPN at work to submit it from a European IP address (that worked better). I did not do any changes to the content although I could and nobody would know.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/students-were-advised-to-claim-to-be-minorities-in-college-admissions-scandal-11558171800?mod=hp_lead_pos1
No, they didn't have to be funded. They only had to be treated the same as men's sports. If a school decided that paying for two versions of the whole Division I dog and pony show was too expensive post Title IX, all they had to do was apply half the men's budget to women.
I know, I know. It's laughable, right? What university would expect men's sports to share?
Some time ago I saw an article which detailed the Klapper warrant for arrest, along with a photo of Marjorie Klapper being escorted into or out of a court building. A second image related to the article, that of a Black kid pole vaulting, seemed so oddly placed, and I thought at the time, "who chose to use this badly placed stock image?"
Unbelievable.
Those weren't required. Although the school would accept the common ap, it wasn't required and if you used the common app you had to pay the fee, but if you used the school app, it was free. Daughter took a math placement test and wrote a (very) short essay after being admitted, mostly for placement into the right math class and the right English class.
The coach was new and was trying to get the athletes reviewed for admission (quick and dirty admissions evaluation) and considered for merit aid as quickly as possible. It wasn't fraud. The coach was hired in July, had a baby in August, and started recruiting in Sept after moving her family 1000 miles. She needed to recruit an entire women's team (~20) to a STEM school that was 75% male and she had to find girls who could play, wanted to go to a STEM school, and could afford it. We were there on a weekend and this schools admissions offices weren't open, so the coach had taken the transcript we'd sent, including the test scores, and got 'pre read' info from the AO. When we sat down with the coach, she was able to tell us that daughter would be admitted, that she'd receive $$$ in merit aid (auto based on gpa and scores), $ in two small grants, and that she could offer $$$ in athletic aid.
I don't know if the coach actually filled out an application but she got a file started in the admissions office, which we didn't know, so Daughter filled out an application online (free). The double file/double student number didn't even come to my attention until she went to register for second semester, 16 months after the double files were created. A lot of documentation kept going missing (high school transcripts, choice for meal plan, some financial aid) and whenever that happened they'd fix it and no one figured out the double files until I suggested it. We were getting double marketing material from this school all that year, but I had two kids headed to college and we got tons of mail so I didn't think anything of it (we got much more mail from WUSTL -like something every day). Daughter has a double first name and coach only used one name on the file. Now what is stupid is the school couldn't figure out that Mary Ann Smith is the same as Mary Smith and merge the files, but they didn't. But she did get accepted twice, once under the coach's file, once under her own application, two student numbers, but I didn't notice.
But all this is to say that not all athletes fill out the official application, don't do the essays and letters of rec, etc, as they aren't required by every school. My other daughter (non athlete) didn't need to do the recs or essays either. Not all schools require them.
Many school do have fewer men's varsity teams than women's because the men's teams are larger and cost more. It's quite common to see that a big D1 school has 10-11 men's teams (including the super large football team) and 13-14 women's teams. In the last few years, some have dropped men's track but kept the women's team. Men's swimming has also taken a hit. Six schools in the Pac-12 have women's lacrosse teams but only Utah (which doesn't have a women's team) has a men's team, and it was started and funded by a private donation. I bet Utah will add a women's team soon, to kept the equity, but the school will have to fund it.
I think Title IX has been wonderful for women's athletics. It is no way near equal, but it is a lot closer than it used to be.
Even the Ivy kids are getting pre-reads for acceptance and FA in July before the applications are submitted. Admissions is reviewing the applications without essays, recommendations, interviews, senior grades or awards.