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Replies to: Feds uncover admissions test cheating plot
From an article: " beginning January 1, 2017, the College Board will automatically approve accommodations for the vast majority of students who receive school-based testing accommodations through a formal school-based plan (IEP or 504 Plan for public school students and comparable plans for private school students)" (https://www.****/blog/2016/12/15/sweeping-changes-to-sat-and-act-accommodations)
Once a qualified licensed provider submits a full write up after xx-day evaluation, the schools & CB are in no way capable of disproving the need. Unless the schools & CB want to start their own psych analysis program with their own approved docs, they have to rubber stamp the request.
All of this was easily foreseen (and predicted by some of us) way back with CB settled the lawsuit.
A friend has had accommodations since K. She recently asked for the accommodations for the GRE and it was denied. Appeal. Approved. She needs not only extra time but a private room.
New article in Wired magazine today.
"The parents who paid for Singer’s services inadvertently punched their kids in the guts. The message to their children, as Eileen Kennedy-Moore, a clinical psychologist, told MarketWatch, was “I don’t have faith that you are capable of succeeding based on your own skills and hard work, and I don’t believe you’re strong enough to cope with disappointment.” An ego-stroking deepfake, to the extent that it’s supposed to look real, sends the same demoralizing message."
"But the new pose of the rich as hard workers is indeed another version of consuming conspicuously. What more spiteful thing for the entitled to do than rob others of even their most earned, try-hard moments … without lifting a finger? Everyone in the scam is set up to protect the leisure, languor, ignorance, and ego of the cosseted student—the coaches, the parents, the bribed officials, the friends who know she doesn’t play sports"
https://www.wired.com/story/college-scandal-shallowfakes-reveal-about-the-rich/?CNDID=40293494&CNDID=40293494&bxid=MjM5NjgxMTk0NzM5S0&hasha=556a9fdf5300f9ac3a0695ea112a1878&hashb=428201ada833dab4b1c8efe5dde8448bac1cc8c4&mbid=nl_052619_backchannel_list3_p1&source=BACKCHANNEL_NEWSLETTER&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=Backchannel NL 052619 Top 50 (1)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl
enjoy!
I think they specifically wanted their kids into particular reputation colleges.
So not that OJ couldn't get into Cal State, but that they wanted the USC sort of academic and social school, primarily for the social cachet, fun experience for her, there.
It's not ordinary parenting,
Because anything less than an acceptance at a highly competitive "top" college, would show that their kids weren't as "special" as their parents considered them, or themselves to be.
"I know a lot of people who want their kids to go to a certain school and they do what they can to make that happen. "
short of committing fraud, I hope!
Remember that it's not just extra money, your kid would have to play along to get a fake diagnosis. Pretend to "be stupid" as Singer said in the court documents.
Ugh, not even close to worth it in my book.
My nephew was told at one school that they didn't use essays as part of the application any more because there was so much abuse. However, if the school gets rid of one part of the application, then the other parts become more important. My kids both applied (and attended) schools without an essay as part of the application.