One thing I can predict is going on at this very moment: Every college named in the indictment…along with every top-tier school worried of being dragged into it…is combing the accepted notices that will be going out in late March and making absolutely positively sure that there’s not even a taint of suspicion of how that person got in. We’ll never know but there will likely be a handful of kids here at CC who will find themselves in the Ivy League next fall based on being slotted into one of these vacated spots.
@SouthernHope Agreed. May even hurt some athletes who thought they were getting in RD (and some do go thru RD), because now it may look too bad.
^ From the affidavit, all the contracting parents were told the scheme was some type of fraud or bribery.
Back in the day there were episodes of Full House where the oldest child of the family went through the college admissions process. I wonder if Aunt Becky could have shelled out some cash to help grease the skids.
Unfortunately money does talk and not in a good way. The whole college admissions process has become convoluted. Fair or unfair, the German process of identifying students (vocational vs. university track/Abitur) and putting them on the various educational tracks might be the least evil system to higher education.
@SouthernHope "Every college named in the indictment…along with every top-tier school worried of being dragged into it…is combing the accepted notices that will be going out in late March and making absolutely positively sure that there’s not even a taint of suspicion of how that person got in. "
And if that happens, some good will have come out of this whole mess.
Remember when Carmela Soprano intimidated/bribed the neighbors sister into getting her daughter into Georgetown…She was ahead of her time!
I thought most athletic recruits get in via early admission.
Parents could not have a limited role in the scheme. The scheme WAS the parents role. No parents no scheme.
^^Macy claims he was not involved – it was all his wife’s doing. Laughlin’s husband has an e-mail train showing that he knew/was involved.
If I was an affected college Prez, I’d offer them the opportunity to withdraw or be expelled. Regardless of whether they ‘knew’, the kids still obtained admission fraudulently, and that should not be rewarded.
I saw a transcript of a call - can’t find it now - between Singer and a parent, where Singer is recounting a conversation he had with a previous student who contacted him after his score went up (with help from the proctor), saying he’d like to take it again because he thinks he could raise it more. Singer and the parent (not of this student) had a big laugh over that. So yes, I really think some kids didn’t know.
@sable999 Meadow ended up getting waitlisted at Georgetown, so Carmela’s intimidation didn’t even work. Should have handed over at least $100,000 instead.
“I have my health, my family, my friends, a job, money and a roof over my head. I simply don’t care about actors bribing coaches.”
Maybe you don’t. For kids who work (or practise) their butts off to find that the playing field is even less level than they already thought it was, it stings.
So Singer plead guilty within the last half hour. I hope they throw the book at him. No leniency. He even photoshopped the head of some of the applicants onto the bodies of others to make them look like athletes!
How mortified would you be if you were a USC student right now whose mother has just been charged with getting you in this way?
@Momof3B Mercy me!
Hope they add UoChicago to that list of universities w/compromised admissions. Yes, “money talks”, as in significant contributions from influential connected alumni, despite its president’s virtuous pronouncements.
“How mortified would you be if you were a USC student right now whose mother has just been charged with getting you in this way?”
Hopefully mortified enough to withdraw from the university out of recognition that, even if they didn’t commit the crime, they benefited from it.
“^^Macy claims he was not involved – it was all his wife’s doing. Laughlin’s husband has an e-mail train showing that he knew/was involved.”
I can totally believe that. Ask my husband how much he was involved with college search and applications… I am sure he is not unique.
But, wouldn’t the coach for the sport at the school then wonder why the student didn’t follow through? My sons both played their sports at the college level. Once accepted, the coaches were ON it, contacting them before they had even graduated high school. How can you pretend your daughter plays water polo if she does not? SOMEONE must be in charge of following through! I don’t get it.