FBI Alleges Wealthy Parents Bribed Colleges

[Perfectson]

The curriculum at Ivy League isn't necessarily harder or more difficult , I think people misundertand what college is for and what success is measured. You can succeed going to a bum college, but Ivy leagues for the most part is networking opportunities that obviously cns turn into successful positions.

There's a lot of fake outrage, people cheat all the time when it comes to education

Hand down expulsions and fines and the egregious offenders should get house arrest or community service and keep it moving

 

[Jhoon]

yo whaaaaaat lol



Pay WELL OVER THE VALUE OF ADMISSION TO GET YOUR KIDS INTO COLLEGE BREHS

They pay it because the actual cost of the college is less than the prestige it provides.

What’s messed up is I told my daughter she would get into Stanford via female ice hockey. A black woman playing hockey? I hope they don’t hold this story against us.

 

[mastermind]

That kind of bail isn't really cash bail, she is an extremely low flight risk, has extensive ties to the community, and will face the charges in court, 100%, rather than run. She also won't likely re offend on pre trial release, and if they do, they will seize her house. Yes, it is extremely unfair, but that is based on an evaluation of flight risk and assets. Very common in white collar cases, esp. celebrities. She likely pleads out to a probation or deferred prosecution agreement.

What kind of flight risk is the 16 year old?

 

[ORDER_66]

$10 MILLION : ENTRY LEVEL... damn they was fleecing these Cacs trying to get in using their privilege and money!!!

FOH... Im glad this shyt is happening... These schools are fraudulent man.. all that pricey education doesn't mean shyt when Cacs just buy their way in...

 

[Ol’Otis]

Damn wy wimen just say culturally bias

Furious Styles told us this back in ‘91

 

[Jhoon]

$10 MILLION : ENTRY LEVEL... damn they was fleecing these Cacs trying to get in using their privilege and money!!!

FOH... Im glad this shyt is happening... These schools are fraudulent man.. all that pricey education doesn't mean shyt when Cacs just buy their way in...

Fleecing is the wrong term and you are looking at this incorrectly.

The education itself is not pricey. It is pricey for many reasons — none of them based solely on academics. You can play golf at the public course or you can be a member at Agusta. However, some may argue that golf itself is a past time of the elite. Education started out as an elite-only past time. Not everyone had the resources to sit down and learn.

 

[re'up]

What kind of flight risk is the 16 year old?

I am not going to blindly defend remanding a 16 year old on a 300k bail, what are the details of that case?

 

[ORDER_66]

Fleecing is the wrong term and you are looking at this incorrectly.

The education itself is not pricey. It is pricey for many reasons — none of them based solely on academics. You can play golf at the public course or you can be a member at Agusta. However, some may argue that golf itself is a past time of the elite. Education started out as an elite-only past time. Not everyone had the resources to sit down and learn.

WE STILL DONT HAVE THE RESOURCES TO GET IN THESE SCHOOLS LIKE THESE CACS DO IF THEY PAYING 10 MILLION...

Poor black kid smart ASF probably wants to get into that school but can't because he don't have the money for tuition... Meanwhile Becky paid millions for her daughter to get to the front of the line and is unqualified to even be there... You gotta question every school with elite cacs running rampant... This gets deeper...

 

[sjankis630]

Regarding the earlier Yale cost that was just tuition. Room and board is another 16,000 and then add books, fees etc it could easily top 70k.

 

[Jhoon]

WE STILL DONT HAVE THE RESOURCES TO GET IN THESE SCHOOLS LIKE THESE CACS DO IF THEY PAYING 10 MILLION...

Poor black kid smart ASF probably wants to get into that school but can't because he don't have the money for tuition... Meanwhile Becky paid millions for her daughter to get to the front of the line and is unqualified to even be there... You gotta question every school with elite cacs running rampant... This gets deeper...

I am community college graduate. I do not see the value in a Harvard/Yale. While I understand their legacy, in my opinion, they pale in comparison to MIT and Stanford. They old money schools are humanity studies schools.

Depending on the child and their professional aspirations for them to yearn for an old ivy school may be a detriment.

 

[BoBurnz]

Do backflips and pay half a million dollars to get into USC and Georgetown, brehs.

Half a million dollars...for your kid to waste even more of your money doing shytty coke in business frats and being a congressional page or some shyt, where said kid will proceed to lick some senator's a$$hole in the hope that it will actually get them somewhere in life.

As someone who makes a living teaching these types of kids...this is legitimately the most pathetic shyt I've seen in a LONG time (also in no way surprising...I know more than a few people who got bribed by trustees to *fix* their kid's grades).

Half a million dollars for your apathetic, recalcitrant a$$hole kid to do exactly what they would have done without a college degree, because status or something.

Socialism or Barbarism for real, people.

We get closer to the tipping point by the day at this point. In many ways Trumps brazen attitudes to destroy the norms and the veils we put up to obfuscate the way we all knew but elected to ignore how the system functions was actually a net positive if it leads to the polar shift that needs to happen.

 

[Insensitive]

Reminds me of the time I told an engineer they should consider returning to
school for a master's degree at a lesser known state school.

The look of disgust on their face at the idea of attending a school without a potent
brand name is hilarious in retrospect.


Status is a powerful thing and people will do a lot to get a bit of it, including sending their
kids to schools with a strong name especially if it means their children will graduate
without facing the fear of debt, having classmates whose parents are also rich and powerful
and developing connections which will ensure their success past the graduation date.


This reminds me of those career fields filled with nepotism (like my own....) where asshats get
handed the chance to get a sweet gig simply because of who they know, who their fathers know,
or who their mothers slept with. Giving them a substantial leg up over the average joe just shooting their
shot trying to get in.

I won't lie, I want the kids that I'll eventually have to succeed but I DO NOT want cheat, lie, scam etc.
them to success. Whole story is legitimately disgusting but it also mirrors my own experiences
especially with young, ignorant, racist white men being paid handsomely because their
grandpa or uncle or father worked at a corporation for 30 years and they could walk into a job
upon graduating highschool or college.

 

[BoBurnz]

I remember talking to an English professor, for a private university that was 40k a semester. And i was thinking damn these kids must be smart for them to make this kind of investment in school. He like nah, a lot of them come from money bags, are unmotivated, and have lackluster writing skills. It's a struggle just to get them to do the basics and have them take school seriously.

My younger brother is an English adjunct at a fairly prestigious school and he's shown me some of the shyt his creative writing students (he whites out the names) turn in and it's fukking laughable how bad some of it is. They'd fail a 9th grade book report.

 

[Json]

We get closer to the tipping point by the day at this point. In many ways Trumps brazen attitudes to destroy the norms and the veils we put up to obfuscate the way we all knew but elected to ignore how the system functions was actually a net positive if it leads to the polar shift that needs to happen.

It does feel like when the tide was lifting most everybody during the late 90s this erosion was being ignored but now that the recession has exposed how badly certain people were to stay afloat while letting everyone not like them drown.

 

[Serious]