I guess some parents really DO want their kids to go to college

[Conor Dary]

The pathologies of the winner-take-all society

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.a5b4b4bfbb2c

[thedoorknobbroke]

I wouldn't call it corruption since legacy admissions are part of their stated policy, not something done under the table.

right, this was years ago..morally corrupt but not under the table or illegal

[jeremyp]

I remember being in a bar in Vermont and some local drunk guy came up to me and some of my fellow collegians (from a nearby Ivy League College) and said: "You kids think because you go to that College that you're smarter than us." I said: "No, We go to that College because our Dads are richer than your dads." End of conversation.

[Conor Dary]

Meanwhile...

William H. Macy is in deep shit....


Huffman and Macy also seem to have abused the disability accommodations provisions of the SAT to facilitate their cheating—getting their daughter extra time on the test, and using that as a pretext to put in place the crooked proctor who fixed the test scores.


https://mobile.twitter.com/studentac...27039732449280

[Atticus]

Felicity Huffman?! Say it ain't so!

The Stanford Sailing coach! Say THAT ain't so!

https://news.stanford.edu/2019/03/12...ord-statement/

[user4]

Friends, if your kid is a lazy slacker pot smoking loser just like you then you should give them a top 20 college degree to make up for it. It is money well spent.

[Conor Dary]

Another thing that jumped out at me. The parents involved are quite wealthy, but not the *super* rich. They can’t just write a $15 million check to pay a legal bribe to get their kids in. They are products of what I call “fractal inequality”

https://mobile.twitter.com/chrislhay...77214559637511

[gm]

$100,000 bribe to the Texas men's tennis coach, it is alleged.

[guru]

I spoke too soon when I said there are no track connections(though it sounds like USC coaches were not involved)

https://twitter.com/RedditCFB/status...14482401460226

[Conor Dary]

"I applied to UCSD for college where my dad was a professor and asked him to put in a word for me. He did, and I still got rejected and he goes “you’ve learned a valuable lesson. Never ask someone to put in a good word for you if everyone thinks that person is an asshole.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/justin_ha...34198335496193

[user4]

..The parents involved .. but not the *super* rich. They can’t just write a $15 million check to pay a legal bribe to get their kids in. They are products of what I call “fractal inequality”

Yeah, I was really heart broken for them too... pulled on all ends, unable to find the time to educate their children or instill in them a love of learning they are driven by forces beyond themselves to fraud and bribery to get their pot smoking slacker into USC.


A very early and practical distribution. No need to rename anything..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution


My own sentiment is that all of these parents should be able to get their kids into a university that is acceptable to them. And the price tag should be appropriately high. The market should determine these things. For every dolt son of Felicity Hoofmind that pays a premium the university can offer a scholarship to the brainy son of a laborer. Free and fair markets work.

[Conor Dary]

I spoke too soon when I said there are no track connections(though it sounds like USC coaches were not involved)

https://twitter.com/RedditCFB/status...14482401460226

Oh dear...

[Merner521]

I spoke too soon when I said there are no track connections(though it sounds like USC coaches were not involved)

https://twitter.com/RedditCFB/status...14482401460226

The kid should have just gone with it! show up to practice and learn to jump

Not sure if i'll be in a financial position to pull off a scam/fraud like this 14 years from now, but if my first born son doesn't go into pole vault, I may just have to try this.

Just kidding...probably

[Atticus]

Oh dear...

Oh dear is right. The standards are at 14' - hardly elite - and the technique is far from elite.

[Conor Dary]

This story has all sorts of interesting connections....like this...

https://mobile.twitter.com/jbenton/s...08862126448640