MonkeyKnifeFighter said:
I can't imagine someone smart enough to have that much money being stupid enough to pay $400k to get your kid admitted to a particular college.
MonkeyKnifeFighter said:
I can't imagine someone smart enough to have that much money being stupid enough to pay $400k to get your kid admitted to a particular college.
what's crazy to me is that they went with the direct bribe route.MonkeyKnifeFighter said:
I can't imagine someone smart enough to have that much money being stupid enough to pay $400k to get your kid admitted to a particular college.
LOLMonkeyKnifeFighter said:
I can't imagine someone smart enough to have that much money being stupid enough to pay $400k to get your kid admitted to a particular college.
maybe they already tried that. makes you wonder just how dumb laughlins daughters areQuote:
If you have that much money, I assume getting your kid admitted is as easy as making the right donations, showing up at the right galas/dinners, glad handing the right people, and voila! Your questionable/borderline kid is going to Yale
I actually know 2 prominent A&M building kids who had to go through that summer school pre-admission provisional program. Would have expected them to have "auto-admit, any major you want" stars on their applications.aTm2004 said:MonkeyKnifeFighter said:
I can't imagine someone smart enough to have that much money being stupid enough to pay $400k to get your kid admitted to a particular college.
Do you think the kids/grandkids of people who's name is in a building don't get preference?
Walt Luddiger said:
so they are like....really dumb
Those kinds of admissions started coming under a lot of scrutiny by the 90's (if not sooner).Quote:
I actually know 2 prominent A&M building kids who had to go through that summer school pre-admission provisional program. Would have expected them to have "auto-admit, any major you want" stars on their applications.
EDIT: Not to say they didn't have preferential treatment even getting that option.
The pushback isn't a shock, but when push comes to shove, money is money. The detente they probably reached was that the cash will keep flowing and you give our kids a summer to prove themselves.Social Media Influencer said:Those kinds of admissions started coming under a lot of scrutiny by the 90's (if not sooner).Quote:
I actually know 2 prominent A&M building kids who had to go through that summer school pre-admission provisional program. Would have expected them to have "auto-admit, any major you want" stars on their applications.
EDIT: Not to say they didn't have preferential treatment even getting that option.
Cactus Jack said:
She's being charged with mail fraud. Up to 5 years.
Her daughter is hot too. Turns out neither of them mention this turn of events on Instagram.queso1 said:
Aunt Becky is one of the most beautiful women to have ever lived.
Used a bad source - the mail fraud is up to 20 years but no one in this case will come close to that. The guidelines for her situation will likely call for 0-6 months.Cactus Jack said:
She's being charged with mail fraud. Up to 5 years.
She got off light with that charge -- some of the worst offenders are being charged with racketeering, which can be up to 20 years.
I know somebody who's grandpa has his name on a building at Baylor, who started and Baylor and transferred to A&M because Baylor sucks.Celee04 said:I actually know 2 prominent A&M building kids who had to go through that summer school pre-admission provisional program. Would have expected them to have "auto-admit, any major you want" stars on their applications.aTm2004 said:MonkeyKnifeFighter said:
I can't imagine someone smart enough to have that much money being stupid enough to pay $400k to get your kid admitted to a particular college.
Do you think the kids/grandkids of people who's name is in a building don't get preference?
EDIT: Not to say they didn't have preferential treatment even getting that option.
P.C. Principal said:
How stupid can you be Aunt Becky? Use that money to pay for an amazing SAT tutor and encourage your kid to actually work for it.
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Numerous schools were targeted, including Georgetown University, Yale University, Stanford University, the University of Texas, the University of Southern California and UCLA, among others.
[a joke] The rest of Texags would probably speak up when they pored through the records of high school kids that just signed to play women's lacrosse, but had never posted pictures of themselves playing women's lacrosse, and who did not go to a high school where women's lacrosse was played, and also they were super-rich and 18-year-old boys.infinity ag said:Quote:
Numerous schools were targeted, including Georgetown University, Yale University, Stanford University, the University of Texas, the University of Southern California and UCLA, among others.
So we don't seem to be targeted. So does that mean that we are not good enough?
Or are we grouped in "among others"
The talk I remember hearing was that administrators and faculty believed - rightly or wrongly - that we had a reputation as a legacy school, which was hurting the academic reputation. This was the Vision 2020 era. I was neither a legacy nor a rich kid, but the impression I got from friends who did check both boxes was that the old men would try to work around it by swapping very strong recommendations for the kids.Quote:
The pushback isn't a shock, but when push comes to shove, money is money. The detente they probably reached was that the cash will keep flowing and you give our kids a summer to prove themselves.