I think there are probably very few kids who were not in on it, and I am not going to feel bad about these Richie Riches when this will likely have exactly zero effect on their future life prospects.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Thursday, 14 March 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link
xp: ding ding ding
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Thursday, 14 March 2019 19:01 (five years ago) link
I think they ate a ton of canned chili
thank you for this
― j., Thursday, 14 March 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
i used this story in a class today to talk about financial fraud, it was wild, students have all kinds of shit to say about it
― j., Thursday, 14 March 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
I do think the reporting around this has done a good job of painting the parents as the monsters over the students, with the glaring and well-deserved exception of Loughlin's daughter
― nathom, Thursday, 14 March 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
j., you can become an influencer on ig --"shit my students say"
― John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Thursday, 14 March 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link
Also had a girl in our shop. She was saying she just finished a year at Oxford. I asked which uni she attended in the US. She was sort of shy saying:"Oh Brown." I replied:"Don't be shy! You should be proud of it." She said she was trembling when she read ab the scam. Dunno if it was bec her parents bought her way into Brown. Lol.
― nathom, Thursday, 14 March 2019 20:56 (five years ago) link
or because she didn't know whether they did!!!
― j., Thursday, 14 March 2019 21:56 (five years ago) link
things that cause me to tremble: 1) pondering how they crucified my lord. 2) pondering how they laid him in a tomb. 3) pondering how admittance into Brown University isn't validation of one's life.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 14 March 2019 22:20 (five years ago) link
Apparently this investigation was kicked off by a finance dude who was under investigation by the SEC for pumping/dumping stock - when caught he flipped on the Yale woman's soccer coach who was taking bribes.https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-yale-dad-who-set-off-the-college-admissions-scandal-11552588402
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 15 March 2019 06:28 (five years ago) link
Harvard had $41 billion before the market crash. It would cost them almost nothing to keep paying workers. It should be socialized. https://t.co/Eh020XBbmi— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) March 22, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 March 2020 06:54 (four years ago) link