Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin In Hot Water

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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The only thing I don't really understand is how they got the transcripts submitted and approved. Sure you can lie on your application, but you would have to then fabricate the transcripts afterward

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Which transcripts? The high school grades weren't changed. All the dirty work got done on the college application.

[BDKiiing]

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Uncle Jesse couldn't keep Aunt Becky in line?

[kehlis]

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The only thing I don't really understand is how they got the transcripts submitted and approved. Sure you can lie on your application, but you would have to then fabricate the transcripts afterward

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I don't think transcripts were altered. From what I understand, the scam was getting people admitted under the false pretense they were athletes.

I know you work for a college and are very familiar with the process, my wife also works for admissions at Pitt and we were talking about it a bit. It's no surprise to anyone that athletes get a pass.

She actually mentioned today that her director today had talked to them and mentioned that he caught something fishy a couple years ago and changed the policy at the school so any exception to the approval process for an athlete with poor transcripts would require a written letter from the coach guaranteeing the student would be on the team.

[TheMatrix31]

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The hilarious thing is people thinking that college means a ****ing thing.

The entire thing itself is a scam.

If someone offered me hundreds of thousands of dollars to admit their worthless kid into my worthless school, I'd tell them "hey, go buy a house instead."

[DieHardYankee26]

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"We already have 4 houses and an application in for a private island. How about that admission though?"

[mgoblue]

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I don't think transcripts were altered. From what I understand, the scam was getting people admitted under the false pretense they were athletes.

I know you work for a college and are very familiar with the process, my wife also works for admissions at Pitt and we were talking about it a bit. It's no surprise to anyone that athletes get a pass.

She actually mentioned today that her director today had talked to them and mentioned that he caught something fishy a couple years ago and changed the policy at the school so any exception to the approval process for an athlete with poor transcripts would require a written letter from the coach guaranteeing the student would be on the team.

They also had someone on the inside for cheating on the SAT and ACT....but yeah, it was more letting them in under the guise they're athletes....

[Blzer]

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Shoot, I didn't realize this is as big as it was. Guess I should have explored it further.

The hilarious thing is people thinking that college means a ****ing thing.

The entire thing itself is a scam.

If someone offered me hundreds of thousands of dollars to admit their worthless kid into my worthless school, I'd tell them "hey, go buy a house instead."

This I agree with though, and this is one of the points that I was kind of implying when I said that I don't really think this is super detrimental. Things like colleges attended being a massive deciding factor for your future is rather unfortunate. It should be the education that you received, not where you received it.

[pietasterp]

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The title of this thread seems like it could have been pretty hot like 25 years ago...

[SmashMan]

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It should be the education that you received, not where you received it.

That wasn't the point being made, but yeah, this is more true than anything else.

[Majingir]

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Apparently the 15k paid was the exact same amount in a desperate housewives episode dealing with same issue 15 years ago.


Why even bother going to school if you have that much money and cant get in on own merits? Isnt a big part of going to college to get a degree to help get a job so you can make money?

Don't know how legit this one is, but I remember in college one of my professors said you could get "authentic looking degrees" in the black market(I think price was in low 5 figure range). If the employer emails or calls the school to check, they'll know you lied. If they just look at the authentic looking degree, they'll believe its legit. That sounds alot easier than what apparently happened here.

[SmashMan]

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That sounds alot easier than what apparently happened here.

There are quite a few ways people with money "help" their kids get into colleges. What happened here just seems needlessly complicated compared to what we usually hear about these things.

[JayBee74]

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Why even bother going to school if you have that much money and cant get in on own merits? Isnt a big part of going to college to get a degree to help get a job so you can make money?

I think in this case it's more about what the rich parents wanted and especially in the case of Huffman and Loughlin all about image-the scam's purpose was probably nothing more than being able to brag to your friends about how smart your kids are.

[Jr.]

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Which transcripts? The high school grades weren't changed. All the dirty work got done on the college application.

I don't think transcripts were altered. From what I understand, the scam was getting people admitted under the false pretense they were athletes.

I know you work for a college and are very familiar with the process, my wife also works for admissions at Pitt and we were talking about it a bit. It's no surprise to anyone that athletes get a pass.

She actually mentioned today that her director today had talked to them and mentioned that he caught something fishy a couple years ago and changed the policy at the school so any exception to the approval process for an athlete with poor transcripts would require a written letter from the coach guaranteeing the student would be on the team.

Maybe I just misinterpreted the wording but this sounds like making up classes one student took (I can't copy and paste):

In contrast to her earlier application [….] the second application falsely stated that she rowed crew [….], and was taking classes at a number of schools, including Santa Monica College, Rio Salado College, and The University of Colorado at Boulder

I guess in the grand scheme it doesn't really matter. That just caught my eye

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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Maybe I just misinterpreted the wording but this sounds like making up classes one student took (I can't copy and paste):



I guess in the grand scheme it doesn't really matter. That just caught my eye

Gotcha. Yeah, I don't think the high schools were involved at all. It was the college applications/test scores.

My thing is, some of these kids need to be prosecuted too. Some of them posed for fake pictures and played "dumb" so they could get labeled with a learning disability to be able to take the SAT/ACT 1:1 with a fixer. How easy is it to fake a learning disability? Kinda surprised no doctors have been indicted. One of them bragged about cheating the system.

If they knew, they should get expelled from school at the very least. If they have already graduated, the school should make that information public knowledge.

Dude "helped" 750+ families, some were legit. No telling how many of those were the cheating method.

[Jr.]

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Gotcha. Yeah, I don't think the high schools were involved at all. It was the college applications/test scores.

My thing is, some of these kids need to be prosecuted too. Some of them posed for fake pictures and played "dumb" so they could get labeled with a learning disability to be able to take the SAT/ACT 1:1 with a fixer. How easy is it to fake a learning disability? Kinda surprised no doctors have been indicted. One of them bragged about cheating the system.

If they knew, they should get expelled from school at the very least. If they have already graduated, the school should make that information public knowledge.

Dude "helped" 750+ families, some were legit. No telling how many of those were the cheating method.

Yeah I wonder how many of the kids knew what was going on. There are quite a few of the cases where the parents didn't want the kids to know what was going on. So I wonder if that was more common, or if it was more common that the kids knew?