03-13-2019, 12:47 AM
Affirmative Action for the wealthy took a hit today.
Wealthy parents, actresses, coaches, among those charged in massive college cheating admission scandal, federal prosecutors say
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/12/us/college-admission-cheating-scheme/index.html
(CNN)In what is being called the largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted, wealthy parents, Hollywood actresses, coaches and college prep executives have been accused of carrying out a nationwide fraud to get students into prestigious universities, according to a federal indictment.
The scheme had two major pieces. In the first part, parents allegedly paid a college prep organization to take the test on behalf of students or to correct their answers. Second, the organization allegedly bribed college coaches to help admit the students into college as recruited athletes, regardless of their abilities, prosecutors said.
Federal court documents also allege that some defendants created fake athletic profiles for students to make them appear to be successful athletes.
Live Updates: Ringleader pleads guilty in $25 million nationwide college admissions cheating scam
https://abcnews.go.com/US/hollywood-actors-ceos-charged-nationwide-college-admissions-cheating/story?id=61627873
Those indicted in the investigation, dubbed "Operation Varsity Blues," allegedly paid bribes of up to $6.5 million to get their children into elite colleges, including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Southern California, federal prosecutors said.
"This case is about the widening corruption of elite college admissions through the steady application of wealth combined with fraud," Andrew Lelling, the U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, said at a news conference.
"There can be no separate college admissions system for the wealthy and, I'll add, there will not be a separate criminal justice system either," Lelling said.
Apparently some of these children of the wealthy were, with the help of coaches, able to pass themselves off as athletes too.
This brings Kushner's acceptance into Harvard back into the limelight.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/12/college-admissions-scam-kushner-harvard-acceptance-under-scrutiny/3147027002/
But will all this distract us from Harvard's "personal rating," supposed to deny worthy Asian students from coveted admission in favor of Black and Hispanic students?
https://admissionscase.harvard.edu/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/us/harvard-affirmative-action-asian-americans.html
Wealthy parents, actresses, coaches, among those charged in massive college cheating admission scandal, federal prosecutors say
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/12/us/college-admission-cheating-scheme/index.html
(CNN)In what is being called the largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted, wealthy parents, Hollywood actresses, coaches and college prep executives have been accused of carrying out a nationwide fraud to get students into prestigious universities, according to a federal indictment.
The scheme had two major pieces. In the first part, parents allegedly paid a college prep organization to take the test on behalf of students or to correct their answers. Second, the organization allegedly bribed college coaches to help admit the students into college as recruited athletes, regardless of their abilities, prosecutors said.
Federal court documents also allege that some defendants created fake athletic profiles for students to make them appear to be successful athletes.
Live Updates: Ringleader pleads guilty in $25 million nationwide college admissions cheating scam
https://abcnews.go.com/US/hollywood-actors-ceos-charged-nationwide-college-admissions-cheating/story?id=61627873
Those indicted in the investigation, dubbed "Operation Varsity Blues," allegedly paid bribes of up to $6.5 million to get their children into elite colleges, including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Southern California, federal prosecutors said.
"This case is about the widening corruption of elite college admissions through the steady application of wealth combined with fraud," Andrew Lelling, the U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, said at a news conference.
"There can be no separate college admissions system for the wealthy and, I'll add, there will not be a separate criminal justice system either," Lelling said.
Apparently some of these children of the wealthy were, with the help of coaches, able to pass themselves off as athletes too.
This brings Kushner's acceptance into Harvard back into the limelight.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/12/college-admissions-scam-kushner-harvard-acceptance-under-scrutiny/3147027002/
But will all this distract us from Harvard's "personal rating," supposed to deny worthy Asian students from coveted admission in favor of Black and Hispanic students?
https://admissionscase.harvard.edu/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/us/harvard-affirmative-action-asian-americans.html
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