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College Admissions Scandal

Post by Pairofcats » March 12th, 2019, 2:57 pm

Is the College Admissions Scandal that resulted in the arrest of Felicity Huffman part of the same investigation that is plaguing KU and other Blue Blood basketball programs? The written stories use the same type of language about the laws which were broken. But schools are not being charged as they did not know about it. Wink, wink!

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Post by Zoltar » March 12th, 2019, 3:49 pm

This is the opposite of basketball specific. They had officials say non-athletes were athletes so they got favorable admission treatment. They may have cheated on admission tests as well. The arrests were made from the same wire tap/sting that is closing in on Cheatin' Bill and has LSU already.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/201 ... 139204002/
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Post by hilltopwildcat » March 12th, 2019, 3:56 pm

Who knows what kind of worms will crawl out of the can that has been opened?

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Post by wazucat » March 12th, 2019, 4:15 pm

Wake Forrest , Boston College, never realized that these were super prestigious schools, worthy of possible federal fraud charges to gain entry, Who Knew LOL

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Post by tmcats » March 12th, 2019, 4:54 pm

wazucat wrote:
March 12th, 2019, 4:15 pm
Wake Forrest , Boston College, never realized that these were super prestigious schools, worthy of possible federal fraud charges to gain entry, Who Knew LOL

both are private with tuition approaches $50,000/year.
Why is there something rather than nothing?

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Post by Zoltar » March 12th, 2019, 5:40 pm

Boston College thinks of themselves as an East Coast College that is better than Notre Dame
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Post by wazucat » March 12th, 2019, 5:52 pm

tmcats wrote:
March 12th, 2019, 4:54 pm
wazucat wrote:
March 12th, 2019, 4:15 pm
Wake Forrest , Boston College, never realized that these were super prestigious schools, worthy of possible federal fraud charges to gain entry, Who Knew LOL

both are private with tuition approaches $50,000/year.
so what's your point, if a school charges an exorbitant tuition then by definition it is prestigious ?? There are plenty of schools out there that have tuition that take one's breath away but don't pass the prestige giggle test IMO. To my way of thinking there are only a handful of prestigious schools , the Ivy's and maybe a dozen others, your universe of prestige may and apparently does extend to a larger sample.

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Post by wazucat » March 12th, 2019, 6:13 pm

Zoltar wrote:
March 12th, 2019, 5:40 pm
Boston College thinks of themselves as an East Coast College that is better than Notre Dame
I think of myself as an elderly Tom Cruise, :rofl:

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Post by Hypeman » March 12th, 2019, 10:57 pm

The world of admissions and scholarships is about as sleezy as basketball recruiting.

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Post by pulitzerdave » March 13th, 2019, 12:14 am

Hypeman wrote:
March 12th, 2019, 11:06 pm
However, is this worse than Pocahontas claiming to be Native American to get an Ivy League job?
Pocahontas WAS Native American but never had an Ivy League job because there was no Ivy League back in the early 1600's when she was associated with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.

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