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  On 3/13/2019 at 2:22 PM, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

The guy that was the hub for all this is on a wire tap saying he helped 800 kids this way.  Don't know if that's a lie but we are only looking at 30 or so currently targeted.  So we might be just at the very very beginning.

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So.....just the tip?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of the iceberg?

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  On 3/14/2019 at 3:10 AM, TwiceHorn said:

There was a chick (loosely defined), in our era that rode her bike to ETC from God knows where, wearing spandex and a helmet and shoes, the whole schmear and did not have a spandex worthy bod.  She would come in with her spandexed fat rolls heaving and sweaty. Apparently, she would go in that ladies room next to the Taylor Lounge and give herself sponge baths using paper towels at the sink.  The cool/semi-hot gals had nothing good to say about her or her hygiene habits.

The freshman calculus classes held in ETC made the scenery around ME quite acceptable at times.

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Wait, your’re a lawyer. What were you doing at ETC?

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  On 3/14/2019 at 1:07 AM, Texas_Rocks said:

Since none of these wealthy parents will actually be incarcerated it would be awesome if they get caught paying stand-ins to do the community service that they MIGHT get slapped with.

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If Lori winds up with a felony, she’ll need to bribe somebody in Canada’s border patrol to let her in.  They don’t let people in with recent records.  

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  On 3/14/2019 at 1:56 PM, jimmyjazz said:

How is this a $1M bond case for Aunt Becky?  That seems kinda steep.

 

 

 

 

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Because Mossimo is Italian, and they are wealthy, flight risk.

But, federal bail tends to make the least sense of a nonsensical practice.

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  On 3/14/2019 at 2:51 PM, jimmyjazz said:

If they're that wealthy, $1M isn't gonna stop them.  They won't flee unless they have their daughters in tow, regardless.

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They probably wrote that into their initial calculations for the bribe.

How much are we willing to pay to get into USC?

I'd say $1,015,000.

Well that means only $15k for the first installment so we can have a mill to jump the eventual bail.

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Post stealing the Onion's material.  SIAP.

Son defends parents caught in college admissions scandal while smoking blunt

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Maybe this is why Gregory and Marcia Abbott allegedly bought their daughter’s way into college.

Their “rapper” son, Malcolm, popped out of the family’s Fifth Avenue building to smoke a giant blunt — while defending his parents and bragging about his latest CD.

“They’re blowing this whole thing out of proportion,” said Malcolm Abbott outside the home that overlooks the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “I believe everyone has a right to go to college, man.”

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https://nypost.com/2019/03/13/son-defends-parents-caught-in-college-admissions-scandal-while-smoking-blunt/

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  On 3/14/2019 at 2:56 PM, Degenerate Gardner said:

Post stealing the Onion's material.  SIAP.

Son defends parents caught in college admissions scandal while smoking blunt

malcolm-abbott-caught-smoking-blunt-defe

Maybe this is why Gregory and Marcia Abbott allegedly bought their daughter’s way into college.

Their “rapper” son, Malcolm, popped out of the family’s Fifth Avenue building to smoke a giant blunt — while defending his parents and bragging about his latest CD.

“They’re blowing this whole thing out of proportion,” said Malcolm Abbott outside the home that overlooks the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “I believe everyone has a right to go to college, man.”

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https://nypost.com/2019/03/13/son-defends-parents-caught-in-college-admissions-scandal-while-smoking-blunt/

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That's the worst blunt I've ever seen. If I saw that as an admissions officer I would just assume that kid is a fucking moron. 

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  On 3/14/2019 at 1:51 AM, BurntEyes said:

Where I've seen it, in business, is the good old boy side that gets a good number of folks into middle management.

One of two things happens.

A) They are really good and move up

B) They aren't and get shuffled around from company to company or to different positions in the company remaining in middle management

Venture Capital, based on my somewhat limited experience, full of trust fund babies.

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Institutional VC may have trust fund kids involved but all the people I deal with are really really smart and motivated.  Guy that drops $150k into a seed round and claims to be a VC is not....he's a jerkoff.

 

Anyhow, all these people involved should go to jail.  

Posted
  On 3/13/2019 at 11:30 PM, pacman said:

 

Fuck your legends of ut engineering, try the ut math department where your classes might as well be taught in a foreign language. You basically learn everything all by yourself 

 

 

This is being passed around on Facebook 

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If this guy's such a great writer, why hasn't he learned about paragraphs, yet?

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Speaking of The Onion being on point...

Tennis Instructor Mentoring Young Player Sees Potential In Parents’ Income

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LOCK HAVEN, PA—Calling him the most promising recruit he’s seen in a decade of coaching, tennis instructor Thomas Petrov confirmed Thursday that he sees real potential in his student Aiden McDavid’s family income. “From his expensive Babolat racket to the brand-new Nikes, I can tell this kid’s parents have everything I’m looking for,” said Petrov, noting that he saw promise in Aiden the moment his parents dropped him off at practice in a brand-new Mercedes Benz sedan. “I’ve mentored a lot of kids throughout the years, and I can tell that Aiden’s special—his parents aren’t just some lawyers or mid-level executives, they’re running a hedge fund. Some kids show hints of potential, but these people are rocking Cartier watches and vacationing in Italy. They’re the real deal.” At press time, Petrov convinced Aiden’s parents that he could be something really special after watching the teen pack up his supplies in an $1,200 Burberry duffel bag.

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  On 3/14/2019 at 12:34 AM, Moby Ric said:

I don't do interviews, I own the company.  And if I interview someone to work for me I could care less what their GPA in college was.  If you graduated then you did good enough.

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Yeah, generally when I see that on a job application, I know it's not going to be a great fit.

I mean, my GPA was fine. But graduate school was two decades ago. If my GPA is even a consideration at this point... what the hell are you even doing? The only reason my education should be under consideration at this point is if I lied about it. Which I don't. Because I don't fucking need to. If you care, you're interested in who I was 20 years ago, not what I do today. I mean... back then, Windows 95 experience was a resume bullet point, ya dig?

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  On 3/14/2019 at 3:04 PM, ztejas said:

That's the worst blunt I've ever seen. If I saw that as an admissions officer I would just assume that kid is a fucking moron. 

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-What kind of cigarette is that?

-Joint.

-Joint?  They don't make 'em very good.

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Another lawsuit:

https://www.statesman.com/news/20190314/ut-named-in-class-action-suit-against-schools-in-college-cheating-scandal

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UT named in class-action suit against schools in college cheating scandal

By Mary Huber 

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Two women are suing eight elite universities, including the University of Texas, claiming that the schools have a “rigged” admissions process that allowed unqualified students to be accepted ahead of worthy candidates who paid admissions fees thinking they had a fair chance to be accepted.

The class-action lawsuit that was filed Wednesday in federal court in California is the latest in a scandal involving celebrities and other wealthy parents who federal authorities say sought to have their children admitted into universities by bribing athletic coaches and having other people take tests for their children.

UT Tennis Coach Michael Center was one of the coaches charged with fraud as part of the scheme, after authorities say he accepted a $100,000 bribe to get a student into the university as a tennis recruit when the student did not play competitive tennis.

The university announced Wednesday it had fired Center, and officials have said the bribery scheme was an isolated incident that involved a single coach and no other university employee or officer.

However, Erica Olsen and Kalea Woods, both students at Stanford University, are now suing UT and others, saying they applied to some of the named schools and paid admissions fees, thinking they were getting a “fair admissions consideration process,” according to the suit. Instead, the process was “rigged by fraud” and schools allowed unqualified students to take slots that could have gone to others, the suit says.

“Each of the universities were negligent in failing to maintain adequate protocols and security measures in place to guarantee the sanctity of the college admissions process, and to ensure that their own employees were not engaged in these type of bribery schemes,” the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit also names The Edge College & Career Network and The Key Worldwide Foundation, the for-profit college counseling company and the non-profit charity owned by William “Rick” Singer, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to money laundering, racketeering and other charges in connection with the scheme alleged by authorities.

Investigators’ charging documents allege that Singer made about $25 million from 2011 to 2018 to bribe college coaches and create fake athletic profiles, some with staged photographs. In exchange, coaches would designate the clients’ children as recruited athletes, thereby helping them gain easier admission. College athletic entrance requirements are typically lower than those for regular students.

The lawsuit says that the UT System has specifically denounced the influence of money in its admissions process, saying that selective schools often face “the suspicion of a double standard that favors well-connected students.”

“Ensuring that fair and transparent admissions processes exist across the UT System is necessary to maintain public trust,” the university has stated. “Recruitment and admissions policies that are disclosed to the public and are consistent with stated university goals garners public trust that student admissions are centered on merit.”

The women also say in the lawsuit that their degrees from Stanford University are not worth as much now, because they come from a school involved in the scandal and that employers may now question whether they were admitted on their own merits. They are asking to be reimbursed for admissions fees and other damages.

The suit was filed in California, where many of the named universities are located. It also claims that California is the proper jurisdiction for a claim against UT because the university has solicited students residing in California, accepted money, including application fees, from California residents and has recruited athletes residing in California.

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  On 3/13/2019 at 9:50 PM, TwiceHorn said:

Austin Gleeson?  I had him for PHY303L and wanted to drop it because of the fear and loathing from 303K but hell week was the first week of class second semester.  I went to Dean Margaret Baker on Monday (seventh day of classes) and almost cried to try to get out of it.  No dice.  She stopped short of calling me a pussy, but not by much.

I'm glad I stayed with it, Gleeson was/is one of the great profs at UT.  He started the Physics Circus and that's him in 2017;

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Gleeson was the best prof I ever had at UT.  I was an EE major in the mid 80s...

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$500B is because you have to start somewhere. I don’t know what the barrier to entry is for Fortune 500 Board’s/C-Suite, but I imagine if you look at the numbers they aren’t well represented by public land grant degrees.

If this was going on for 5-10 years, a couple hundred kids with stellar HS resumes and test scores can’t get into Prestige U and have to go to Public Ivy or worse...

Career earnings of C-Suite vs normal middle manager.
Career earnings of drone in sector 7G vs normal middle manager. That shit adds up quickly.

The reason people were outlaying hundreds of thousands of dollars is because it was worth it as an “investment” in their kids future.

Side note: I’ve heard a compelling argument that we’ve done this to ourselves. GenX is told “you have to go to college”. With all those candidates a degree from Lamar or Abilene Christian isn’t good enough for Fortune 500 anymore. They go on to work at smaller business. Missing generation and millennials go to college, and there is no room at the inn. Elite schools increase tuition, public ivies increase tuition...”degree prestige” becomes larger barrier to entry for best jobs. Price goes up more. People have NW Public St Tech, BS Poli-Sci degree with 4.0 GPA that the regional plumbing supply distributer won’t accept for entry inside sales gig and poor plebe owes $100k @ 8.5%.

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Posted
  On 3/14/2019 at 2:24 AM, Beau Vine said:

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What about negative caring smart guy?

 

  On 3/14/2019 at 4:14 PM, The University said:

physics circus had been around for a long time before him. rory coker comes to mind. crazy but awesome dude.

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  On 3/14/2019 at 4:24 PM, TwiceHorn said:

Coker was another founder, to my understanding.  I first saw it in 1983 with Coker and Gleeson. 

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I went to the Physics Circus in HS, probably around 83 or so. I later had Coker for physics. Coker was kind of a tyrannical lunatic. Kicked people out of lecture if they were reading a paper. When he said HW was due before class, he wouldn't accept it after the bell rang.

But physics was a cake walk in the park compared to organic chemistry, imo.

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  On 3/14/2019 at 6:39 PM, High Plains Drifter said:

was kind of a tyrannical lunatic. Kicked people out of lecture if they were reading a paper. When he said HW was due before class, he wouldn't accept it after the bell rang.

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those guys were always annoying. there was an upper div economics professor like that in the early 2000s.  young, probably early 40s.  forget his name. he knew his stuff and the classes were pretty interesting, but he was oddly strict about homework before the bell or picking up handouts before the bell.  even 1 second late and you're not getting a handout, hope you have a friend in the class.

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  On 3/14/2019 at 6:16 PM, Machinator said:

 

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Wonder if they'll ever respond about the admissions lady that was grading essays wrong this past fall.  She reversed the scoring so that bad essays had high scores and good ones did note.  Kids below 20% got accepted while kids in the top 5% received rejections.

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