Bribery in College Admissions

it looks like they just nabbed one cell of this. there are probably dozens of identical operations all across the country. maybe more.

 

What I don’t get is for that kind of money can’t you get your kid into usc the normal way?

 

Ivy league schools probably nervous right now.

 

hell, you could put those millions in a trust and let your kid go wherever. he would come out ahead.

 

You're buying prestige. That's one of the biggest issues with the educational bubble that's about to happen

 

about to? we are clearly there.

 

Arrogance and stupidity

 

I sure do hope my kids are smart. They aint getting in on a ball scholarship with their ancestry, that's for sure.

 

they'll pretend to be the victims, rather than the accomplices.

 

We're close but we're not there yet.

 

that's the ridiculous thing. those kids are already set up for life. usc has always taken dumb rich donor kids. those kids must have awful grades for them to have to go that route.

 

My oldest (about to turn 14) is looking at this school in Florida called Full Sail University. They have a big game designer program there, and he is super excited about it.

After some research, though, I have found out they are a for-profit university and my spidey sense started tingling. Sure enough, tons of people complaining about how they almost force you to take loans, etc. It is the first time he has, on his own, started researching and looking at something in his life, and I don't want to squash it, but damn if it didn't have to be some rip-off school.

 

i like their beer

 

That's why I don't understand Colleges like Tennessee hell bent on being a top 20 school. You're a land grant university. Offer a solid education at price that the people in your state need, instead of chasing prestige.

 

Because the university leaders have to make sure their ego can hold up to their peers.

When you realize that most college admin are either too lazy to grow up and want to be around college kids or just want to feed their own ego, it makes understanding it a lot better.

 

there's a middle ground. and the metrics to be a top school are a lot of BS that has nothing to do with quality of education.

 

I remember when UT was in the top 10 Party Schools. Our football program was pretty good then, too.

 

as soon as I saw the name I muttered "hell no." tell him to research salaries and degrees of people in the industry who he would like to emulate.

he's better off pursuing programming and having a practical skill set than a specialized game degree. it's a scam.

 

Trust me I have already talked to him about it. I had to be tactful and not just come out and say "NO", because he was genuinely interested in it and I didn't want to completely cause him to recoil.

I hope I have planted the seed, however.