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You should probably read what I wrote again. Your experience does not determine the experience everyone else has.

   

True. Not so many people these days have the discipline to work hard and sacrifice today to enjoy the rewards tomorrow.

Thus this topic exists.

   

Herein lies the problem. Make Post-Secondary about grades and not money, and we'll never see the need to have a post like this again.

   

"Joseph Montana
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Mr. Singer's company provided nothing more than minimal consulting services to our family, like so many other families, with the college application process. Fortunately our kids were able to pick from a number of schools to attend due to their hard work and their merit.
Thanks"

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This is far from over, pass the popcorn.

   

Oh, Joe, say it ain't so,

   

I wish we could say that, part of the investigation and arrests have been in part for cheating on admissions tests. ACT and the SAT's. I throw this in with grades type admissions. These test's are administered in regards to how much you already know/Learned upon leaving High School. Also we would soon hear about High School's and teachers being paid tons of money by rich parents to have their kids grades improved. High School teachers make squat so the temptation to take the money would be far greater IMO

   

It's one thing when endowments and charities are created to provide scholarships or donations to help minorities or talented athletes, many of whom couldn't otherwise afford it, attend higher education. These endowments are up front about what they're doing, and you have people freely choosing to spend their own money towards them. And a lot of the time these endowments hand out money based on merit to students who have to work hard to meet the qualifications and get their degrees.

What rankles everybody here and everywhere else is a bunch of entitled rich people breaking the system to send children who couldn't get admitted to a diploma mill to schools where they won't even take their alleged studies seriously.

   

Poor rich people! Why can't we understand their wish to be more equals than the others ?

   

Welcome to our new member from Quebec!

   

Quebec, Canada or "Quebec", Krasnogorsk Oblast?

   

How delightfully Orwellian of you, nice 1st post !

   

Bush was a war hero and a Yale graduate, so don't tell me that didn't have any influence on Dubya's acceptance, especially when Dubya's SAT scores were a very average 1206 (out of 1600).

http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html

If a 1206 on the SAT is "putting the work in", there are tens of thousands of kids who deserve to go to Yale.

And when Dubya went to Harvard, daddy was a rising star - not only was he a former Congressman, but he was the US Ambassador to the UN.

Sorry, the idea that Dubya, with his C average and lousy SAT scores, got into Yale and Harvard without ANY help are a little far-fetched. Was is fraudulent? Probably not, but I doubt he did it entirely on his own.

It just goes to show that the rich and powerful have been rigging the college acceptance game for a long time.

   

Quebec, Canada.

   

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