Another parent in the scandal sentenced:
The fine ($95,000) should have been at least as big as the bribe he paid ($250,000).
A five-month timeout seems a just punishment.
Today CNN posted a copy of daughter Olivia’s student profile form. She claimed to be a coxwain. Not sure where the info on page two was cribbed from, but she spelled row “wrow” on page one.
Last week, Douglas Hodge, former CEO of Pimco (huge investment management firm), was sentenced (paywall warning) to nine months in prison. He spent $850,000 in bribes to get four of his children into Georgetown and USC (two children into each school).
I’ve seen some videos.
Is a coxswain what the college girls are calling it now?
Not that I’m defending this family of scumbags, but wrow = women’s rowing.
From her profile, she lists her skills as “awareness, organization, direction and steering” but he mother could have used some of those to steer clear of the problems.
“Stroke…stroke…stroke…”
No need for that. It’s the usual name for that role in rowing, for men or women.
And also an old joke.
I’m still amazed they broke the law, risked criminal indictment, and spent tens of thousands of dollars to get into second-tier schools like U.S.C., Wake Forest, and Georgetown. If you’re going to cheat, why aim so low?
It’s about being realistic and self-aware of your own limitations. They knew they weren’t cut out for ivy league.
Delicious irony
Note that Stanford and Yale both had students admitted through this scheme. The idea wasn’t to get your kids into schools that they were academically unqualified for, it was to get them from the huge pile of applicants who were perfectly acceptable but otherwise unremarkable into the admitted pile. USC has an admission rate of 16%, Georgetown 15%, Wake Forest 27%, so unless you were wildly overqualified, there’s no guarantee you’d get into any of them.
From wiki,
The students weren’t qualified under the normal process, but as “elite athletes” they could have special consideration. In other cases, they arranged for cheating on the entrance exams.
Well, the wiki page is misstating what’s actually in the affidavit it links to:
“in place of more qualified applicants” does not mean that the students were unqualified. As was discussed earlier in this thread and in the media at the time, coaches get a certain number of slots to accept applicants for a sport, as long as they otherwise meet the other minimum admissions requirement. So the rowing coach at USC can’t accept a D- student with 900 SATs, but can accept a B+ student with 1300s, who would otherwise be competing with a few thousand other B+/1300 SAT students for a few hundred slots.
ETA: You’re asbsolutely right about having ringers take the SATs for kids however.
To be fair, rowers do tend to have thick sculls.
Bump…
Loughlin wore white for the proceedings and addressed the court, admitting, “I made an awful decision. I went along with a plan to give my daughters an unfair advantage in the college admissions process. In doing so, I ignored my intuition and allowed myself to be swayed from my moral compass.”
She got off easy.