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Another potential bribery case, is buying your coach's house okay?

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Re: Another potential bribery case, is buying your coach's house okay?

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Another potential bribe to get someone into a prestigious school. This one is interesting because the student seems well qualified and had a brother already at Harvard. The father bought his son's potential future fencing coach's house for about $350k over its estimated value, and then sold it a year later for a loss of around that much money.

I didn't go to a prestigious school; indeed they paid me to go there! (because I had a scholarship). This is years later, should these probably innocent kids lose their degree? Your life is ruined if that happens. I didn't get into Harvard but somehow I managed to work at the FANGs, lead teams, get advanced degrees etc.

Re: Another potential bribery case, is buying your coach's house okay?

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Another potential bribe to get someone into a prestigious school. This one is interesting because the student seems well qualified and had a brother already at Harvard. The father bought his son's potential future fencing coach's house for about $350k over its estimated value, and then sold it a year later for a loss of around that much money. I didn't go to a prestigious school; indeed they paid me to go there! (bec…

Yeah. If he was buying anything it was favorable treatment from the coach, not admission.