L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents in Admissions Scandal
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#2They're not that elite if they're gonna get ensnared in this one. If you're one of the elite you just donate a building, which is a completely legal way to get your kids into a school of your choice.
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#3They're not that elite if they're gonna get ensnared in this one. If you're one of the elite you just donate a building, which is a completely legal way to get your kids into a school of your choice.
not elite enough to escape scrutiny but elite enough to embark on these ventures
It's a balancing act, and this time it looks like many are going to fall.
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#4That's really fantastic news.
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#5They're not that elite if they're gonna get ensnared in this one. If you're one of the elite you just donate a building, which is a completely legal way to get your kids into a school of your choice.
$500,000 isn't going to get you much of a building. These folks just didn't want to fork out the real dough even though some of them had the means.
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#6They're not that elite if they're gonna get ensnared in this one. If you're one of the elite you just donate a building, which is a completely legal way to get your kids into a school of your choice.
At least donating a building gives value to the other attending students that far outweighs the cost of their child going
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#7They're not that elite if they're gonna get ensnared in this one. If you're one of the elite you just donate a building, which is a completely legal way to get your kids into a school of your choice.
What a great way to polarize more people in this political environment if some of these parents are let off the hook.
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#82 years in jail for this is absurd. A week would be more than enough.
Re: L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents in Admissions Scandal
#9They're not that elite if they're gonna get ensnared in this one. If you're one of the elite you just donate a building, which is a completely legal way to get your kids into a school of your choice.
What a great way to polarize more people in this political environment if some of these parents are let off the hook.
People have been giving buildings and endowments for hundreds of years. It is not illegal to give buildings and money for the endowments. What these folks did was run a scam on the university.
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#10They're not that elite if they're gonna get ensnared in this one. If you're one of the elite you just donate a building, which is a completely legal way to get your kids into a school of your choice.
At least donating a building gives value to the other attending students that far outweighs the cost of their child going
What about the kids that didn’t get to go? The ones that the rich students replaced. That’s the real tragedy. The students don’t even know that they were out-moneid.