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Post by Phaedrus on Mar 28, 2019 20:29:58 GMT -5
Without looking it up, can you guys even name the schools that famous politicians, personalities, and CEOs graduated from? I can't. Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Mike Pompeo, John McCain, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (had to look her up to get her name right, LOL!), Beto O'Rourke, Harvey Weinstein, Rupert Murdoch, Tim Cook (CEO of Apple; aka Tim Apple), Michael Avenatti, George Clooney, Stephen Colbert, George Lucas, Oprah Winfrey, Rex Tillerson, etc. (Yes, some of these names are infamous.) I have no idea where these doofs went to school. Of course, there are many others whose educational background I CAN name. But I wonder if it really mattered to them. Yes, there will be the stories here and there of someone who'll say, "Gosh, darn, without that Stanford degree, I wouldn't have met Joe and if I hadn't met Joe, we would never have founded our enormously successful start-up." Yeah, there will always be those. I'm talking statistically speaking, as in the bulk of the population. I think the Warren Buffets (Nebraska, btw) and the Waltons (of the wealthy family who founded Wal-Mart) of the world would be successful because of talent, drive, their choices in life, and of course, luck -- not because of where they went to school. Who knows? I always check to see if they went to the same school I did, after that I didn't care. I also check to see if any politician has a technical background, I am always disappointed, except for Jimmy Carter, he spent a year at Georgia Tech nd then went to the Naval Academy. Funny thing is that one time Carter was at some function at Tech and was standing next to teh president of McDonnell Douglas I think, turns out they were freshman room mates at Georgia Tech.
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Post by trainermch on Mar 29, 2019 9:01:30 GMT -5
It's Parents' Day in Boston.
Also, I hope we will hear more about these "very talented test takers," as they are being called.
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Post by trainermch on Mar 29, 2019 9:07:55 GMT -5
Noooooooo Parents, including inventor of 'Hot Pockets,' headed to court in largest-ever college admissions cheating scamwww.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/29/college-admissions-bribery-case-parents-head-court-boston/3308349002/More than a dozen parents charged in a nationwide college admissions cheating scheme are due in court. They are expected to make initial appearances Friday in federal court in Boston. The parents scheduled to appear include Michelle Janavs, 48, the inventor of "Hot Pockets;" William McGlashan, Jr., 56, the ex-senior executive of private equity firm TPG; Gregory Abbott, 68, the founder and chairman of International Dispensing Corp., and his wife, Marcia, 59, according to ABC News. Other parents ordered to appear are former casino executive Gamal Abdelaziz, 62; Los Angeles sales executive Stephen Semprevivo Jr., 53; Napa Valley winemaker Austine Huneeus, 53; San Francisco entrepreneur Todd Black, 53, and his wife, Diana Blake, 55, an exec at a retail merchandising firm; Marjorie Klapper, 50, the California co-owner of M&M Bling; Marci Palatella, 63, CEO of Preservation Distillery; and Robert Zangrillo, 52, a big-time Miami investor and real-estate developer, ABC reports. They’re among 33 prominent parents charged in what authorities have called the biggest college admissions scam ever prosecuted. Authorities say the parents paid an admission consultant to rig their children’s test scores and bribe coaches at sought-after schools. Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, who are charged in the case, are not scheduled to appear in court until next week. They have not publicly addressed the allegations. On Thursday, former Yale University women’s soccer coach Rudy Meredith became the third person to plead guilty in the case. The admissions consultant at the center of the scheme has also pleaded [not pled] guilty.
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Post by future on Mar 29, 2019 9:48:34 GMT -5
www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/college-admissions-scam-reveals-one-percent-s-anxiety-about-0-ncna988646College admissions scam reveals the one percent's anxiety about the 0.1 percentThe price of admission for everything coveted has gone up — and it all comes down to the destructive effects of a runaway train called economic inequality. What’s happening is that the price of admission for everything coveted has gone up. And even some of the wealthy are having trouble keeping up.
It all comes down to the destructive effects of a runaway train called economic inequality. Several decades of policies that concentrate wealth at the top have produced a large gap between the rich and everybody else. But there’s also a growing chasm between the top one percent and the gold-plated group that has pulled away from them — the .01 percent.
In the last four decades, members of the .01 club have gotten richer far faster than their fellow one percenters. By 2012, the wealthiest group’s slice of America’s wealth pie was four times bigger than it was in the 1970s, according to economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman of the University of California at Berkeley. The superrich own jets and mega-yachts. The rich fly first class and buy sailboats. The superrich send their kids to Harvard and Yale. The rich scramble for a spot at USC.
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Post by volleyguy on Mar 29, 2019 11:21:32 GMT -5
I want to know who paid the $6.5 Million and to whom.
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Post by mikegarrison on Mar 29, 2019 11:56:04 GMT -5
Without looking it up, can you guys even name the schools that famous politicians, personalities, and CEOs graduated from? I can't. Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Mike Pompeo, John McCain, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (had to look her up to get her name right, LOL!), Beto O'Rourke, Harvey Weinstein, Rupert Murdoch, Tim Cook (CEO of Apple; aka Tim Apple), Michael Avenatti, George Clooney, Stephen Colbert, George Lucas, Oprah Winfrey, Rex Tillerson, etc. (Yes, some of these names are infamous.) I have no idea where these doofs went to school. Of course, there are many others whose educational background I CAN name. But I wonder if it really mattered to them. Yes, there will be the stories here and there of someone who'll say, "Gosh, darn, without that Stanford degree, I wouldn't have met Joe and if I hadn't met Joe, we would never have founded our enormously successful start-up." Yeah, there will always be those. I'm talking statistically speaking, as in the bulk of the population. I think the Warren Buffets (Nebraska, btw) and the Waltons (of the wealthy family who founded Wal-Mart) of the world would be successful because of talent, drive, their choices in life, and of course, luck -- not because of where they went to school. Who knows? I always check to see if they went to the same school I did, after that I didn't care. I also check to see if any politician has a technical background, I am always disappointed, except for Jimmy Carter, he spent a year at Georgia Tech nd then went to the Naval Academy. Funny thing is that one time Carter was at some function at Tech and was standing next to teh president of McDonnell Douglas I think, turns out they were freshman room mates at Georgia Tech. There have only been two engineers who were Presidents of the USA: Hoover and Carter. I'm sad about this, but that kind of indicates that maybe having engineers be President is a bad idea. Likewise, there are only two people who were ever President after being businessmen who never held elective office: Hoover and Trump. That definitely indicates business is not a better background for President than politics.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 2, 2019 13:27:15 GMT -5
I like that some of these kids own up to the fact that they got into Yale through means other than "merit" (e.g., legacy).
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Post by Mocha on Apr 3, 2019 14:45:29 GMT -5
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Post by hammer on Apr 3, 2019 15:42:32 GMT -5
With all the scandals I just hope USC can find enough money to maintain certain key statues that exist on campus now ...
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Post by azvb on Apr 3, 2019 16:56:28 GMT -5
Who is she holding hands with? That’s not William Macy!! Wolfgang I posted a picture 😀
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2019 17:01:06 GMT -5
Her brother
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 3, 2019 17:17:39 GMT -5
Who is she holding hands with? That’s not William Macy!! Wolfgang I posted a picture 😀 Hurray! Now resize it.
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Post by pepperbrooks on Apr 3, 2019 18:55:36 GMT -5
I like that some of these kids own up to the fact that they got into Yale through means other than "merit" (e.g., legacy). They really have no way of knowing how much it helped them, though. They may have been perfectly qualified on merit.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2019 21:10:41 GMT -5
I like that some of these kids own up to the fact that they got into Yale through means other than "merit" (e.g., legacy). They really have no way of knowing how much it helped them, though. They may have been perfectly qualified on merit. I was kind of shocked how poorly the kids expressed themselves after four years of a free Yale education. I understand the other kids likely had four additional years at prep schools but I thought the first three would be more impressive. It is Yale.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 3, 2019 21:17:01 GMT -5
They really have no way of knowing how much it helped them, though. They may have been perfectly qualified on merit. I was kind of shocked how poorly the kids expressed themselves after four years of a free Yale education. I understand the other kids likely had four additional years at prep schools but I thought the first three would be more impressive. It is Yale. Honestly, I was a babbling idiot in college. When I started working as an engineer and was forced to talk to other people, all older professionals, in an effective manner, my speaking ability ramped up dramatically. There's "talking to your friends and family" and then there's "talking like an adult in a professional manner." I had to learn the latter on the job, from choice of vocabulary to rhythm to more careful deliberation. (I did kind of have a head start because I went to grad school and was teaching 2 sections every semester. So, that forced me to get better.) I wouldn't sweat the kids. They'll learn.
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