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Post by dunninla3 on Dec 8, 2019 19:10:05 GMT -5
Interestingly, last night at dinner someone mentioned that Laughlin and Mossimo's hubris is merely a reflection of that held by their attorney, Latham and Watkins. Is it possible someone at the top of Latham can simply make a call to someone at the top of Justice? Wouldn't be the first time.
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Post by volleykenzie on Dec 8, 2019 19:34:04 GMT -5
we can’t get rid of this thread it never disappears
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Post by azvb on Dec 8, 2019 19:36:21 GMT -5
I saw some guy who turned himself in (it's not clear whether he knew he was being actively investigated already) and plead guilty just got sentenced to two months in prison and had to pay a fine of $250,000 (which was the same amount he paid as a bribe). But hey, reportedly his son loves going to USC. I wonder what will happen to people who get convicted without a plea bargain. Surfing executive is sentenced to two months in prison for paying a fixer $250,000 to get his son into USC in the college admissions scandal On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock condemned 59-year-old Jeffrey Bizzack to two months in prison, making him 12th parent to be sentenced in the USC college admissions scandal www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7633107/Surfing-executive-sentenced-two-months-prison-USC-college-admissions-scandal.htmlWhat on earth is a “surfing executive”?
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Post by Carlito on Dec 8, 2019 20:35:26 GMT -5
sorry, I mean why to 100 pages? . This story is entertaining and 100 is a nice round number.
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Post by dunninla3 on Dec 8, 2019 20:36:35 GMT -5
well, then, at this point that goal has been achieved.
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Post by dominic on Dec 8, 2019 22:54:36 GMT -5
#1. USC isn't a hard school to get into. If her daughters couldn't get in on their own merits, they must not be very smart at all. Nor is a degree from there worth 500,000 lol....Aunt Becky should be sent to prison for being stupid. I could somewhat understand bribery if you were trying to bribe your way into Harvard. USC? lmao
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Post by dunninla3 on Dec 8, 2019 23:46:20 GMT -5
^ dominic, your comment is appropriate for the 1970s and 1980s. Somewhere in the early 90s USC turned the corner and began getting harding to get into. At this point in time, it is about equally hard to get into as UCLA and Cal Berkeley... which is to say, pretty hard. That is also reflected in their USNWR ranking which wasn't on the map in the 80s at all, and had been top 30 for a number of years now.
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Post by geddyleeridesagain on Dec 9, 2019 0:03:38 GMT -5
#1. USC isn't a hard school to get into. If her daughters couldn't get in on their own merits, they must not be very smart at all. Nor is a degree from there worth 500,000 lol....Aunt Becky should be sent to prison for being stupid. I could somewhat understand bribery if you were trying to bribe your way into Harvard. USC? lmao Setting aside the question of what price to put on an education, USC’s admissions rate is extremely low - it’s slightly easier to get into Cal or UCLA than USC. Which, it would seem, Donna Heinel was well aware and took full advantage of ‘SC’s academic ranking and cachet in SoCal to create quite a lucrative side job.
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Post by dominic on Dec 9, 2019 0:22:11 GMT -5
#1. USC isn't a hard school to get into. If her daughters couldn't get in on their own merits, they must not be very smart at all. Nor is a degree from there worth 500,000 lol....Aunt Becky should be sent to prison for being stupid. I could somewhat understand bribery if you were trying to bribe your way into Harvard. USC? lmao Setting aside the question of what price to put on an education, USC’s admissions rate is extremely low - it’s slightly easier to get into Cal or UCLA than USC. Which, it would seem, Donna Heinel was well aware and took full advantage of ‘SC’s academic ranking and cachet in SoCal to create quite a lucrative side job. I graduated HS in 1999, and from University of Illinois in 2004. When I was in HS, I got alot of mail from USC. Not just flyers, they would send a full color magazine which no other schools would. USC was a private school, and their tuition was very high, so I was under the impression their admissions rates were fairly flexible if they were recruiting students from across the US ( i lived in Illinois). I never considered USC on par academically (back then) with anyone though. They certainly weren't on the level of say a Northwestern (another private school, but one that you needed very high scores to get into). Back then, USC was only a good school to go to if you were going into film school. So that is why this story is so crazy to me. I admit I haven't followed the school rankings for the last 15 years, but it still shocking to me that a school on the level of USC would have students trying to bribe their way in. Again, it's not the Ivy League. A degree from USC is no more valuable than one from UCLA, Cal, and it's far less prestigious than Stanford.
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Post by mikegarrison on Dec 9, 2019 0:27:46 GMT -5
People want what they want. Clearly some people wanted to get their kids into USC. That's all that's really relevant here.
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Post by reader on Dec 9, 2019 9:57:07 GMT -5
People want what they want. Clearly some people wanted to get their kids into USC. That's all that's really relevant here. Right, you can't account for taste. Look at that red dress Lori is wearing in the image above. She probably paid a lot for that, certainly more than any of us would spend, and yet I'd look terrible in it. (It's not just the fact that I'm 6'4" out of shape and slightly balding, but that color red just makes me look all washed out.)
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Post by azvb on Dec 9, 2019 11:02:06 GMT -5
I had no idea! A surf ranch? They learn how to raise cattle in case surfing doesn’t pan out?
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Post by vbfan003 on Dec 9, 2019 11:35:44 GMT -5
I saw some guy who turned himself in (it's not clear whether he knew he was being actively investigated already) and plead guilty just got sentenced to two months in prison and had to pay a fine of $250,000 (which was the same amount he paid as a bribe). But hey, reportedly his son loves going to USC. I wonder what will happen to people who get convicted without a plea bargain. Surfing executive is sentenced to two months in prison for paying a fixer $250,000 to get his son into USC in the college admissions scandal On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock condemned 59-year-old Jeffrey Bizzack to two months in prison, making him 12th parent to be sentenced in the USC college admissions scandal www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7633107/Surfing-executive-sentenced-two-months-prison-USC-college-admissions-scandal.htmlDid they expel the student? His dad apparently hid the fact he got in as an athlete from him - really? Is this in fact possible? There would have been no contact with the student from the school that might have tipped him off that athletics was involved in his admission? Seriously, I’m asking if this is possible or a load of crap....
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Post by staticb on Dec 9, 2019 12:46:05 GMT -5
Did they expel the student? His dad apparently hid the fact he got in as an athlete from him - really? Is this in fact possible? There would have been no contact with the student from the school that might have tipped him off that athletics was involved in his admission? Seriously, I’m asking if this is possible or a load of crap....
The students are not being expelled if they had no idea. They are being taken on a case by case basis.
I went to a private school--and well, let me say that a lot of people there assumed they were smart enough to get their on their own merits when they really weren't. People don't know what they don't know. (I mean, most people would assume their parents aren't crazy enough to go ahead with such a scheme to begin with)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2019 12:53:47 GMT -5
Did they expel the student? His dad apparently hid the fact he got in as an athlete from him - really? Is this in fact possible? There would have been no contact with the student from the school that might have tipped him off that athletics was involved in his admission? Seriously, I’m asking if this is possible or a load of crap....
The students are not being expelled if they had no idea. They are being taken on a case by case basis.
I went to a private school--and well, let me say that a lot of people there assumed they were smart enough to get their on their own merits when they really weren't. People don't know what they don't know. (I mean, most people would assume their parents aren't crazy enough to go ahead with such a scheme to begin with)
Why should a student be able to stay if someone had to pay to get them In instead of on their own merits ?
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