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Actresses, CEOs arrested in nationwide college admissions cheating scam
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https://www.teenvogue.com/story/the...disabled-people/amp?__twitter_impression=true
I'm not sure if this article has been linked but it does a good job framing the issue regarding folks faking disabilities to get accommodation. The tl;dr is if your knee jerk reaction to raise the burden of proof for those with disabilities that they "need" accommodations, disabled folks are the ones who are hurt most for something they didn't do.
My own experience with SAT is awful; I have three learning disabilities (autism, dysgraphia, and CAPD). You need a recent evaluation which not everyone has. You will be rejected and appealed. Only some of the accommodations will be approved. The entire process can take six months to a year *at least*. This is to say nothing of the test itself, but that's another discussion.
And no, you can't judge from academics. My high school GPA was high, but I went to a private school for autistic teenagers; a decision that was informed after my then public school pulled really shitty strategies to revoke my IEP plan because I was doing well academically despite literally crashing a year earlier. Once accessibility needs are met, folks with learning disabilities can do well; if you assume someone with a learning disability isn't doing well academically you're implicitly assuming no accessibility can meet learning disabilities or people with learning disabilities abuse accommodations and both interpretations are ableist af.
One reason I was able to get accommodations is because my school was aware of a lot of this bullshit, such as being rejected almost always. I can't get GRE accommodations because I can't get the recent evaluation because, well, poor grad student.
I bring this post up because I'm afraid a lot of ableds will take the wrong message from the fakers in these indicent and make an already broken system worse. :/
I'm not sure if this article has been linked but it does a good job framing the issue regarding folks faking disabilities to get accommodation. The tl;dr is if your knee jerk reaction to raise the burden of proof for those with disabilities that they "need" accommodations, disabled folks are the ones who are hurt most for something they didn't do.
My own experience with SAT is awful; I have three learning disabilities (autism, dysgraphia, and CAPD). You need a recent evaluation which not everyone has. You will be rejected and appealed. Only some of the accommodations will be approved. The entire process can take six months to a year *at least*. This is to say nothing of the test itself, but that's another discussion.
And no, you can't judge from academics. My high school GPA was high, but I went to a private school for autistic teenagers; a decision that was informed after my then public school pulled really shitty strategies to revoke my IEP plan because I was doing well academically despite literally crashing a year earlier. Once accessibility needs are met, folks with learning disabilities can do well; if you assume someone with a learning disability isn't doing well academically you're implicitly assuming no accessibility can meet learning disabilities or people with learning disabilities abuse accommodations and both interpretations are ableist af.
One reason I was able to get accommodations is because my school was aware of a lot of this bullshit, such as being rejected almost always. I can't get GRE accommodations because I can't get the recent evaluation because, well, poor grad student.
I bring this post up because I'm afraid a lot of ableds will take the wrong message from the fakers in these indicent and make an already broken system worse. :/
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Sephora has ended its partnership with YouTuber Olivia Jade, the 19-year-old daughter of Lori Loughlin, who's at the center of the nationwide college admissions cheating scamhttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyachen/sephora-has-dropped-olivia-jade?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
3:34 PM - Mar 14, 2019
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Sephora has ended its partnership with YouTuber Olivia Jade, the 19-year-old daughter of Lori Loughlin, who's at the center of the nationwide college admissions cheating scamhttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyachen/sephora-has-dropped-olivia-jade?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc …
3:34 PM - Mar 14, 2019
William Singer admitted "helping" up to 750 families with his scheme. It's alot more than 40 families and I would bet anything that the corruption didn't end at the enrollment phase. If one guy was able to find a bunch of corrupt people across multiple colleges to cheat enrollment, there's no way he would've stopped there. He would've found corrupt professors to change grades too.
I wonder if they sent her a "You got fired but its not the end of the world" card with a cat next to a margarita.
Hell, I want to see a Fuller House x Orange is the New Black crossover.
Phil Mickelson paid Singer's company as well, but insists it wasn't a bribe and it was just for assistance through the application process. (His daughter subsequently got into Brown).
Phil could use some help from Singer's SAT grammar experts.
Phil could use some help from Singer's SAT grammar experts.
Amazing that these people need assistance with the college application process and there I was filling one out on my own at 16 years old.
Maybe it's just me, but I feel like people generally have stronger hatred towards Loughlin over this than R. Kelly currently.
Phil's claim is that his children are so sought after by so many colleges that he needed help navigating the process of picking the appropriate school. Try not to roll your eyes too far into the back of your head.
It should be relatively easy to unearth whether Phil paid into the fake charity, how much he paid into it, and what the admissions process was like for his kids (any fake sports, etc.) If he isn't clean he's an idiot to speak up about it right now.
R Kelly is a known scumbag. Aunt Becky and her daughter turning out to be something of a twit is a surprise.
Extrapolating to society, this is how you get more Donald Trumps over Bill Gates. It causes horrible malinvest and indirectly harms everyone. And this is why people bribing must do prison time.
He spoke up about it because he was asked why his wife's quote appears on Singer's business' website praising their service.
With this and one ad pulling on the girl I wonder what's next.
My money is setting up a tell all book and getting millions on it
A Good Morning America interview where she cries and whines about how unfairly her family has been treated and that the public doesn't have "the whole story".
I'm sure the book will be about how Singer preyed on her hopes and dreams of going to college and being a scholar.
I hope investigators.... wait for it
THROW THE BOOK AT THEM.
I'm sorry.
R. Kelly's probably the happiest man alive atm after this all came out.
bit late ot the party. Did her daughters also know about this beforehand?
You might say they were snuck in by means of a fancy but hollow delivery mechanism.
How quickly her kids skedaddled makes me suspect they knew something...
A lot of tuition funds go towards financial aid and scholarships as well.
Pretty sure he's referencing how (literally) stupid she is and how we all suffer because of her useless existence, or something. At least that's how I interpreted it.
Crazy how we are basically discussing going in from the back door when the side door worked just as well and is LEGAL.
For all the talk about deadbeat legacy students, the data from the Asian affirmative action lawsuit shows that legacies on average have higher score than other applicants.
It makes for great tv.
"When Calls The Cell Block H"
"Full House In The Big House"
Come back to me later. I can do better.
I believe her daughters were the ones that were supposedly going to be on the crew team. And I also think they were part of the staging of the fake photos to prove that they participated regularly in that sport. They knew.
Joe Montana was also asked about his relationship with Singer:
It's weird, I never found the application process to be all that confusing
It's weird, I never found the application process to be all that confusing
This is what fucking kills me. I might understand that amount for Stanford or an Ivy League, but USC?
