[ SECRET POST #4467 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4467 ⌋

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[Robert Sheehan (Actor from Umbrella Academy and Misfits)]


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[Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

one of them paid for false SATs, yes. the other paid for a coach of a sport to pretend her daughter was in the sport so she could get recruited to be on the team.

it wasn't about the kid being smart enough (though given that she has publicly said on her instagram that she never goes to class lol whatever she's going to be an influencer, makes me think she probably isn't) but that with their regular test scores they'd be in the middle of a pack of equally mediocre students who can probably hack it in college just fine. the problem being, that's a lot of people without something to make them stand out and make a major university like USC approve their application rather than deny it. A perfect ACT score or a very high SAT score would push the application into approval territory, and being recruited for a sport guarantees approval.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah. So it's more like they went the illegal route to get them into a more prestigious school that has limited entry. Still weirdly seems like a waste of money to me, but no more wasteful than normal people who push their kids into universities when the kid has no interest in it.

[(Anonymous)]

pretty much. it's straight-up illegal and a douche thing to do, because kids who've worked their asses off to get into the same school get denied not because they're not good enough, but because someone paid their way in. our system is fucked up on a lot of levels, not the least of which is guaranteeing schooling to athletes who don't get paid but are used as marketing tools to make millions of dollars.

most of the outrage is because the very people who say "if you just work hard enough you'll get in! oh you didn't get in because you weren't good enough and didn't work hard enough" are the same people who are bypassing both hard work and talent through money. it's so fucking obvious that the rich can buy their success but the rest of us just get told to work harder and pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.

[(Anonymous)]

da but i can't trash on the athletics thing too much because for a lot of poor kids, that's their only chance to go to a good school. they may not have the grades or the test scores that the wealthier kids do because the school they attended wasn't on par with the public schools in the more well-to-do areas, but that doesn't mean they aren't capable of learning and doing well in a better environment.