National cheating conspiracy...It's going to get ugly.

[dero316]

Yale just booted one of the participants. Guessing more will follow.

Former Yale women’s soccer coach Rudy Meredith has been charged with taking $400,000 in exchange for facilitating the admission of a student under the guise that she was a soccer recruit, even though he knew she had never played the sport.

Yale President Peter Salovey said in a March 15 letter to the university community that that the FBI concluded the coach gave “bogus athletic endorsements” to two students, one of whom was admitted to Yale.

Yale rescinds admission of student in bribery scandal

 

[Banditking]

one other thing, and I don't remember who said this (maybe Ben Shapiro), is that these students weren't necessarily failing or struggling at these institutions where they supposedly didn't qualify for entry. Just something to ponder.

That’s not surprising.

The difference between a great test score and a good test score in act/sat land, aside from cheating (some of your Asian and celebrity/rich people avenues) is a combination of environment and studying for the test (often expensive).

Take someone who gets a 29 on the act. These days a good but not great score. Perhaps they got that without prep and maybe they hit 35 on the critical reasoning (science) section. They’re not going to struggle if they exert appropriate effort.

If you’ve got a bunch of gunners in high school and a gifted kid who’s not particularly engaged, a late bloomer in terms of interest in school, or, more commonly, a bored kid, the gifted kid may win eventually. Also, that scenario of ability minus engagement is quite common.

You could siphon the top out of most state schools and throw them in a classroom with the Ivy types and you’ll not notice a difference in performance.

Of course, there’s also grade inflation.