Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin Charged in College Admissions Cheating Scheme

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USC is not worth $500k!!! I mean really, what is the point of this?

Their girls would have been better off if they would have gone to community college and a local 4-yr state school and the parents just gave them each $250k to invest. That whole thing was just monumentally stupid.

You can't post cool pics on your insta if you're at cc. (seriously, I spent a few minutes on looking at her social media- it's just a slight click under porn imo)

I'm not surprised to see bribery- that's as old as time. I'm not surprised wealthy people use their money - is there a "wing" of a hospital or a college that wasn't put there because of a generous donor somewhere? Endowments in the millions and billions didn't appear magically- they are gifted from almuni and donors, and of course that comes with perks. Why would it not? (what "kind" of perks is a different question - clearly these people picked the wrong kind lol)
I don't think the general public is shocked that it happened. What is truly the most interesting aspect to me, is that it's being prosecuted! And that it's criminal. Wow, I mean really wow. I don't know what's motivating such enthusiasm - maybe someone didn't get into the college of his dreams when he was young? But whatever it is, it's really going to shake things up. Do we give the parents and coaches jail time?

On an aside note, I've been a standardized exam proctor for 10 years- I don't do a lot, just a few clients per year to meet the homeschool testing requirements, but as a proctor, I don't have any kind of "key" or answers- I'm literally just overseeing exam integrity. I think it would be easy to arrange cheating if someone was motivated. I don't know about SAT/ACT (the exams used in the scandal) but maybe testing as an admissions measure isn't a great assessment tool?