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RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - Robbie - 10-09-2019

(10-09-2019, 07:52 AM)cardcrimson Wrote:  Very long, somewhat interesting article on the impact of the scandal on a kid who didn't get a scholarship. The stunner was the tidbit that Don Kennedy, Ted Mitchell, and Fred Hargadon all served on Singer's board of advisors. That's some Stanford connection. . . .

https://www.propublica.org/article/an-unseen-victim-of-the-college-admissions-scandal-the-high-school-tennis-champion-aced-out-by-a-billionaires-family

Not only is that a strong Stanford connection - they were warned at the time that it was a fishy operation.

Quote:In January 2008, more than a decade before Singer’s guilty plea, Jon Reider, then the director of college counseling at San Francisco University High School and a former senior admissions officer at Stanford, emailed advisory board members Kennedy, Hargadon and Mitchell and urged them to stop working with Singer.


RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - cardcrimson - 10-09-2019

(10-09-2019, 11:11 AM)washingtonismoney Wrote:  
(10-09-2019, 07:52 AM)cardcrimson Wrote:  Very long, somewhat interesting article on the impact of the scandal on a kid who didn't get a scholarship. The stunner was the tidbit that Don Kennedy, Ted Mitchell, and Fred Hargadon all served on Singer's board of advisors. That's some Stanford connection. . . .

https://www.propublica.org/article/an-unseen-victim-of-the-college-admissions-scandal-the-high-school-tennis-champion-aced-out-by-a-billionaires-family

While it's a well reported story, one asterisk -- I do find it a bit hard to believe a 5'11" guy is a top, top tennis prospect unless the rest of his game is amazing. (Which the description of his tools -- strong forehand + serve; weak backhand -- does not suggest.) Anyway, that's mostly me being persnicketty.

Listed as a 3 star recruit, number 135 in the country in 2017 according to Tennis Recruiting. . . .

RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - CTcard - 10-09-2019

(10-08-2019, 01:16 PM)82lsju Wrote:  - Huffman with 9 points, got 14 days

- Caplan with 11 points, got 1 month

- G. Abbot with 13 points, got 1 month 

- M. Abbot with 13 points, got 1 month 

- Sloane with 14 points, got 4 months

- Semprevivo with 16 points, got 4 months

- Huneeus with 16 points, got 5 months (note he is the first one sentenced who was involved in both the test cheating and bribery aspects of the case)



coming soon (at least the ones with plea agreements here https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/investigations-college-admissions-and-testing-bribery-scheme , there are a few others with sentencing dates but no agreements)



Sartorio on 11 Oct 2019 has 7 points

Klapper on 16 Oct 2019 has 9 points

Flaxman on 18 Oct 2019 has 11 points

Buckingham on 23 Oct 2019 has 11 points

Center on 30 Oct 2019 has 14 points

MacFarlane on 13 Nov 2019 has 16 points



further out



Janke on 18 Jan 20 has 18 points

B. Isackson on 21 May 20 has 21 points

D. Isackson on 21 May 20 has 18 points

Can somebody recap the points system in use here?

RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - cardcrimson - 10-09-2019

(10-09-2019, 01:05 PM)CTcard Wrote:  [quote="82lsju" pid='257685' dateline='1570565782']


Can somebody recap the points system in use here?

It's explained earlier in the thread. . . .

RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - 82lsju - 10-09-2019

(10-09-2019, 07:52 AM)cardcrimson Wrote:  Very long, somewhat interesting article on the impact of the scandal on a kid who didn't get a scholarship. The stunner was the tidbit that Don Kennedy, Ted Mitchell, and Fred Hargadon all served on Singer's board of advisors. That's some Stanford connection. . . .

https://www.propublica.org/article/an-unseen-victim-of-the-college-admissions-scandal-the-high-school-tennis-champion-aced-out-by-a-billionaires-family

from the propublica article

Quote:In January 2008, more than a decade before Singer’s guilty plea, Jon Reider, then the director of college counseling at San Francisco University High School and a former senior admissions officer at Stanford, emailed advisory board members Kennedy, Hargadon and Mitchell and urged them to stop working with Singer.

from earlier this year

Quote:Reider was able to share insight and his opinions on the workings — and moral and legal question marks — of elite admissions.
...
I instigated this, through the admissions office — these people and said, 'This guy is using your name, and I don't think you want to have your name used, because I don't think he's doing a this in a legitimate way.' And they both insisted, these two people, that they didn't want to be associated with him.


"He had a mythical advisory board. ... He had made up this advisory board and put these people on it. And they didn't even know about it, and they didn't know anything about his work, and they didn't want to be."

The two men Reider is referring to are former Stanford President Donald Kennedy, who served from 1980-1992, and Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education (ACE), former president of Occidental College and former president of the California State Board of Education.

Kennedy could not be reached for comment.

Mitchell released this statement on admissions cheating allegations via the ACE:

"If these allegations are true, they violate the essential premise of a fair and transparent college admissions process. This alleged behavior is antithetical to the core values of our institutions, defrauds students and families, and has absolutely no place in American higher education."

https://amp.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/03/13/college-admissions-scandal-doj-stanford
(10-09-2019, 01:05 PM)CTcard Wrote:  Can somebody recap the points system in use here?

see post 315 in this thread

RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - CTcard - 10-09-2019

(10-09-2019, 01:18 PM)82lsju Wrote:  
(10-09-2019, 01:05 PM)CTcard Wrote:  Can somebody recap the points system in use here?



see post 315 in this thread

Thanks for the post number - it's a long thread.
It would be interesting to know why some get a 2 point reduction and some 3 for "accepting responsibility".
I assume "accepting responsibility" essentially means coming to a plea bargain?

RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - 82lsju - 10-09-2019

(10-09-2019, 01:40 PM)CTcard Wrote:  Thanks for the post number - it's a long thread.
It would be interesting to know why some get a 2 point reduction and some 3 for "accepting responsibility".
I assume "accepting responsibility" essentially means coming to a plea bargain?

I looked at a few of the plea agreements and it seems the people who had more points got a 3 point reduction, the cut off seems to be those with 15 or fewer gross points got a 2 point reduction, those with 17 or more gross points got a 3 point reduction (so far no one with 16 gross points)

the section of the code cited is slightly different for those with 2 points (USSG §3E1.1(a)) vs those with 3 points (USSG §3E1.1(b)), although some of each (2 and 3 points) are less specific and just show USSG §3E1.1

so it appears that if you had more to apologize for get more credit for the apology......

RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - 82lsju - 10-11-2019

Quote:Sartorio, 54, was sentenced to a year of probation plus 250 hours of community service and a $9,500 fine

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/10/11/menlo-park-dad-first-parent-to-avoid-prison-in-college-scandal/

the scoreboard

- Huffman with 9 points, got 14 days
- Caplan with 11 points, got 1 month
- G. Abbot with 13 points, got 1 month 
- M. Abbot with 13 points, got 1 month 
- Sloane with 14 points, got 4 months
- Semprevivo with 16 points, got 4 months
- Huneeus with 16 points, got 5 months (note he is the first one sentenced who was involved in both the test cheating and bribery aspects of the case)
- Sartorio with 7 points, got probation

coming soon (at least the ones with plea agreements here https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/investigations-college-admissions-and-testing-bribery-scheme , there are a few others with sentencing dates but no agreements)

Klapper on 16 Oct 2019 has 9 points
Flaxman on 18 Oct 2019 has 11 points
Buckingham on 23 Oct 2019 has 11 points
Center on 30 Oct 2019 has 14 points
MacFarlane on 13 Nov 2019 has 16 points

further out

Janke on 18 Jan 20 has 18 points
B. Isackson on 21 May 20 has 21 points
D. Isackson on 21 May 20 has 18 points

RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - Poly81 - 10-11-2019

I worked with Jon in the undergraduate admissions office way back when.  I can completely see him doing this, and I really respect what he did.  Not many with the fortitude to do it, from what I can tell....

(10-09-2019, 01:18 PM)82lsju Wrote:  
(10-09-2019, 07:52 AM)cardcrimson Wrote:  Very long, somewhat interesting article on the impact of the scandal on a kid who didn't get a scholarship. The stunner was the tidbit that Don Kennedy, Ted Mitchell, and Fred Hargadon all served on Singer's board of advisors. That's some Stanford connection. . . .

https://www.propublica.org/article/an-unseen-victim-of-the-college-admissions-scandal-the-high-school-tennis-champion-aced-out-by-a-billionaires-family

from the propublica article

Quote:In January 2008, more than a decade before Singer’s guilty plea, Jon Reider, then the director of college counseling at San Francisco University High School and a former senior admissions officer at Stanford, emailed advisory board members Kennedy, Hargadon and Mitchell and urged them to stop working with Singer.

from earlier this year

Quote:Reider was able to share insight and his opinions on the workings — and moral and legal question marks — of elite admissions.
...
I instigated this, through the admissions office — these people and said, 'This guy is using your name, and I don't think you want to have your name used, because I don't think he's doing a this in a legitimate way.' And they both insisted, these two people, that they didn't want to be associated with him.


"He had a mythical advisory board. ... He had made up this advisory board and put these people on it. And they didn't even know about it, and they didn't know anything about his work, and they didn't want to be."

The two men Reider is referring to are former Stanford President Donald Kennedy, who served from 1980-1992, and Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education (ACE), former president of Occidental College and former president of the California State Board of Education.

Kennedy could not be reached for comment.

Mitchell released this statement on admissions cheating allegations via the ACE:

"If these allegations are true, they violate the essential premise of a fair and transparent college admissions process. This alleged behavior is antithetical to the core values of our institutions, defrauds students and families, and has absolutely no place in American higher education."

https://amp.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/03/13/college-admissions-scandal-doj-stanford
(10-09-2019, 01:05 PM)CTcard Wrote:  Can somebody recap the points system in use here?

see post 315 in this thread


RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - 82lsju - 10-17-2019

Quote: [Marjorie Klapper] The owner of a California jewelry business was sentenced Wednesday to three weeks in prison after she was accused of paying $15,000 to rig her son's ACT exam and of falsely listing him as a racial minority on college applications.
...
Klapper also was accused of falsely listing her son as African American and Hispanic on college applications to increase his chances of getting admitted, and of indicating he was the first in his family to attend college. Prosecutors said both Klapper and her husband graduated from college.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marjorie-klapper-jewellery-menlo-park-california-parent-sentenced-college-admissions-scandal-2019-10-16/

the scoreboard

- Sartorio with 7 points, got probation
- Huffman with 9 points, got 2 weeks
- Klapper with 9 points, got 3 weeks
- Caplan with 11 points, got 1 month
- G. Abbot with 13 points, got 1 month 
- M. Abbot with 13 points, got 1 month 
- Sloane with 14 points, got 4 months
- Semprevivo with 16 points, got 4 months
- Huneeus with 16 points, got 5 months (note he is the first one sentenced who was involved in both the test cheating and bribery aspects of the case)

coming soon (at least the ones with plea agreements here https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/investig...ery-scheme , there are a few others with sentencing dates but no agreements)

Flaxman on 18 Oct 2019 has 11 points
Buckingham on 23 Oct 2019 has 11 points
Center on 30 Oct 2019 has 14 points
MacFarlane on 13 Nov 2019 has 16 points

further out

Janke on 18 Jan 20 has 18 points
B. Isackson on 21 May 20 has 21 points
D. Isackson on 21 May 20 has 18 points

RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - qwerty49 - 10-17-2019

Sorry if this has already been asked and answered.  Are these felony convictions? What restrictions are in place for convicted felons now? (ie gun ownership, etc). I believe voting rights have been restored in some states.

RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - 82lsju - 10-17-2019

(10-17-2019, 10:56 AM)qwerty49 Wrote:  Sorry if this has already been asked and answered.  Are these felony convictions? What restrictions are in place for convicted felons now? (ie gun ownership, etc). I believe voting rights have been restored in some states.

I am not a lawyer but I would guess a felony because

Quote:In the United States, where the felony/misdemeanor distinction is still widely applied, the federal government defines a felony as a crime punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of one year. If punishable by exactly one year or less, it is classified as a misdemeanor. The classification is based upon a crime's potential sentence, so a crime remains classified as a felony even if a defendant receives a sentence of less than a year of incarceration.[3] Individual states may classify crimes by other factors, such as seriousness or context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony

and the plea agreements all have something like

Quote:Defendant's base offense level is 7, because Defendant is pleading guilty to an offense of conviction that has a statutory maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years or more (USSG § 2B1.1(a)(1));

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/page/file/1152636/download

RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - 82lsju - 10-18-2019

Quote:A California real estate developer [Robert Flaxman] has been sentenced to one month in prison for paying $75,000 to cheat on his daughter's college entrance exam.

https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article236397443.html

the scoreboard


- Sartorio with 7 points, got probation
- Huffman with 9 points, got 2 weeks
- Klapper with 9 points, got 3 weeks
- Caplan with 11 points, got 1 month
- Flaxman with 11 points got 1 month
- G. Abbot with 13 points, got 1 month 
- M. Abbot with 13 points, got 1 month 
- Sloane with 14 points, got 4 months
- Semprevivo with 16 points, got 4 months
- Huneeus with 16 points, got 5 months (note: he was the first one sentenced who was involved in both the test cheating and bribery aspects of the case)

coming soon (at least the ones with plea agreements here https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/investig...ery-scheme , there are a few others with sentencing dates but no agreements)

Buckingham on 23 Oct 2019 has 11 points
Center on 30 Oct 2019 has 14 points
MacFarlane on 13 Nov 2019 has 16 points

further out

Janke on 18 Jan 20 has 18 points
B. Isackson on 21 May 20 has 21 points
D. Isackson on 21 May 20 has 18 points

RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - 82lsju - 10-18-2019

Quote:Manuel Henriquez, 55, a co-founder of Hercules Capital who stepped aside as chairman and chief executive after being charged in the case, is scheduled to enter a guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts on Monday, prosecutors said.

...

Henriquez’ wife, Elizabeth, 56, also is charged in the case, and represented by different lawyers. It was unclear whether she, too, would plead guilty.

...

prosecutors announced that a Laguna Beach investment management executive, Douglas Hodge, 61, also would plead guilty. He too is scheduled to enter a plea Monday.



https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/18/college-admissions-scandal-atherton-financier-to-plead-guilty/amp/

Quote:California food executive Michelle Janavs became the third parent in two days to join those pleading guilty in the biggest college admissions scam the U.S. has ever prosecuted.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-18/third-parent-in-two-days-changes-plea-to-guilty-in-college-scam?srnd=markets-vp

RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - 82lsju - 10-22-2019

updated with the new guilty pleas

the scoreboard

Parents

sentenced
coming soon 
(plea agreements here https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/investigations-college-admissions-and-testing-bribery-scheme , not all with sentencing date have plea agreements posted)


plea of not guilty
Non-parents

sentenced
coming soon
Plea of not guilty


RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - 82lsju - 10-22-2019

Quote: 
grand jury in Boston returned additional charges on Tuesday against 18 people [11 parents and 7 non-parents] tied to the "Varsity Blues" college admissions scandal.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/charges-filed-college-admissions-scandal-180124043--abc-news-topstories.html

RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - martyup - 10-23-2019

They had to "work the system."

Quote:The indictment filed Tuesday include new details in the government’s case against Loughlin and Giannulli.
According to the court documents, alleged mastermind William "Rick" Singer emailed the couple in August 2016 stating he needed a copy of their older daughter’s transcript and test scores “very soon while I create a coxswain profile for her. It would probably help to get a picture of her on an ERG in workout clothes like a real athlete too." Giannulli replied, "Fantastic. Will get all."
In March 2017, Singer’s accountant emailed a $200,000 invoice to Giannulli and Loughlin. Just weeks later, Giannulli forwarded the $200,000 invoice to his own accountant for payment. Along with the invoice, Giannulli wrote: “Good news my daughter … is in [U]SC … bad is I had to work the system,” according to the court documents.


RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - oldalum - 10-23-2019

[/quote]
Giannulli wrote: “Good news my daughter … is in [U]SC … bad is I had to work subvert the system,” [/quote]

there I fixed it for him

RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - BostonCard - 10-23-2019

(10-23-2019, 10:11 AM)oldalum Wrote:  

Giannulli wrote: “Good news my daughter … is in [U]SC … bad is I had to work subvert the system,” [/quote]

there I fixed it for him
[/quote]

I thought "my daughter ... is in [U]SC" was the bad news.  Worse news... you had to pay for the "honor".

BC

RE: Alleged large-scale test-cheating ring to get athletes into Stanford, other schools - CowboyIndian - 10-23-2019

(10-23-2019, 10:04 AM)martyup Wrote:  , Giannulli wrote: “Good news my daughter … is in [U]SC … bad is I had to work the system,” [/size][/color]
[/quote]

Am I alone in noticing his name is very nearly an anagram for Giuliani?