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The allegation against Stanford's sailing coach, John Vandemoer, is that he accepted donations to the sailing program in exchange for designating certain applicants as sailing recruits for admissions purposes. It is alleged that the applicants weren't actually competitive sailors, but submitted fake profiles fabricating sailing credentials. The allegations describe two cases in which this happened. One of the applicants was admitted but did not enroll. Another student didn't end up applying. So none of the phony sailors actually enrolled. Nevertheless, the sailing program apparently kept donations in the amount of $270,000.

https://www.justice.gov/file/1142906/download

Terry, is that true?  The way I interpreted it, he deferred his "application", not admission, which I read on line #11:

11. In or about May 2018, after Stanford Applicant 1 deferred his application to Stanford for one year. Singer mailed a payment of $110,000 from one of the KWF charitable accounts to the Stanford sailing program in exchange for VANDEMOER's agreement to designate Stanford Applicant 1 as a sailing recruit in the following year's recruitment cycle. 

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The other reason I doubt he was admitted is that "he decided to attend another university".  This brings me back to my high school days.  There was a guy in the class ahead of me who won a small award, and our HS newspaper said he was aiming for Stanford or UCLA.  I knew him - he had neither the test scores or the grades for Stanford.  My buddy in HS (who ended up at MIT) asked his parents, and they replied, "Oh, he got into Stanford, but he wanted to go to UCLA instead."  I knew that was bull.

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The allegation against Stanford's sailing coach, John Vandemoer, is that he accepted donations to the sailing program in exchange for designating certain applicants as sailing recruits for admissions purposes. It is alleged that the applicants weren't actually competitive sailors, but submitted fake profiles fabricating sailing credentials. The allegations describe two cases in which this happened. One of the applicants was admitted but did not enroll. Another student didn't end up applying. So none of the phony sailors actually enrolled. Nevertheless, the sailing program apparently kept donations in the amount of $270,000.

https://www.justice.gov/file/1142906/download

Terry, is that true?  The way I interpreted it, he deferred his "application", not admission, which I read on line #11:

11. In or about May 2018, after Stanford Applicant 1 deferred his application to Stanford for one year. Singer mailed a payment of $110,000 from one of the KWF charitable accounts to the Stanford sailing program in exchange for VANDEMOER's agreement to designate Stanford Applicant 1 as a sailing recruit in the following year's recruitment cycle. 

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The other reason I doubt he was admitted is that "he decided to attend another university".  This brings me back to my high school days.  There was a guy in the class ahead of me who won a small award, and our HS newspaper said he was aiming for Stanford or UCLA.  I knew him - he had neither the test scores or the grades for Stanford.  My buddy in HS (who ended up at MIT) asked his parents, and they replied, "Oh, he got into Stanford, but he wanted to go to UCLA instead."  I knew that was bull.