[Poly81]

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....

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-un...res-family

from the propublica article

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

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/...j-stanford

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Can somebody recap the points system in use here?

see post 315 in this thread

[Poly81]

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....

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-un...res-family

from the propublica article

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

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/...j-stanford

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Can somebody recap the points system in use here?

see post 315 in this thread