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Tim Wise
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1/ What is especially enraging about this #CollegeCheatingScandal is that, as the father of a HS junior, taking tests and looking at colleges, I know how cut throat this stuff is...it's ridiculous...
2/ Our oldest daughter is an excellent student and has really good test scores (so clearly she was switched in the hospital cuz neither her mom nor I can claim that), but the fact is, it's a crap shoot and we've told her that...
3/ Most selective colleges turn away enough highly qualified students to fill out their freshman classes 3x over...so we prepare our daughter for the reality of the situation. She could get in to all, some or none of her top choice schools...
4/ But as decent parents, we also make clear her life will not be defined by where she goes to college. These parents who think Ivy League education is the only valid education, or Stanford, are idiots who, in a perfect world, wouldn't have been allowed to procreate...
5/ Their elitism is the problem in this country and the world...stop living vicariously through your kids, and taking their victories or failures as your own...let them live their lives. They might not even want your help (our daughter has made clear she wants us out of it)...
6/ ...and I appreciate that. Your children are not extensions of you. They are independent beings who need to find their own way, and if you don't get that you shouldn't be a parent...
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Tim Wise
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1/ Now, for a thread about #MyWhitePrivilege that is separate from the 3 tweets I already posted regarding encounters with law enforcement. Let's start in the present day and work backwards shall we, so as to see the trajectory of how white privilege works...
2/ So, my wife and I have these two amazing daughters. If I never meet my wife however, they don't exist, obviously. And I only met my wife because I happened to move back to Nashville from New Orleans at the precise time I moved back (August, 1996). Because...
3/ If I move back any earlier or later, the two women who were looking for a roommate (one of whom introduced me to my wife) would have found another roomie, or I would have found a place to live before they needed one, and as such, we wouldn't have met...
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Tim Wise
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Saying the dismissal of charges against #JussieSmollett proves white privilege is a myth is like saying your 89-year old aunt who's been smoking 70 years and doesn't even cough proves cigarettes don't cause cancer. Anecdote, I have some quantitative data I'd like you to meet
Saying the dismissal of charges against #JussieSmollett proves white privilege is a myth is like saying the fact that Madam CJ Walker became a millionaire in 1911 proves there was no racism or sexism even then. Anecdote, I have some quantitative data I'd like you to meet...
Saying the dismissal of charges against #JussieSmollett proves white privilege is a myth is like pointing to 50 Cent who's been shot like 7 times, and saying "see bullets won't kill you after all..." Anecdote, I have some quantitative data I'd like you to meet...
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Tim Wise
@timjacobwise
Spot on...for all the talk of "reverse discrimination" and unfairness against white people, I have yet to find the white person who actually would want to change places, and experience life as black folks do...
and the only comeback I've ever heard 2 this is "well, I wish I'd been black when I applied to Harvard, Yale, etc"...but that's absurd. Even if we presume that diversity goals give a slight per capita edge to POC at the point of admissions, a few things are worth noting...
...first, that one would not have been black only on the day they applied to college; i.e., these whites wishing they'd been black when they sent in their apps would have been black their whole lives. They wold not be the same people they are now just with dark skin...
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Charles V Payne
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#CollegeCheatingScandal
My thoughts
I’ve said for a long time there is an amazing societal convergence that sees the peak of materialism, elitism, and need to be recognized all at the same time.
Anything that can add to the façade of prestige and importance from photos in front of private jets to post on Instagram to the surge of plastic surgery procedures including 200,000 teens last year.
And many parents have gotten into the action which might explain their fixation on getting their children into an Ivy League school at any cost. Anyone can get a lift or a tuck but consider 16 US presidents including the last five attended an Ivy League school.
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Stephen Black
@stephenablack
This #CollegeCheatingScandal... I have thoughts.

As an alum, I conducted Harvard admissions interviews for almost a decade.

This is also my business.

My clients come to me for application help, from school selection to essay editing.

The system is rigged, and I am part of it.
I have worked in admissions consulting for 8 years. I won't be working in it for much longer.

All of my clients except one have been in the top economic bracket.

For 6 years, I worked for a company with international clientele. Most of the kids were from China and South Korea.
When I set out to start my own operation, it was going to be a nonprofit.

I paired with an underperforming school district, and I was going to work with grades 6-11 on college readiness and grade 12 on application prep.

Life happened. The superintendent got cancer.
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Kurt Eichenwald
@kurteichenwald
1. If you want your blood boiling, read this FBI affidavit in the #CollegeCheatingScandal. A few top excerpts to follow....

justice.gov/file/1142876/d…
2....I think one of the big things here is that parents are talking about how their rich kids are too stupid to succeed on their own, and the kids don't know this is being done for them....
3...the lead guy said he had done this 761 times. For at least seven elite schools...
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Lynnette KhalfaniCox
@themoneycoach
I read the 204-page affidavit filed in the #CollegeCheatingScandal.

An FBI agent laid out exactly what happened. Here's a summary:

1. This college bribery scam started in 2001 and has NOT YET ENDED.

It is described as "continuing through the present."
2. The fraud involved 3 parts:

- bribing SAT/ACT test administrators to facilitate cheating on those exams;

- bribing varsity coaches & administrators at top universities to get students deemed as "recruited" athletes;

- masking the bribes as tax-deductible charity donations
3. The FBI has a mountain of evidence -- bank records, e-mails, phone records, wiretaps, consensual recordings + witnesses, etc. -- but it is not yet revealing all it knows.

The agent's affidavit said she is disclosing "only those facts sufficient to
establish probable cause."
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@Freeyourmindkid
I remember in high school they would have these events where colleges would come to our schools and talk to us about their schools. One day I decided to go to an event for either Emory or UGA (can't remember which one) and as soon as I walked in one of

#CollegeCheatingScandal
The white girls in the gifted program looks at me and goes, "What are you doing here?" I have never forgotten that shit and I never will, especially now that all of these rich ass cheating white folks are being exposed.
#CollegeCheatingScandal
White girl ***
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James S Murphy
@James_S_Murphy
They bribed proctors at 2 high schools--a private HS in LA and a public in Houston--and he either told the proctors how to correct the exam after the test or sometimes he flew in and took the test himself.
More on how they worked this scam: they'd get the family to secure (the very rare) extension (e.g., double time) that let the kid take the test over two days, typically by themselves, at school. Then they'd make up a reason to travel to Houston or LA and take the exam there.
Riddell would proctor or correct or take the exam himself for the clients who paid between $10k-$75k. The kids didn't know about the cheating--as seen in this comment by Singer to a client.
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