Thread by @JonBoeckenstedt

Thread: How three organizations can come together with America's colleges to respond to #VarsityBlues to do the right thing, even at their peril.

I'm looking at you, @ACT @CollegeBoaard and @NSClearinghouse

My presumptions: 1) Since Singer was a cooperating witness, he's turned over his client database and/or records of his foundation to see who made "contributions" since its inception.

Presumption 2) Since we know the two testing centers compromised, it would not be horribly difficult to find students who tested there with extended or unlimited time, and who traveled some distance to test, and who scored at or above the 80th percentile, for instance.

This would be the baseline. I'm sure additional forensics and/or matching the two lists could easily turn up a solid group of likely fraudulent scores. That list can be crossed with the Clearinghouse database to see where those students enrolled.

It would then be possible to notify those colleges to investigate or take action. That's important because some colleges take scores off a transcript, and there is no record of sending an official score.

And that's where it gets interesting, I think:

In support of academic integrity, do colleges expel currently enrolled students and perhaps rescind degrees of summa cum laude graduates? Or do they admit that the scores are pretty meaningless in the whole scope of things?

Good idea, or folly? Possible, probable, or unlikely? Willing to let it slide this time, or afraid of fighting for years in court with people who didn't think twice about writing a $500K check to get a child into an "elite" institution? Tell me.

Oh, and #EMChat

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