Salovey: ​“Profoundly Dismayed, Disturbed”

They prefer to receive donations directly, so as to ensure proper acceptance and integration of Yale legacy progeny.

Like Salovey doesn't know the rich have an in when they want it. If you have enough $$ in this world, you can buy a school or win a case in court. We all know this. And frankly I dont blame the parents for trying to give their own children a leg up in this rotten world.

Blah Blah Blah. The only crime is that they got caught. How else have these portfolios reached billions of dollars? The wealthy will simply figure out another way to cheat society and maintain their neck hold on the working class. Out right disgusting....nothing will happen to any of those people except book deals and TV rights!

Its too bad that the repercussions of these very poor decisions and lazy shortcuts by these ultra wealthy parents are going to fall upon their kids. There's no way that they could pull this off without the complicity of the kids but the fact that they encouraged them to perpetuate this fraud shows reprehensible parenting.

Those who are dismayed by this scandal might get a chuckle out of the following:

https://humoroutcasts.com/2019/forsake-all-evil-finding-a-better-way-to-unlock-the-golden-doors-of-college/

Salovey is disturbed that the biases Yale seeks to build into its admissions preferences were distorted. Yale openly puts a thumb on the scale for various groups: star athletes, legacies, members of underrepresented racial or ethnic groups, and children and grandchildren of major donors. Paul Bass's daughter would have gotten a preference, but not as much as a child of Ed or Lee Bass.
robn: These parents are wealthy, but not uber wealthy. They don't have Bass or Schwartzman money for a back door ticket as a development admit. So, they bribe a coach to give them a side door ticket.
Salovey can take comfort in the fact that the side door ticket price for Yale was higher than any other school, even higher-ranked Stanford. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if this girl had perfect grades and board scores. But, particularly as an Asian, she needed something more to stand out.

[Paul: Note: I am not a relation of the Bass family that donates to Yale. I think 1644 is referring to the fact that I attended Yale, and the presumption that children of alumni get a preference.]

I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in Casablanca! (takes winnings on his way out the door)

1644,

Sure Schwartzman makes about $125M a year but I guess I'm old fashioned thinking that (outside of the Forbes 40) people making 8 figures/yr are still ultra rich.

Paul: Yes, that's exactly what I meant. Your alma mater and income (990) are openly available on the internet, so I am pretty sure that if the Bass Library is named after you, it was because of your literary achievements, not your donations. For those not aware, the other Bass family has given multi-millions to Yale, including for renovations of Cross Campus Library, now called Bass Library. Sadly, I do believe it is named after the rich Basses, rather than to honor Paul for his great journalism.

[Paul: Thank you! I did once try to get one of them, a Yale corporation member, on the phone for a story by saying, "It's Paul ... Paul <em>Bass</em>!" But it didn't work.]

robn: How quaint, like me being surprised when my nephew looks at his $100 birthday gift in the disparaging way I looked at Grandma's $5. (Greedy bastard!). In the Bay Area, folks making $250K will tell you they are barely getting by, folks making seven figures will say they are doing okay. People making eight might admit to being rich. In any case, I doubt Macy and Huffman make eight figures. They haven't done much recently. At least one of these parent sets had to take out a home equity loan to pay the bribe. It may have been the Yale couple. They had a bit of buyers' remorse when the had to keep sending $200K "donations" to the ring leader.

Interesting. Robn always has a word of criticism for working people. Yet he defends the cheating elite.

LOL. I wonder if every child/student of celebrity, politician (because they feel they are celebrities) and rich mommy and daddy's entry to a top school will be questioned and stereotyped as a ...??? What would be the opposite of Affirmative Action students?

uhhhhmmm...Not sure when I was defending the elite. More like the opposite.

"Its too bad that the repercussions of these very poor decisions and lazy shortcuts by these ultra wealthy parents are going to fall upon their kids."

Elite kids cheat and Robn shows empathy. Working people sneeze and Robn has criticism.

NHI commenter comments on bad parenting and BEVHILLS pulls out a microscope to find some perceived slight. BEVHILLS must have nothing to do.

This is certainly not a real surprise to anyone. The surprise is that the new was made public! To connect to other NHI stories-- can we all remember that these folks are the ones that New Haven is always groveling to for ideas and studies and "experts" to save our town and our schools. They rise up to the highest levels of power because of the sheepskin they bought at Ivy Leagues. ( And it's not just Yale) Do you really want people with these kinds of values and ethics to tell us how to school our children and how to make NH a success? Our residents, who have stayed here ; who have dedication and a sense of morality and honor, can do much better than that!

robn: In many cases, the students were not aware of the cheating, and certainly not the extent of it. There are some comical conversations in the legal records such as : "Mom, why do does my advisor think I am on the track team?" Otherwise, the students were at best willfully stupid in the abuse of IDEA and ADA provisions (which subvert meritocracy anyway), but were rarely aware that someone else was correcting their answers after they submitted them. Those interested in informing themselves of the facts of this scheme should click on the links to the complaints and indictments found at the bottom of this page:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/investigations-college-admissions-and-testing-bribery-scheme

From PS:
"There is strong reason to believe Rudy Meredith provided fraudulent athletic endorsements to two applicants; one was denied admission despite the endorsement, and the other was admitted and is attending Yale. Federal privacy law and Yale policy prevents Yale from revealing the name of either individual to the public."


The kid that didn't get in may have been the child of the stock manipulator who blew the lid on the scheme. If so, if not clear if the student wasn't admitted because the scheme was blown, or because, as PS implies, even with the endorsement, she didn't make the cut.