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Post by betty80 on Mar 12, 2019 16:44:57 GMT
I saw some of the press conference and they said no students or schools have been charged and that the schools will have to decide how to deal with the students. I don't think people buying their way into colleges is anything new.
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Post by Imperfect1 on Mar 12, 2019 18:24:49 GMT
Let's face it, many people with money will use their money to get pretty much whatever they want. I guess part of 'growing up' is learning that life is not fair. And it sure isn't. But, if their acts are illegal, then those people need to pay the same price that everyone else has to pay for their wrongdoing.
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Post by betty80 on Mar 12, 2019 18:29:22 GMT
It's sad if they didn't think their kids were smart enough to make it on their own or even with tutoring. If I were one of the students, I would be hurt. Some may not mind though. I don't know.
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Post by lonnie on Mar 12, 2019 19:30:15 GMT
Lori's daughter said in an interview that she didn't even want to go to college, but was heavily pressured to from her parents.
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Post by MissGriss on Mar 12, 2019 21:27:00 GMT
I can see how parents who have the means to do so could get so swept up in wanting their kids to go where they want that they'd fall into something like this. I think it's the kind of thing that some would not really process as being wrong and illegal because they'd be so focused on the end result. (ironically, it kind of sounds like something a Desparate Housewife would have done in the early days of that show). In all honesty, what surprises me is that they'd arrest so many people for it. I'm not saying I think they shouldn't be arrested. It just surprises me that legally there's enough to stand on to handle it that way. It seems a lot of times there are things that look wrong and feel wrong, but that you can't really find the legal path to prosecuting. I'm guessing that they went after the guy at the center of it all, and he said that he'd help entrap his clients if they'd give him a lighter sentence. How else would they have gotten the incriminating phone calls?
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Post by JosephD on Mar 12, 2019 21:41:43 GMT
I don't understand why anyone with the financial means to attempt to bribe a college to enroll their child would ever choose to do so. ![:huh](//storage.proboards.com/6943657/images/hWStivnrEdm0hfmcmWkL.gif) If you have that kind of cash at your disposal you could afford the finest private tutors money could buy. Why resort to doing something so unethical?
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Post by Cuddles on Mar 12, 2019 22:53:13 GMT
Sadly, Joseph, because it wasn't for their kids, it was for their own personal egos/images.
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Post by betty80 on Mar 12, 2019 23:03:51 GMT
FELICITY HUFFMAN ARRESTED BY FBI AGENTS WITH GUNS DRAWN"Felicity Huffman knew she was a target of the federal investigation into bribery in the college admissions process ... but she had no idea 7 feds would show up at her door Tuesday morning with guns drawn. Sources familiar with the arrest tell TMZ, 7 FBI agents showed up at Felicity's Hollywood Hills home at 6 AM and drew their weapons as they ordered Felicity to come out and surrender. We're told Felicity, her husband William H. Macy and their 2 daughters were asleep when the agents ordered her out. Our sources say she knew the arrest was looming and would have gladly surrendered on her own, but the feds saw it differently. An FBI source familiar with the arrest tells TMZ guns were drawn as a precaution. It's always left to the agents' discretion whether to draw a firearm during an arrest. The agents took Huffman to a federal building where she was processed by federal marshals. As we reported, Huffman was indicted for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. The indictment claims Huffman made a charitable contribution of $15,000 to participate in a college entrance exam cheating scheme on behalf of her eldest daughter. The indictment claims the daughter was given twice the amount of time to take the SAT as other students and the paid proctor agreed to secretly correct her answers afterward. The docs claim the girl got a 1420 score ... approximately 400 points over her PSAT."
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Post by FannyMare on Mar 12, 2019 23:09:41 GMT
FELICITY HUFFMAN ARRESTED BY FBI AGENTS WITH GUNS DRAWN"Felicity Huffman knew she was a target of the federal investigation into bribery in the college admissions process ... but she had no idea 7 feds would show up at her door Tuesday morning with guns drawn. Sources familiar with the arrest tell TMZ, 7 FBI agents showed up at Felicity's Hollywood Hills home at 6 AM and drew their weapons as they ordered Felicity to come out and surrender. We're told Felicity, her husband William H. Macy and their 2 daughters were asleep when the agents ordered her out. Our sources say she knew the arrest was looming and would have gladly surrendered on her own, but the feds saw it differently. An FBI source familiar with the arrest tells TMZ guns were drawn as a precaution. It's always left to the agents' discretion whether to draw a firearm during an arrest. The agents took Huffman to a federal building where she was processed by federal marshals. As we reported, Huffman was indicted for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. The indictment claims Huffman made a charitable contribution of $15,000 to participate in a college entrance exam cheating scheme on behalf of her eldest daughter. The indictment claims the daughter was given twice the amount of time to take the SAT as other students and the paid proctor agreed to secretly correct her answers afterward. The docs claim the girl got a 1420 score ... approximately 400 points over her PSAT." Wow! guns drawn?
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Post by betty80 on Mar 12, 2019 23:35:53 GMT
For some reason I am really interested in this story, more than other celebrity stories. I don't know why. Lori Loughlin gushed over daughter’s entrance to college on ‘Today’"Two years before Lori Loughlin was charged with bribing her children’s way into college, she gushed about sending her oldest child off to school on the “Today” show and how she was “preparing” for her departure. “So many parents watching I’m sure are going through this where they’re about to watch a child go off to college… are you preparing for it in any other way?” Hoda Kotb asked Loughlin as she sat beside her daughter Isabella whose grades were at or just below the “low end” of USC’s admission standards, court documents revealed Tuesday. “I think I’m in complete denial, I really am because when I think about it too much it will make me cry so I gotta stop,” Loughlin said, fanning away crocodile tears. “My husband keeps saying, ‘Lori you’re not gonna see her so just be prepared.’” In a veiled “clap back” to the alleged fraudster, “Today” tweeted out the interview around 5 p.m. Tuesday shortly after news broke that Loughlin was planning to turn herself in on the fraud charges. “See Lori Loughlin talk about sending her daughter to college in 2017 interview,” the tweet read. Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli are among dozens of people accused of bribing their kids way into top colleges in a massive admissions scandal that was announced Tuesday morning. The couple first got involved with the scheme in 2016 with their daughter Isabella, who appeared in the 2017 interview and discussed her hopes to study acting at the prestigious California school. Court documents allege Isabella’s grades didn’t cut USC’s standards and Giannulli wanted her to get into a school “other than [Arizona State University],” so he enlisted the help of William Singer, who is accused of running the scam. The dad allegedly sent a photo of Isabella on a rowing machine to smooth over the scheme to get her into USC as a crew coxswain even though she had never rowed competitively or even participated in the sport, court papers alleged. Representatives from Loughlin and her husband haven’t responded to requests for comment."
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Post by Critical on Mar 13, 2019 1:46:27 GMT
Lori's daughter said in an interview that she didn't even want to go to college, but was heavily pressured to from her parents. The parents should be ashamed of themselves, but the kids should be embarrassed too. Stories are claiming the kids didn't know but, sorry, how could you NOT know you didn't have the chops to get into an Ivy?
Lori Loughlin's daughter had to know she was, at the very least, taking a spot from a student who actually WANTED to go to USC when she didn't. It seems all she does is make YouTube vids and post on her SM accounts, promoting various products. Bad grammar in some of her posts too (so yeah, she could use a little higher education). ![:ohno](//storage.proboards.com/6943657/images/CmzmziJXIEoSdtEKIUiz.gif) And those girls never rowed crew? Like, never? What a bunch of idiots. It seems to me that if LL and her husband wanted their children to aspire to a college education, maybe they should have raised children to value something other than money, luxury goods, looks and the number of SM followers they have. It appears that all they've done is raise a self-involved, vapid and spoiled brat (don't know about their younger daughter, so that's just about the older one) who whines about how much she doesn't want to go to class and hates school. Also, did NO ONE think it was suspect when that kid's SAT scores (Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy's daughter) went up 400 points!? Even with SAT prep and tutoring, scores generally don't increase that much. Did they keep the score deliberately NOT high or is that as much as they thought they could get away with? I mean, getting her 1580 probably would have been too obvious, especially to people who are familiar with her, academically. If she scored 1020 on the PSAT, even a 1420 seems unrealistic. How embarrassing that now everyone knows she needed twice as much time as everyone else and her parents still had to bribe someone to change her test answers.
I wonder if LL will still be working at the Hallmark Channel after this. Not very family values, although they do love white washing things on that channel....
I'm sure there are MANY more that we don't know about. IMO, the SAT one is particularly bad. The College Board works hard to maintain its reputation, so this is major and could have far-reaching consequences. How many others who work for TCB have taken similar bribes without being caught?
It definitely sounds like some of the kids were in on it. I mean, if you don't play water polo and your dad arranges a photo shoot for you as a water polo player, how dumb do you have to be to not think something is up? LL and her husband paid $500K per daughter to get them into USC? Honestly, it's not THAT good of a school.
It seems to me that ALL of these parents could have saved themselves a whole lot of money (and you know, kept themselves from being arrested) if they'd spent some money on tutors for their kids when it mattered and taught them the importance of being a hard-working, ethical person rather than showing them that money can get you whatever you want. At least now they're all getting a lesson about consequences.
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Post by betty80 on Mar 13, 2019 2:35:23 GMT
I hope no one is low enough to threaten the kids. People seem to love to make threats on social media. I saw a list that was supposed to be a name of the adults on twitter. If they knew about it, they should also face the consequences. Of all the potential celebrity scandals, I was not expecting this. I figured celebrities/wealthy people could just donate enough money to the school to get their kids in. I had always heard rumors about that.
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Post by justCoz on Mar 13, 2019 4:19:30 GMT
Don't these celebrities also know enough people that even if their kids went to a non-ivy league school that they could still get good jobs after college?
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Post by Critical on Mar 13, 2019 5:17:17 GMT
^^^ I think it's also about saying, "My son is a freshman at Harvard." They care about the optics. It's all about how things seem rather than how things ARE. They don't say that their kid barely goes to class or is basically drunk all the time (or whatever else) because all that matters is that they're doing that at a prestigious university.
From all accounts, Lori Loughlin's daughter spends much of her time doing YouTube beauty/promotional vids and posting on her IG....oh and whining on Twitter about how she hates school and doesn't want to go to class. If I were her mother, I'd be furious AND embarrassed.
Years ago when I worked at an art museum, we had a school field trip come through, as they did all the time. This time though, one of the kids - and I think he was maybe 10-ish years old (possibly younger) - paid for stuff in the museum store with his own credit card. Like with his name on it. His father was a star on the city's NBA team. My first reaction was, "That kid's not getting a very good lesson about fiscal responsibility and the value of a dollar" and then I realized that his father is a big basketball star so he probably won't ever have to learn that lesson: the money will likely always be there. It was pretty shocking to see a little kid with his own credit card and I thought, "That kid probably has a bigger budget than I do." I'm sure he also had more money on him than I did at that moment! ![:lol](//storage.proboards.com/6943657/images/kZvKcZukVaJcAqJidzda.gif)
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Post by justCoz on Mar 13, 2019 5:39:25 GMT
Critical you're probably right about all that. That's very sad to me - that they care more about what it looks like to outsiders than what's best for their kids
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Post by Kao on Mar 13, 2019 14:57:06 GMT
Lori's daughter said in an interview that she didn't even want to go to college, but was heavily pressured to from her parents. The parents should be ashamed of themselves, but the kids should be embarrassed too. Stories are claiming the kids didn't know but, sorry, how could you NOT know you didn't have the chops to get into an Ivy?
u Lori Loughlin's daughter had to know she was, at the very least, taking a spot from a student who actally WANTED to go to USC when she didn't. It seems all she does is make YouTube vids and post on her SM accounts, promoting various products. Bad grammar in some of her posts too (so yeah, she could use a little higher education). ![:ohno](//storage.proboards.com/6943657/images/CmzmziJXIEoSdtEKIUiz.gif) And those girls never rowed crew? Like, never? What a bunch of idiots. It seems to me that if LL and her husband wanted their children to aspire to a college education, maybe they should have raised children to value something other than money, luxury goods, looks and the number of SM followers they have. It appears that all they've done is raise a self-involved, vapid and spoiled brat (don't know about their younger daughter, so that's just about the older one) who whines about how much she doesn't want to go to class and hates school. Also, did NO ONE think it was suspect when that kid's SAT scores (Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy's daughter) went up 400 points!? Even with SAT prep and tutoring, scores generally don't increase that much. Did they keep the score deliberately NOT high or is that as much as they thought they could get away with? I mean, getting her 1580 probably would have been too obvious, especially to people who are familiar with her, academically. If she scored 1020 on the PSAT, even a 1420 seems unrealistic. How embarrassing that now everyone knows she needed twice as much time as everyone else and her parents still had to bribe someone to change her test answers.
I wonder if LL will still be working at the Hallmark Channel after this. Not very family values, although they do love white washing things on that channel....
I'm sure there are MANY more that we don't know about. IMO, the SAT one is particularly bad. The College Board works hard to maintain its reputation, so this is major and could have far-reaching consequences. How many others who work for TCB have taken similar bribes without being caught?
It definitely sounds like some of the kids were in on it. I mean, if you don't play water polo and your dad arranges a photo shoot for you as a water polo player, how dumb do you have to be to not think something is up? LL and her husband paid $500K per daughter to get them into USC? Honestly, it's not THAT good of a school.
It seems to me that ALL of these parents could have saved themselves a whole lot of money (and you know, kept themselves from being arrested) if they'd spent some money on tutors for their kids when it mattered and taught them the importance of being a hard-working, ethical person rather than showing them that money can get you whatever you want. At least now they're all getting a lesson about consequences.
Exactly, and that's the worst part of it; some kid that really wanted to go and had decent grades got waitlisted (or not accepted at all) because of little Miss "I want to goo to school so I can party!"
This thing goes much further than bribes, or paying for a wing of the school so you kid can get in (still illegal, but an "acceptable" form of illegal). Some of the things they did was:
• Hire someone to take the SAT and ACT for them • Get fake Dr. statements saying the child was disabled so they could get a private test room and more time (so they could cheat more efficiently) • Paid off coaches and doctored up pictures to look like they belonged to athletic teams they didn't • Simply paid someone to take all the classes/tests for them, while the actual person pledged sororities/frats and partied • Paid off professors to give a passing grade, or pressured them with their jobs if they didn't give a decent grade
All of it is illegal, and heinous. And when I think of Black, Brown, Rural, and scholarship kids with wonderful grades and activities getting into Ivy colleges and basically being treated like they were given a handout/got there unfairly while these rich (and in a lot of cases not that bright) kids get in through subterfuge, lies, cheating and scams it makes me angry and disgusted as hell. There's no way these kids didn't know what their parents were doing, and they should be removed from the school because they got there through lies and trickery in the first place and WHAT THEY DID WAS ILLEGAL.
The one thing I don't agree with is the focus on Lori and Felecity when Doctors, lawyers, businesspeople, and others all used the schemes to get their kids into college. I want more people named, not just them. The saddest thing of all is that not one of these parents took into consideration what their child wanted. Not everyone is suited for college; some kids benefit greatly with going a lot later after they have some work and life experience under their belt, while others don't need to go at all. Lori's kid makes a ton of money off her instagram and certainly enjoys that more than college; they would have been better off (and saved 500k) had they just put college on the backburner and allowed her to do that.
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Post by betty80 on Mar 13, 2019 15:20:59 GMT
The parents should be ashamed of themselves, but the kids should be embarrassed too. Stories are claiming the kids didn't know but, sorry, how could you NOT know you didn't have the chops to get into an Ivy?
u Lori Loughlin's daughter had to know she was, at the very least, taking a spot from a student who actally WANTED to go to USC when she didn't. It seems all she does is make YouTube vids and post on her SM accounts, promoting various products. Bad grammar in some of her posts too (so yeah, she could use a little higher education). ![:ohno](//storage.proboards.com/6943657/images/CmzmziJXIEoSdtEKIUiz.gif) And those girls never rowed crew? Like, never? What a bunch of idiots. It seems to me that if LL and her husband wanted their children to aspire to a college education, maybe they should have raised children to value something other than money, luxury goods, looks and the number of SM followers they have. It appears that all they've done is raise a self-involved, vapid and spoiled brat (don't know about their younger daughter, so that's just about the older one) who whines about how much she doesn't want to go to class and hates school. Also, did NO ONE think it was suspect when that kid's SAT scores (Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy's daughter) went up 400 points!? Even with SAT prep and tutoring, scores generally don't increase that much. Did they keep the score deliberately NOT high or is that as much as they thought they could get away with? I mean, getting her 1580 probably would have been too obvious, especially to people who are familiar with her, academically. If she scored 1020 on the PSAT, even a 1420 seems unrealistic. How embarrassing that now everyone knows she needed twice as much time as everyone else and her parents still had to bribe someone to change her test answers.
I wonder if LL will still be working at the Hallmark Channel after this. Not very family values, although they do love white washing things on that channel....
I'm sure there are MANY more that we don't know about. IMO, the SAT one is particularly bad. The College Board works hard to maintain its reputation, so this is major and could have far-reaching consequences. How many others who work for TCB have taken similar bribes without being caught?
It definitely sounds like some of the kids were in on it. I mean, if you don't play water polo and your dad arranges a photo shoot for you as a water polo player, how dumb do you have to be to not think something is up? LL and her husband paid $500K per daughter to get them into USC? Honestly, it's not THAT good of a school.
It seems to me that ALL of these parents could have saved themselves a whole lot of money (and you know, kept themselves from being arrested) if they'd spent some money on tutors for their kids when it mattered and taught them the importance of being a hard-working, ethical person rather than showing them that money can get you whatever you want. At least now they're all getting a lesson about consequences.
Exactly, and that's the worst part of it; some kid that really wanted to go and had decent grades got waitlisted (or not accepted at all) because of little Miss "I want to goo to school so I can party!"
This thing goes much further than bribes, or paying for a wing of the school so you kid can get in (still illegal, but an "acceptable" form of illegal). Some of the things they did was:
• Hire someone to take the SAT and ACT for them • Get fake Dr. statements saying the child was disabled so they could get a private test room and more time (so they could cheat more efficiently) • Paid off coaches and doctored up pictures to look like they belonged to athletic teams they didn't • Simply paid someone to take all the classes/tests for them, while the actual person pledged sororities/frats and partied • Paid off professors to give a passing grade, or pressured them with their jobs if they didn't give a decent grade
All of it is illegal, and heinous. And when I think of Black, Brown, Rural, and scholarship kids with wonderful grades and activities getting into Ivy colleges and basically being treated like they were given a handout/got there unfairly while these rich (and in a lot of cases not that bright) kids get in through subterfuge, lies, cheating and scams it makes me angry and disgusted as hell. There's no way these kids didn't know what their parents were doing, and they should be removed from the school because they got there through lies and trickery in the first place and WHAT THEY DID WAS ILLEGAL.
The one thing I don't agree with is the focus on Lori and Felecity when Doctors, lawyers, businesspeople, and others all used the schemes to get their kids into college. I want more people named, not just them. The saddest thing of all is that not one of these parents took into consideration what their child wanted. Not everyone is suited for college; some kids benefit greatly with going a lot later after they have some work and life experience under their belt, while others don't need to go at all. Lori's kid makes a ton of money off her instagram and certainly enjoys that more than college; they would have been better off (and saved 500k) had they just put college on the backburner and allowed her to do that.
Well said.
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Post by Amy Lee on Mar 13, 2019 15:37:06 GMT
Critical, she's not my daughter and I'm furious and embarrassed. She came across as an airhead in that footage. Shes a result of today's "want to be an Instagram celebrity" culture. Do nothing but make videos.
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Post by FannyMare on Mar 13, 2019 15:41:42 GMT
Critical , she's not my daughter and I'm furious and embarrassed. She came across as an airhead in that footage. Shes a result of today's "want to be an Instagram celebrity" culture. Do nothing but make videos. Exactly!
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Post by libgirl2 on Mar 13, 2019 16:17:32 GMT
Critical , she's not my daughter and I'm furious and embarrassed. She came across as an airhead in that footage. Shes a result of today's "want to be an Instagram celebrity" culture. Do nothing but make videos. Exactly! I really hope that changes one day. I'm tired of these instagram/youtube celebrities.
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Post by FannyMare on Mar 13, 2019 17:00:17 GMT
I really hope that changes one day. I'm tired of these instagram/youtube celebrities. Influencers, that's a job? Lots of them doing it, only a few making a go of it. Personally, I don't spend a lot of time on you tube.
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Post by libgirl2 on Mar 13, 2019 17:07:55 GMT
I really hope that changes one day. I'm tired of these instagram/youtube celebrities. Influencers, that's a job? Lots of them doing it, only a few making a go of it. Personally, I don't spend a lot of time on you tube. Neither do I and I don't do Instagram either.
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Post by Amy Lee on Mar 13, 2019 17:37:42 GMT
I really hope that changes one day. I'm tired of these instagram/youtube celebrities. Influencers, that's a job? Lots of them doing it, only a few making a go of it. Personally, I don't spend a lot of time on you tube. It is big business for The Bachelor. It's mainly why they try to get on the show now. Get on the show, gain followers, hawk stuff.🙄🙄🙄
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Post by kiz on Mar 13, 2019 17:38:06 GMT
I love this tweet from Richard Dreyfuss' son, Ben.
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"I got into college the old fashioned way: by letting my father’s celebrity speak for itself."
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Post by Kao on Mar 13, 2019 19:50:12 GMT
I really hope that changes one day. I'm tired of these instagram/youtube celebrities. Influencers, that's a job? Lots of them doing it, only a few making a go of it. Personally, I don't spend a lot of time on you tube. There's a LOT of money to be made off Instagram if you have enough followers. Companies will basically give you money AND freebies to promote their stuff. Just mentioning that you're using a particular product/service can easily net you anywhere from 10-100k A POST depending on who you are and how big your audience is. There's been some regulation in that you have to disclosed whether a product is sponsored by someone by having the words "sponsored by" or "ad" somewhere in the post, but you can still make money.
For example, there's this street fashion photographer that I've followed since his blogging days (he would photograph people with good fashion sense on the street) is on Instagram now and the things he gets thrown at him just for mentioning the company/service and "sponsored" in the post header is unreal. He has so many sponsored posts now that unfortunately the street photography that he's famous for has unfortunately taken a backburner. Some of the things he's gotten is:
• Free entry to fashion shows in NY, Paris, Italy, London, etc (because he takes pics/video of the shows, which then go to his followers)
• Free first-class airfare to those cities to cover the shows • Free beautiful hotel suites (that he takes pics of) • Free clothes/shoes/accessories from high-end stores • Dining out at expensive restaurants
And these are just some of the things! I have no idea how much he's getting paid but he has loads of followers and I'm sure it's in the tens of thousands each time he mentions a company/service. I'm glad he's doing extremely well now but miss the old days when the bulk of his pictures were just ordinary people dressed fabulously, LOL.
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Post by momrek06 on Mar 13, 2019 19:52:42 GMT
As the mother of two college grads as well as both of them with advanced degrees THIS totally disgusts me. DISGUSTS me.
My sons busted their arses on a daily basis to make sure that the did well for themselves as well as for hubby and I. They knew they wanted college by junior high so they made sure they made themselves well rounded for the colleges they were applying to.
I say BRING BACK THE COLLEGE INTERVIEW. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Colleges stopped doing that about 15 years ago.
A student sitting down with an Admissions officer in these prestigious colleges (and all colleges) would SMELL in a heart beat whether a student was a candidate for their college.
I saw on the news that YouTube video of Loughlin’s daughter.........there is NO WAY anyone in Amissions at USC would give her a nod had they had a chance to interview her. The last thing on her mind was attending school. She actually is quoted as saying “it’s my parents that want me to do this” ....... ugh
BRING BACK THE COLLEGE INTERVIEW!!!!!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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Post by FannyMare on Mar 13, 2019 20:02:52 GMT
Oh I dont doubt it, but some of the really shouldn't give up their jobs, oops, this is their day job ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/6943657/images/QjUcyjYOkxRIqUzeaatQ.gif)
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Post by Kao on Mar 13, 2019 20:15:52 GMT
What kills me is how sophisticated the scams are. I was watching one of those Border Patrol shows on Netflix and they stopped this young girl because she didn't seem to have set plans on where she was going in the country. They found 4 different passports with her picture but different names on it. After they looked thru her phone it was determined that she was taking college entrance exams for the kids on the passports. In her phone texts she was telling the parents to wire her half the money upfront, and to send the rest once she finished the test. Apparently you need ID to take the tests to show identity, and that's what the passports were for. Needless to say they didn't let her in the country.
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Post by FannyMare on Mar 13, 2019 20:20:50 GMT
What kills me is how sophisticated the scams are. I was watching one of those Border Patrol shows on Netflix and they stopped this young girl because she didn't seem to have set plans on where she was going in the country. They found 4 different passports with her picture but different names on it. After they looked thru her phone it was determined that she was taking college entrance exams for the kids on the passports. In her phone texts she was telling the parents to wire her half the money upfront, and to send the rest once she finished the test. Apparently you need ID to take the tests to show identity, and that's what the passports were for. Needless to say they didn't let her in the country. Really..wow. I ;ove that show Btw..
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Post by libgirl2 on Mar 13, 2019 20:49:36 GMT
What kills me is how sophisticated the scams are. I was watching one of those Border Patrol shows on Netflix and they stopped this young girl because she didn't seem to have set plans on where she was going in the country. They found 4 different passports with her picture but different names on it. After they looked thru her phone it was determined that she was taking college entrance exams for the kids on the passports. In her phone texts she was telling the parents to wire her half the money upfront, and to send the rest once she finished the test. Apparently you need ID to take the tests to show identity, and that's what the passports were for. Needless to say they didn't let her in the country. Wow
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