College Admissions Scandal

     If you were hoping that more celebrities would be in trouble besides Jussie Smollett than you're in luck. Also, good news if you're a big fan of the CNBC show American Greed like me, they have another story idea. It seems that American Greed has a lot of material to cover recently with Billy Mcfarlane/Fyre Festival, Elizabeth Holmes, and now this College Admissions scandal that involves Felicity Huffman (and not her husband William H Macy for some reason) and Lori Loughlin aka Aunt Becky from the Full House shows (and yes I do mean shows) and her husband (not named Jesse). Also, I'm guessing Loughlin won't be involved with the 90210 second reboot (she was a parent in the first reboot). Before I make more comments about Full House/Fuller House/90210 I better summarize this whole college admission scandal that's been breaking news and busted over 50 people in an FBI operation called Varsity Blues (yes named after the James Ver Der Beek movie which turned 20 this year). Hopefully, this will be fixed by the time people who are my age group who has with kids will have to worry less about sending their kids to college (OK one can only hope). 33 wealthy parents paid William "Rick" Singer 25 million dollars in a seven-year period to get their kids to top colleges like Yale, USC, UCLA, Stanford, Georgetown, Wake Forest, University of Texas, and the University of San Diego. The parents paid him through his nonprofit organization Key Worldwide Foundation so they could get a deduction. It could be more people busted because Singer admitted that he helped more than 750 families. Anyone surprised that Harvard and other Ivy League schools weren't involved? Also, no Florida schools on the list, I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing or just mixed. One hand no embarrassment being involved in this scandal though really no rich parents want to send their kids to a Florida college? However, there is a Florida connection (of course there is). One of the people busted was Mark Riddell, who was a director at the IMG Academy was one of the stand-in test takers. I'm pretty sure these 33 parents aren't the only ones to bribe a school or someone to get their kid to a top school, they got caught. I know it's wrong to pay off a school or individual regardless if those wealthy parents got caught or not. People should get in on their own merits and not because they have rich parents. There were two methods in the scam, the first one being cheating on the SAT or ACT test. Either the kids took the test in a controlled environment in a test site that control by Singer and results were altered or someone just took the test for them. This was the method that Huffman used for her oldest daughter. The second was Singer paying off a coach of a sport like soccer or rowing in one of the schools listed to get the kids in and most of the time if not all the time that those kids never played the sport. This was the method that Aunt Becky chose to get both of her daughters to USC (women's rowing despite the facts her daughters never participled in the sport). She and her husband fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli paid half a million dollars for their daughters to go to USC. I wonder how much it cost Uncle Jesse and Aunt Becky to send Nicky and Alex to college and did they bribe anyone to make that happen? I read somewhere that their daughters (Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose) didn't really want to go to USC, they actually wanted to go to Arizona State mostly because it's known for being a party school, they were average students at best in high school. Their parents had other ideas, their dad was caught saying that his daughters should attend anywhere but ASU which he got slammed by Arizona native Meghan McCain who defended ASU where they have the McCain Institute. If you're wondering McCain went to Columbia. Also, I will also defend ASU because my sister considered ASU and Northern Arizona before staying in state and if my dad lived in Arizona when I was in high school I would have considered ASU. I only consider university in state (Florida) and I ended in Hillsborough Community College (oh well). Sad part about this is how many of the students involved in this case actually wanted to go to school their parents wanted them? I think it was status for some of those parents. Plus there are people who actually wanted to go to those places and busted their asses to get in. Personally I think the kid should have the right to pick a college they want to go to and not their parents. Ok you can make a case that the parents should pick because they are paying it however unless they're to hang out with their kids in college all four years or however long it will take the kid should pick. My sister was able to pick what school she wanted. The only restriction I had was how many schools to apply to. Now with the scandal, the parents are facing criminal charges and their kids are in danger of being kick out of their school (maybe some are lucky because they probably graduated now especially since this started in 2011). Oilvia Jade and Isabella Rose Giannulli have already withdrew from USC and more than likely their futures are screwed. OK maybe that's too soon to say though will another school take a chance on them? Probably not anytime soon and I doubt ASU will take them in (OK I could be wrong there). Also, it affected Olivia Jade's Social Media Influencer career (yes it's a thing). She posted videos on makeup tips and I'm guessing she got money from it and got sponsorships. After the scandal broke, Sephora ended their deal from Olivia Jade which I disagree with because again we don't know if any of the kids knew. Maybe some did but we don't know for sure. I think Sephora should have waited, put a hold on the deal, and investigating themselves before firing her. Now Lori Loughlin giving fired from Hallmark Channel and possibly from Fuller House I agreed with. Also, I'm sure it's going to hurt to see their parents going to prison (OK probably depending how hard the Department of Justice drops the hammers). The parents not only hurt themselves but their kids as well. For What? Status? Was it worth it?