College Entrance Scam includes former Yale Women's Soccer Coach

I know it hurts that the emails you were hoping would support your conspiracy theory don't exist, and there isn't any evidence UCLA knew anything or that Cromwell took money or did anything other than a favor for a colleague, so let me help you out. Since there isn't any evidence to support anything you're saying, I recommend you next argue that the conspiracy was so conspiratorial, so deep state-ish, so profoundly evil, that all the conspirators knew not to commit anything to writing or, worse, UCLA burned all the computers, phones and servers and is now hiding behind an army of lawyers. In other words, the mere fact that there is no evidence is actually the best evidence of all.

Or maybe those who deserved to get fired and criminally prosecuted did. Maybe, just maybe, UCLA responded perfectly to the fraud, including not giving a s**t what 2-3 nobodies at an online youth soccer forum think. You should be like the dude who's boycotting UCLA over this and sending his daughter to pristine Georgetown, a college funded by the slave trade, run by an organization that still protects child molesters and rapists, and had 12x as many kids admitted as part of the same scandal. Go Hoyas!
Fake News.
 
Interesting article on entrance into Ivy League Schools for Athletes in Pay to Play Sports

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...ersity-and-scandal-sports-recruitment/599248/

Totally agree with the article even though it doesn’t cite soccer as a true “rich kid” sport. Even so, nobody can deny we have a nice little racket going on here. And yes I am guilty as charged. I am definitely playing the “game” to see if it can help my dd’s get in to their college of choice. I’m not snitching anytime soon, but we can’t deny that the current system only helps girls who play club, which in turn is not available to a lot of kids.
 
Totally agree with the article even though it doesn’t cite soccer as a true “rich kid” sport. Even so, nobody can deny we have a nice little racket going on here. And yes I am guilty as charged. I am definitely playing the “game” to see if it can help my dd’s get in to their college of choice. I’m not snitching anytime soon, but we can’t deny that the current system only helps girls who play club, which in turn is not available to a lot of kids.

Yeah, but do you really think it’s racial? Or just white people are willing to spend the time and money to pursue it? If the argument was there aren’t as many blacks, Hispanics or asians trying out for those sports, would those applicants get preference?
 
Yeah, but do you really think it’s racial? Or just white people are willing to spend the time and money to pursue it? If the argument was there aren’t as many blacks, Hispanics or asians trying out for those sports, would those applicants get preference?
The article’s from The Atlantic, so it’s basically trash. Race bait is their focus genre.
 
Yeah, but do you really think it’s racial? Or just white people are willing to spend the time and money to pursue it? If the argument was there aren’t as many blacks, Hispanics or asians trying out for those sports, would those applicants get preference?

Who said anything about racial?? It’s about SES and if you have the money for it, you have access to it. I don’t quite understand your post (i.e. “getting preference.”).
 
Who said anything about racial?? It’s about SES and if you have the money for it, you have access to it. I don’t quite understand your post (i.e. “getting preference.”).

The article keeps referencing “rich white applicants” accusing Harvard of intentionally giving preference by race when it comes to athletics - sounds pretty racial to me.

“Harvard does give preferential treatment to affluent white applicants”
 
What’s trash about it? Is what they are saying not true.
“While there is nothing morally wrong with enjoying a game of catch in a pool, participation in these activities has come to play a subtle, yet ludicrously powerful, role in the reproduction of elite status in the United States.”

Cultural bias at it’s finest. Enjoy....
 
The article keeps referencing “rich white applicants” accusing Harvard of intentionally giving preference by race when it comes to athletics - sounds pretty racial to me.

“Harvard does give preferential treatment to affluent white applicants”

Read the article, it says legacy and athletics primarily benefit white students. They provide the stats, so if those stats are valid then it’s just stating facts. You’re reading way too much into it.
 
“While there is nothing morally wrong with enjoying a game of catch in a pool, participation in these activities has come to play a subtle, yet ludicrously powerful, role in the reproduction of elite status in the United States.”

Cultural bias at it’s finest. Enjoy....

I’ll give you that this paragraph may show some bias (“catch in the pool” “ludicrously powerful”), but I’m focusing on the stats.
 
Totally agree with the article even though it doesn’t cite soccer as a true “rich kid” sport. Even so, nobody can deny we have a nice little racket going on here. And yes I am guilty as charged. I am definitely playing the “game” to see if it can help my dd’s get in to their college of choice. I’m not snitching anytime soon, but we can’t deny that the current system only helps girls who play club, which in turn is not available to a lot of kids.
"Being honest with ones self is the beginning of change" 99.5% want one thing, college access. The 20,000 girls that play in Spain play for other reasons. This is big time and I mean big time biz in USA. I'm not sure how many kids get free rides in the DA/ECNL, but I don't think it's as much as I originally thought. Folks who truly can't afford the tuition, team fees, per diems, fundraising, air travel, car travel, gas, tolls, tires and food get priced out. Most low to upper middle class families in OC both parents usually have to work or have a single mom or dad trying to pay all the bills. I have paid all my dues and fees since my baby goat was 7 (Except for half a season back in 2016:) and can truly see I paid a little too much and over extended our families budget to help my dd reach her dreams. Remember, Scholarship does not equal Full Ride :)
 
Very few players get a full ride scholarship whether you are in the DA or other. Some of those strong DA players get a spot on a team and no money unless through financial aid
 
The article keeps referencing “rich white applicants” accusing Harvard of intentionally giving preference by race when it comes to athletics - sounds pretty racial to me.

“Harvard does give preferential treatment to affluent white applicants”
@Justus don’t worry, anytime Supermodel thinks he sees the word “white” it sets a fighting bell off in his head, even when it is imaginary.
 
Well well another twist to this now:


"The college admissions scandal (or the Varsity Blues scandal) added a new chapter last week as former UCLA Men’s Soccer head coach Jorge Salcedo’s attorney begin to draw the framework of his argument in the trial and it could spell disaster for his old employer. Salcedo alleges in the motion that UCLA was aware of the admissions scandal in 2014 after a compliance review into the athletics department.

“The charges reflect the government’s fundamental misunderstanding of how UCLA has strategically used its student-athlete admissions process as a vehicle to raise funds to pay for its many expensive and underfunded athletic programs,” Salcedo’s attorneys wrote in the motion. “UCLA’s own internal documents reveal that, for many years, its Athletic Department has facilitated the admission of unqualified applicants—students who do not meet UCLA’s rigorous academic or athletics standards—through the student-athlete admissions process in exchange for huge “donations” by the students’ wealthy parents.”

Salcedo was one of the coaches indicted in March of 2019 as part of the large sweeping admissions scheme that involved numerous universities across the country. He was the only UCLA coach named in the indictment. But he was not the only soccer coach involved. Former USC head coach Ali Khosroshahin pled guilty to his involvement in the admissions scandal in June. His former assistant coach Laura Janke also pled guilty for her involvement.

Salcedo’s motion last week sought pre-trial subpoenas for UCLA and the UC Regents. As he alleges the school’s compliance office investigated the admissions practice of the athletics department five years ago and discovered it was a readily accepted standard for the benefit at higher-ups in the athletics department and university.

“Until this prosecution, UCLA has been able to keep its roster-spot-for-money admissions practice under wraps, hidden from the public. But the practice has been no secret at UCLA. Five years ago, UCLA’s Compliance Office was forced to review the Athletic Department’s admissions and fundraising tactics in response to a parent’s complaint concerning the revocation of her daughter’s admission.”

The motion, which can be read in full, continues to lay out the evidence regarding that internal investigation.

“Having uncovered a mountain of damning evidence, the Compliance Office concluded that UCLA’s use of athletic team roster slots to raise funds violated Policy 2202 of UCLA’s governing body, the University of California Board of Regents (“UC Regents”). Policy 2202, titled “Policy Barring Development Considerations from Influencing Admission Decisions,” prohibits admission decisions based on financial benefits to the University. The Compliance Office, however, was careful to protect top echelon members of the Athletic Department, while heaping all of the blame on the coaches’ shoulders.”

Depending on what the subpoena reveals, this could be a difficult spell for UCLA’s athletic department, which is already in the news for reporting a massive deficit in 2019. "
 
Yeah, but do you really think it’s racial? Or just white people are willing to spend the time and money to pursue it? If the argument was there aren’t as many blacks, Hispanics or asians trying out for those sports, would those applicants get preference?
Also, you still need to perform in the classroom bottom line. Students need to take AP classes, Honor classes and score high on the ACT/SAT and be a good athlete. Sure there will always be a few who get in with a lower SAT/ACT score. The private schools look at everything. Just like in the "real" world sometimes it's who you know that get's you the job. Getting in is just the beginning at any school, if you don't perform, it won't do you any good.
 
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