The most fire tweets about the college admissions scandal, for your viewing pleasure
On March 12th, news broke that at least 50 people have been caught participating in a multi-million-dollar college admissions scam. Industry CEOs, Hollywood actresses including Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, college coaches, and SAT/ACT exam administrators have been formally charged with involvement in the largest college admission scheme to date. They stand accused of bribery, cheating, and lying to get their children into some of the country’s most elite colleges and universities.
"For every student admitted through fraud," U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling of Massachusetts said on Tuesday, March 12th, "an honest, genuinely talented student was rejected."
According to CNN, the scheme was orchestrated by William Rick Singer, who was paid a whopping $25 million to get children of wealthy parents into elite schools. Singer facilitated cheating on ACT and SAT exams by bribing exam administrators, as well as university coaches to recommend recruitment (even if a potential student wasn’t even an athlete). He would then disguise the bribe payments from his elite clients as donation money, putting it into a “nonprofit” he set up.
And people are rightfully pissed.
https://twitter.com/udfredirect/status/1105795704612704256
If unqualified, unprepared rich kids got into the most selective universities & didn’t fail out, what does that tell you abt the academic rigor at these places? What does it say abt rampant grade inflation? What does it say abt who is picked to succeed. #CollegeCheatingScandal
— Aisha Sultan (@AishaS) March 13, 2019
I graduated from college with a student loan debt of 100,000, because my family couldn’t afford to send me to college. I worked during the school year and summer, and had a small band scholarship. I may be in debt, but at least I earned my education. #CollegeCheatingScandal
— Missy (@HawksWoman81) March 13, 2019
What bothers me the most about this #CollegeCheatingScandal is these parents had the $ for top schooling, tutors, coaches, SAT/ACT prep for their kids to get in the right way! If my parents had that kind of access to education/prep maybe I would've gotten into my top choice.
— Jessica van Dop (@DiningTraveler) March 13, 2019
Truth be told, we know the wealthy use their influence to gain access into certain institutions (cough, donating buildings). However, we didn’t think the reality was this intense.
Rich people use their money to scam and get their dumb kids into a good college?!?!?! #collegeadmissionsscandal pic.twitter.com/sZAsnVeDgG
— Sonny Trujillo Jr. (@sonny_io) March 13, 2019
Everyone: "Rich kids just bribe their way into top schools"
* #CollegeCheatingScandal story drops*
Everyone: pic.twitter.com/MyxqI4RUU6
— Matthew Caplis (@C4PLIS) March 13, 2019
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https://twitter.com/udfredirect/status/1105614935667687424
And the fact that so many less privileged kids didn’t get spots at these schools because wealthy kids cheated their way in is pretty sickening.
This is for all the black kids who were told we just got in b/c we were black…
**cough cough Aunt Becky**#collegeadmissionscandal— Dr. Eliza Scornberry, PRE-PhD (@The_lady_day) March 13, 2019
Just a reminder that rich people are able to use their money and power to open elite doors for their mediocre children that, in turn, make it far more likely that they will succeed in life. Poor people and POC are expected to be exceptional. This is not a meritocracy.
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) March 12, 2019
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And of course, many just can’t get over that this involved…Aunt Becky?
https://twitter.com/udfredirect/status/1105499015246954497
Ah, Aunt Becky, how the tables have turned. pic.twitter.com/kohi5bpp5w
— Michael Anthony Adams (@MichaelAdams317) March 12, 2019
When you realize Aunt Becky's going to jail: pic.twitter.com/CfNJmdmrv1
— Norm de Plume (@Stahp4RedLights) March 12, 2019
Ever since Uncle Jesse tried to help DJ cheat on the SAT we should’ve known Aunt Becky would be tempted pic.twitter.com/6Lx32IxH2J
— Brian Proferes (@bproferes) March 12, 2019
Imagine working at the FBI and everyone around you is uncovering crimes by the President, and you get assigned to wiretap Aunt Becky for trying to get her dumb kid into college
— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) March 12, 2019
What ever happened to predictability
the milkman
the paperboy
aunt becky bribing usc
— Seinfeld Current Day (@Seinfeld2000) March 13, 2019
I made a song for Aunt Becky. pic.twitter.com/vRWrg3sXq3
— Akilah Hughes (@AkilahObviously) March 12, 2019
According to Singer—who is now facing 65 years in prison—he’s reportedly worked with at least 800 parents over the course of his “career.” And we have a feeling at least a few more high-profile names will be revealed.
