Jodie Foster went, where---to Yale? Jonathan Taylor Thomas went to Harvard, Brooke Shields went to Princeton. Natalie Portman went to Harvard. Celebrities ALL go to elite schools. James Franco went to several at the same time. If he's really that smart, why does he waste his super-intellect on creative writing and conceptual art?
Conan O'Brien, meanwhile, noted that the education you get at Harvard really isn't that good.
When I was in high school, I started wondering how Thurston Howell III managed to graduate from Harvard. I knew how he got in, but did it make sense that he managed to get a degree? Then I look at Yale graduate George Bush, Jr, and it started to make sense.
I read a true crime book about Alex Kelly, the wealthy teen rapist from Greenwich, Connecticut. I finally understood it. One of the teachers from the high school there said that the rich kids had no intellectual curiosity whatsoever. They had zero interest in what they were studying. But they cared deeply about grades.
I was startled to read that rich parents used corporal punishment on their teenagers. Kelly's father would belt-whip him. Some parents had paddles. I guess you can get away with that if you're rich.
Actresses Lori Loughlin of Full House and Desperate Housewives' Felicity Huffman were among those arrested in a bribery scandal. Huffman is the wife of actor William H Macy who wasn't charged. They were part of a larger scandal involving rich people trying to get their unqualified children into elite universities for some reason. If you're rich, does it matter what college you go to?
They couldn't get their children in to college just by being celebrities? Couldn't they use their celebrity status to get their children into show business which, in turn, would get them into whatever university they wanted?
What do you think their horrible children wanted to major in?
You have to hand it to Rick Singer, parlaying his job as a college counselor into a vast multi-million dollar criminal conspiracy. You don't see that every day.
You think the federal prosecutors were snobs trying to protect their elite schools from the less worthy nouveau riche, or were they poor boys going after the rich bastards who looked down on them because they had to work their way through college?
The son of MOVIE star Rob Lowe took to Twitter. He was outraged, after all the hours of high-priced classes he took to prepare for the SAT's, that mere TV stars would think they could buy their way in with their dirty television money.
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