Yeah, I should just go found my own town in WY who wants to move in?
― El Tomboto, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Ooh, actually, just move to Lander, WY!
― river wolf, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm kind of fascinated by the idea of ILX all picking up and founding a remote western settlement. Probable collapse within in 3 weeks though.
― Hurting 2, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Can we rename Lander to Villa Del Tomboto y/n
― El Tomboto, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link
move to idaho, start a polygamous commune, spawn hundreds of children and send them all to ivy league schools!
― bell_labs, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
I think you will hacve to take that up with Lander, TOMBOT
― river wolf, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Ilx Barre
― Hurting 2, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Etna, Wyo., is a wonderful town of pop. 300 or so. You could work doing cryptology shit for the Freedom Arms Gun Company hq, located in that town. There's also a crazy bison preserve there. It's in a beautiful valley and you can buy "illegal fireworks" such as firecrackers & bottle rockets all year round. Plus cigs (ie Camels) are on avg. $3/pack. GO FOR IT.
― Abbott, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
a strong temptation
― El Tomboto, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
There seem to be a few semi-ghost towns in the west where you could move in your family and a few friends and elect yourself Mayor/Dictator for Life.
― milo z, Friday, 10 August 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link
There's a polygamous community about a mile from my old house. We could all move in there. My mom still owns the house. We could live in my old house (10 acres, a pond, room for more outbuildings) and commute to the polygamous community down the road. Except I would never want to live there again. But you guys maybe could. Hamilton. It's beeeeyoootifully located in the foothills of the bitterroot mountains. My town has been turned into a big kmart.
― Maria :D, Friday, 10 August 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Bone, Idaho goes up for sale periodically. Yes, the entire town. Hilariously enough, Southeast Idaho rumors claim Vin Diesel lives there.
― Abbott, Friday, 10 August 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh wait, sorry, that article is hella stupid and sentimental and barely about Bone at all. Pretty much the only representation of the town I can find is here (big image. That is he bar/general store, the other is an RV someone uses as a house. "BONE - POPULATION 2"
― Abbott, Friday, 10 August 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.boneville.com/wp-content/uploads/BONE%20OVE%20Poster.jpg
― river wolf, Friday, 10 August 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/yale-harvard-law-taking-over-supreme-court/
I know this isn't 'news' but this image is o_O
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/07/15/business/economy/economix-15scotusto1950/economix-15scotusto1950-custom2.jpg
― iatee, Saturday, 17 July 2010 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
one more one more one more one more
― dyao, Saturday, 17 July 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
meh. even if they stopped giving new SC appointments to Harvard or Yale Law grads, it isn't as if they're going to start appointing, oh i dunno, Rutgers or Brooklyn or Temple Law grads to the Court (even if the nominee was valedictorian). look at the shit that Harriet Myers caught simply because she "only" went to Southern Methodist (well, there were other [more important] reasons why she was unsuitable to be on the Supreme Court -- but the fact that she didn't go to an Ivy law school wasn't one of them in my mind anyway).
― The Beatles are not pizza!!! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 18 July 2010 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean, CJ Rehnquist and Justice O'Connor were both Stanford grads -- and Stanford might just as well be Harvard or Yale as far as the über-elitist in the lawyer world care.
― The Beatles are not pizza!!! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 18 July 2010 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
but that's the thing - the fact that even the Stanford/Chicago/Columbia/etc. elite aren't represented is why this has become...well, strange? but yeah I think a lot of it has to do with how the nomination process has changed over time.
Harvard/Yale is - maybe more than ever? - the gold standard when it comes to American credentialism. Obama's Harvard degree got more attention than his Columbia one, I think.
― iatee, Sunday, 18 July 2010 01:57 (fourteen years ago) link
college/grad school pedigree not as important for prez candidates generally
― buzza, Sunday, 18 July 2010 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
hasn't been a non-harvard/yale pres since the 80s or even nominee since...bob dole?
― iatee, Sunday, 18 July 2010 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
guess we should all be happy that palin is getting the nom then
― dyao, Sunday, 18 July 2010 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm voting for her just to break the streak
― iatee, Sunday, 18 July 2010 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wait I forgot about mccain oops
vietnam prison was his harvard
― iatee, Sunday, 18 July 2010 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
http://rachelmarsden.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/bush_rugby.jpg
― dyao, Sunday, 18 July 2010 02:53 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.quickanded.com/2010/11/why-not-yale.html
― iatee, Sunday, 14 November 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/8/30/academic-dishonesty-ad-board/
― iatee, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I have been boggling at that on Facebook
the most intersting comment was "was this rampant cheating or a really terrible teacher creating confusion" and the sad thing is that I could easily see either or some combination of both being true
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Friday, 31 August 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/opinion/elite-colleges-are-as-foreign-as-mars.html
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 April 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Until then, is it any wonder that students in Pahrump and throughout rural America are more likely to end up in Afghanistan than at N.Y.U.?
you are less likely to end up dead at nyu but it's def ruined some lives
― iatee, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 02:23 (eleven years ago) link
For deans of admissions brainstorming what they can do to remedy this, might I suggest: anything.
niiice
― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
Most parents like mine, who had never gone to college, were either intimidated or oblivious (and sometimes outright hostile) to the intricacies of college admissions and financial aid.
I didn't even know how to go about financial aid or where to start - my school expected parents to step in and offer guidance, I suppose.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
OTOH, I don't think the problem is "rural kids underserved by Harvard and Stanford," I think the problem is that Directional State U is treated as little more than a waystation for handing out Bachelors of Business Administration by society/the state/etc..
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://gawker.com/this-personal-essay-will-get-you-into-columbia-478217730
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
Is there anything that I can do, a lot of young people have written to ask me, to avoid becoming an out-of-touch, entitled little shit?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118747/ivy-league-schools-are-overrated-send-your-kids-elsewhere
― o. nate, Monday, 28 July 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
Counterpoint: http://doctorcleveland.blogspot.co.il/2014/07/snobs-vs-ivy-league-or-question-of-bill.html?m=1
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Monday, 28 July 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
That counterpoint seemed a bit wide of the mark to me. I didn't get the impression that the piece was really suggesting that underprivileged youth who are lucky enough to win the lottery and get into an Ivy should turn it down for a state school where they'd have to struggle. That would be crazy. Also, I doubt the author wrote the title himself. Seems like it was cooked up by an editor angling for page-views.
Here's another take:
Mr. Deriesiewicz seems shocked, shocked to discover that 250+-year-old institutions charging rack rates north of $60,000 per year to convey some tangled Latin prose on sheepskin to spotty youngsters at the end of four or more years--institutions for which the combined endowments exceed the gross national products of several small countries--should be complicit in the perpetuation and justification of entrenched socioeconomic power structures. Whence, exactly, did Mr. D think these universities' wealth, status, and prestige come from? Whence the demand for their services? From whom?
http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.ae/2014/07/improve-yourself.html
― o. nate, Monday, 28 July 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
https://tvline.com/2019/03/12/felicity-huffman-indicted-lori-loughlin-ivy-league-bribe/
Desperate Housewives vet Felicity Huffman and Fuller House‘s Lori Loughlin have been indicted for allegedly taking part in a large scheme involving parents who paid bribes of up to $6 million to get their kids into elite colleges, including Harvard and Yale, ABC News is reporting.The indictment was filed by the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts; the documents were unsealed early Tuesday.
The indictment was filed by the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts; the documents were unsealed early Tuesday.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
More: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-uncover-massive-college-entrance-exam-cheating-plot-n982136
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
US Attorney re the Huffman/Loughlin (among others) college scam: "We're not talking about donating a building...we're talking about fraud."— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 12, 2019
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
As Gabriel Malor said in response: "Ew, new money. How gauche."
As someone who grew up near San Diego, this is easily the funniest detail so far:
Feds dunking on USD pic.twitter.com/45RbCKy8sx— Jon Sarlin (@jonsarlin) March 12, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
Hoo boy
Here you can see Lori Laughlin's daughter's "college dorm room tour," in which she says pretty much everything in the room was comped by Amazon (presumably so she'd mention that repeatedly to the 1.1 million people who've watched the video) https://t.co/YlWrIUa0PW— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) March 12, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
The good thing about William H. Macy being involved in a scandal is that his middle initial is readily available for me to express my astonished disappointment in him.
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
Oh, this is illegal?
― Yerac, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link
Per the indictment, Huffman and husband William H. Macy (who is not referenced by name) paid $15,000 to have someone take the SAT in place of their older daughter, which ultimately resulted in a 1420 SAT score for her. They also allegedly pursued doing the same for their younger daughter, but eventually decided against repeating their involvement in the scheme.Loughlin and Giannulli allegedly paid a total of $500,000 so that their two daughters would be designated as recruits to the USC crew team. Neither girl participated in the sport. Athletic recruits have a much better chance of admission than students who are not recruited.
Loughlin and Giannulli allegedly paid a total of $500,000 so that their two daughters would be designated as recruits to the USC crew team. Neither girl participated in the sport. Athletic recruits have a much better chance of admission than students who are not recruited.
damn
― omar little, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link
i was under the impression that donating was more common thanthey're making it sound. i'm assuming what's not common ishaving another person take the SAT exam in your place. it seemslike a clumsy way to try to get into a college, though.
also, while ucla has a couple of pretty good programs, for the mostpart, the main reason it's "highly selective" is because they haveover 110,000 applicants a year.
there are transfer programs at community colleges that can prettymuch guarantee your admission to ucla and berkeley.
― John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link
I see that maybe they "donated" the stupid way.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
legit shitty parenting
― omar little, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link
Oh here's something fun.
What are your best “hacks” for the back-to-school season?— Felicity Huffman (@FelicityHuffman) August 25, 2016
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
I think I'd want a higher score for $15,000.
― jmm, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link