I'm with you. I had no idea who she was since I don't watch much TV and have no interest in teen-aged "influencers"

Felicity Huffman's daughter is a high school senior.
I'm 99% sure Olivia Jean knew what was going down.

"But Daddy, I was an Ooompa Loompa NOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWW"

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https://media.giphy.com/media/YzvPqrOVoS9tC/giphy.gif

Their daughter is a HS Senior at the LA HS of the Arts. I don’t know where she got accepted (with her 1410 SAT score, when her PSAT score was 1010), but I’d expect that acceptance will get rescinded. She’s already has an IMDB page so she was probably going to a university to study acting (UCLA? NYU?)

As an Advisor at UCLA and after this scandal, there would be chapters that would still extend a bid, but probably most wouldn’t.

UC Berkeley
http://www.dailycal.org/2019/03/13/f...ssion-scandal/

edited to add
https://abc7news.com/education/uc-be...andal/5196483/

Not the 1st time Olivia Jade was handed something that she did not have the merits to achieve on her own:
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/wait...170100717.html

So she won a rigged game that was televised on phones?? I really wonder if my grandparents were this confused when television was invented.

Some Schools are considering expulsion of the students involved in the scandal.
https://news.yahoo.com/university-so...123243363.html

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University of Southern California students allegedly embroiled in the college admissions scandal that has rocked elite universities across the country won't be allowed to register for classes, while officials conduct an internal investigation.

"USC has placed holds on the accounts of students who may be associated with the alleged admissions scheme," the university announced in an update on its website on Monday. "This prevents the students from registering for classes or acquiring transcripts while their cases are under review."

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/19/70493...ribery-scandal

While that stinks for the students involved especially for those who truly might not have known their parents were up to questionable tactics. I applaud USC for making this move its only fair to the vast majority of students who put in an honest effort in order to get into USC.

More USC info on the cheating scandal:
https://www.tmz.com/2019/03/20/usc-s...ating-scandal/

And UCLA, this student is on their nationally ranked soccer team. With NO soccer experience.
(Initially, I wasn’t going to post this as it gives her name but since she posed for the photo — which is still active on the UCLA soccer team website — the student is complicit as well.)
https://www.campuscircle.com/review....ssions-scandal

I think a true tragedy in all this scandal are the high school students who worked really hard to get in to these schools, but were denied admission. Those high school students who are actually academically talented and/or top-notch athletes.

This past Sunday, CBS Sunday Morning, had this segment. This is truly a tragic story. This young lady was academically talented and the captain of her high school robotics team. She thought she was not good enough (with all her accolades) to get into MIT.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-lost-...andra-valoras/

Have you contacted her to remove it from her LinkedIn profile?

I read all 200+ pages of the indictment that was published. Holy COW. Guess these people never learned about omerta (you can google it). Idiots. What moral compass? What ethics? I want to slap all of them.

The names and Greek affiliations of several students are readily available on the Internet. To me, it's not about being Greek or finger-pointing. As I repeatedly write, "there but for the grace of God"... and before anyone jumps, yes, one of the students is (or was, I can't check Sister Search on the Theta website to see if she's still a member b/c it isn't functioning and who knows when it will be? Theta launched a new website which IMO they shouldn't have, it's incomplete and not ready, but I digress) a USC Kappa Alpha Theta. *shrug*. This "pay for admission" mess speaks to a much deeper place. Which is dark, and very sick. Very, very sick. Trying my level best not to speculate and all I can say is WHAT THE HELL WERE THESE "ADULTS" THINKING??????????

So, now we sit and wait. Until the next thing comes along. Which it will. The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

From a story in The Hollywood Reporter a couple days ago:

At USC, Loughlin's daughter, Instagram influencer Olivia Jade, hasn't been seen at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority she pledged in January. "I don't think she's still considered a member," says one person familiar with the sorority, which held its initiation the weekend of March 23. "I don't think she'll come back, I don't foresee that happening."

"One mother of a Brentwood School senior cops to scouring Singer's Facebook page for friends she and the counselor have in common — and questioning what his relationship to those parents might entail (Loughlin often sang Singer's praises to other members at the Bel Air Bay Club, where she and Giannulli belong, according to several sources). "People are fucking pissed off at these cheaters," says the Brentwood mom. "This paints all of us in a really bad light. My kid scored over a 1500 on the SAT. No extra time. No payoff. Just hard work, and [the kid] is beyond stressed out about college because of these other kids who are cheating. It's kids like mine who lose."

Here is my problem with this statement. This mother thinks her child never had any advantage and she is wrong. While her child didn't cheat, they still have advantages over the majority of high school students by the parents buying a "premium" education at the private Brentwood school. The child probably also had the benefit of the parents paying for additional tutoring and SAT prep classes.

Additional charges filed

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...TJGYkpH36w0g7g

LOL at the girl in the crowd yelling "Lori, Lori, Lori! Pay for my tuition!"

In the latest twist in this saga.

Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli's daughters were reportedly dropped by their sisters.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...144442358.html

Kudos to KKG for dropping them. It's nice to see a little bit of accountability being doled out for this whole shady situation, even though it was probable these young women would never be returning to USC. It would be nice to see some of the colleges and universities in this scandal booting out or withdrawing degrees from the other fraudulent students, but that probably won't happen on any large scale. I hope Ms. Loughlin and her hubby see some jail time for what they did. What frauds.

How is it possible that USC is not allowing them to withdraw? Are they forcing tuition to be paid? Making the girls go to class? How is this possible?

The girls are not attending classes nor living on campus. Aside from the semester when the scandal broke, I don't know how a school could require students to continue to pay for a service (the education) that they are no longer using. One cannot refuse to allow a student to withdraw from school. While they are embroiled in a scandal and likely enrollment status has been put on some kind of hold due to pending legal action and a university review process, a school may not "force" a student to remain enrolled or attend classes. What a silly idea. I weep for what passes as journalism these days.

So, a school in the area where I used to live has told students that if they are found guilty of hazing, they will be kicked out of school and their previously earned credits will be voided, for lack of a better word. I had never heard of this before. (It's a private school.)

So maybe USC isn't preventing them from withdrawing, but perhaps won't release their transcripts, pending the investigation, preventing them from enrolling anywhere else with the credits they've "earned" so far?

Now I know that Fox News may not be the best source to cite but...

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...am-allegations

A chapter rep is saying that Olivia Jade was never initiated and Bella is still a member

You're far from the only one. At least 90% of what is called journalism right now would have earned the writer an F in college.

^^^ABSOLUTELY concur! And frankly, I think Greek membership, no matter what the situation, should be ONLY between the member and the local or national organization. It’s abdolutely nobody else’s business regardless of the situation.

http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/icons/icon14.gif

They aren't any better or worse than any of the other outlets that try to pass themselves off as journalistic endeavors these days.

How exactly does one remain an "active member" of Kappa Kappa Gamma when one is not actively attending the university or participating in the chapter's daily activities and operations?

We were taught that "the D in Delta stands for Discretion" so you don't air the chapter laundry in public.

Of course, this particular situation has transcended public domain and then some. I actually feel sorry for KKG (and my grandmother is probably spinning in her grave!).

I would think KKG is in a no-win situation. Since I'm sure there are some that want to know and others who feel like this is a private membership matter.

Either way, how could have KKG known there was this back door system that people of privilege were using to get their kids into school? I'm sure when membership to Lori Laughlin's daughters was offered it was because they met the requirements (that are not public) and clearly the members of the KKG chapter at USC thought they would be good additions.

Unfortunately the poor judgement of some has had a ripple effect on people and organizations who were not involved in any wrong-doing.

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2020/08/...sions-scandal/

This is surely just the tip of the iceberg and has gone on for years. :mad:

I have heard that said many, many times about what happened.

I think she (Loughlin) should be in prison much longer than two months. Buying her airhead daughters’ entrance into school probably changed the course of the lives of some others who were more deserving and didn’t get in.

I read an interesting comment somewhere by a former reality TV star (Eliza Orlins) who is now running for Manhattan DA.

She gave as an example a man who stole cough syrup and toothpaste from a drugstore being recently recommended for a one-year jail term. One year. For cough syrup and toothpaste.

We need to change the laws.

I agree that there needs to be more common-sense sentencing. A man can get probation and community service for beating his wife to a bloody pulp, but someone goes to jail for months over having a couple of ounces of marijuana. (I'm not talking about the person that has been arrested for this before, is violent, a known drug dealer, etc.... Then obviously it's not just a bag of weed and would through common sense have a longer sentence.)

There needs to be an overhaul in many places to make things more equitable in sentencing. Like I said, common sense.

There would be some justification if her career would be over, but she’ll just start playing the murderous slut in Lifetime movies instead of the woman in jeopardy.

Or the deranged mother who's daughter didn't make the: cheer squad, soccer team, lead in the musical, ASB president, etc...:rolleyes:

NinjaPoodle, did you see this in the SF Chronicle? Looking pretty bad for the UC system Sigh. ihttps://www.sfchronicle.com/educatio...d-15587005.php