
Guilty Admissions
The Bribes, Favors, and Phonies behind the College Cheating Scandal
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Betsy Foldes Meiman
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Nicole LaPorte
This entertaining exposé on how the other half gets in tells the shockingly true story of the Varsity Blues scandal, and all of the crazy parents, privilege, and con men involved.
Guilty Admissions weaves together the story of an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer, and how he preyed on the desperation of some of the country's wealthiest families living in a world defined by fierce competition, who function under constant pressure to get into the "right" schools, starting with preschool; nonstop fundraising and donation demands in the form of multi-million-dollar galas and private parties; and a community of deeply insecure parents who will do anything to get their kids into name-brand colleges in order to maintain their own A-list status.
Investigative reporter Nicole LaPorte lays bare the source of this insecurity - that in 2019, no special "hook" in the form of legacy status, athletic talent, or financial giving can guarantee a child's entrance into an elite school. The result is paranoia, deception, and true crimes at the peak of the American social pyramid.
With a glittering cast of Hollywood actors - including Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin - hedge fund CEOs, sales executives, and media titans, Guilty Admissions is a soap-opera-slash-sneak-peek-behind-the-curtains at America's richest social circles; an examination of the cutthroat world of college admissions; and a parable of American society in 2019, when the country is run by a crass tycoon and all totems of status and achievement have become transactional and removed from traditions of ethical restraint.
A world where the rich get whatever they want, however they want it.
©2021 Nicole LaPorte (P)2021 TwelveListeners also enjoyed...




















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"[A] riveting rundown of Operation Varsity Blues.... Readers will be captivated by this entertaining look behind the headlines." (Publishers Weekly)
Guilty
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Excellent
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Well Researched and Fascinating!
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Fun and informative book
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Very captivating
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Totally Nauseating
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Great in depth detail
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One wise child development expert cautioned that if a child needs tutoring for preschool (let that sink in), she’ll need tutoring to be successful in nursery school. Propel that forward to Harvard. No attention is paid to the child’s strengths, weaknesses or desires, only the parents’ narcissistic desires.
An example of a child being pulled out of soccer at *age three* due to lack of kicking straight (let that sink in) in favor of swimming so he could excel and have a competitive advantage for COLLEGE made me cringe. The importance of muscle development, self-esteem or the child’s preference didn’t matter.
Though Rick Singer is a huge sleazeball, I don’t blame him. I blame the parents for their terrible values. If not for the parents, he wouldn’t have been successful in his cheating. He’s a criminal for sure, but without the parents there would have been no crime.
I think the parents got off light for their crimes, with the exception of Felicity Huffman who admitted her guilt right away, showed appropriate understanding and remorse and didn’t try to get out of her short sentence. The damage she did to her daughters and family is her biggest consequence, which she realized. I respect her for that.
I’d like to see where the families are in ten years, how the relationships between parents and children have evolved. Did the kids turn out to be self-centered assholes? Did they learn from their parents mistakes? Are any of them better people?
Scary
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Engaging and Informative
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Like a vulture, the author feeds off the carrion of Rick Snyder’s already (!) decimated reputation then regurgitates it back to the public in this “book” which has the tone of mean girls gossip she acquired by obviously interviewing anyone who claimed to know the guy as if asking his EX wife or a guy he went to Highschool with was “investigative journalism.”
What a joke. The same market that consumed the snake oil salesmen Rick Snyder will likely consume this book and give rave reviews deluding themselves that bc they read it they are “in the know” know about some scandal.
The stupidest part was presenting him as a sociopath (antisocial) as if that just explains everything and absolves all the parents involved of responsibility or the burden of free will. Even if someone did diagnose Rick with APD - you have to be treating someone to diagnose them by the way - that’s not what this story is about and author too heavily weights this.
This is the story that shouldn’t be. Who didn’t know that money, power and influence rule America? Rick sounds like a poor kid who realized the American dream in true rags to riches style but then got greedy, went too far and committed crimes.
That doesn’t mean, as author implies, that everything he ever did was a crime (for example that Tab can story is the definition of petty exaggeration) not that he acted alone. He saw a market and he worked it. Now he’s the fall guy and rightly so. He broke the law but in classic scapegoat fashion fingering Rick doesn’t make anyone else more innocent and when the author talks about “the media” she should have been transparent that she meant herself.
Roasting Rick (a more accurate title)
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