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I love the Onion.chalcidbear said:
Here's the Onion's take on the USC angle:
https://entertainment.theonion.com/usc-insists-lori-loughlin-s-daughter-was-admitted-solel-1833246244
Big C said:
I'm so glad I lived all of my life (until this week) not knowing who Olivia Jade was.
Oh, come on. The world needs more Instagram influencers.Big C said:
I'm so glad I lived all of my life (until this week) not knowing who Olivia Jade was.
There seems to be a disconnect between your attempts to convince people that USC is not the Spawn of Satan and yet your own personal views on Notre Dame.bearister said:
Well, I won't repeat what I said in a prior post that my experience as a parent of a USC student, and now graduate, caused me to change my mind about the place.
With regard to Notre Dame, my preconceived notions were validated.
TheFiatLux said:My housemate just got his PhD in Mechanical Engineering. What do you do?txwharfrat said:71Bear said:It is absolutely true.okaydo said:
It's amazing how true this is. (I'm sure many here will disagree, particularly those with advanced degrees.)
I will disagree with this entirely. I have been out of school 33 years and the fact that I got a engineering degree from UC Berkeley still carries tremendous weight in my field. Sorry. It might be true for some degrees but not engineering.
Last night:OneTopOneChickenApple said:Oh, come on. The world needs more Instagram influencers.Big C said:
I'm so glad I lived all of my life (until this week) not knowing who Olivia Jade was.
MSaviolives said:Last night:OneTopOneChickenApple said:Oh, come on. The world needs more Instagram influencers.Big C said:
I'm so glad I lived all of my life (until this week) not knowing who Olivia Jade was.
Me: I heard she is an influencer
Mrs: What is an influencer?
Me: ........ummmmm...I thought you would know what that means, so I just threw it out there....
Seriously. Youtube star? Based on what?Big C said:
I'm so glad I lived all of my life (until this week) not knowing who Olivia Jade was.
It blows my mind that there's such a thing and apparently the popular ones pull in big bucks...like $100k or more per post on youtube or instagram, if you have enough followers. This is the "you're your own brand" baloney taken to the extreme.MSaviolives said:Last night:OneTopOneChickenApple said:Oh, come on. The world needs more Instagram influencers.Big C said:
I'm so glad I lived all of my life (until this week) not knowing who Olivia Jade was.
Me: I heard she is an influencer
Mrs: What is an influencer?
Me: ........ummmmm...I thought you would know what that means, so I just threw it out there....
Notre Dame used to be the #1 Catholic school in America. Admission percentage is at 19.5% for 2018 and it has dropped to #2. Maybe the legacy thing has dropped them a bit. So often what goes around comes around.bearister said:Another Bear said:
...The one thing I heard as a kid was..."SC is for dummies."
This is the last time I will take the bait on this issue and post a USC "apologist" comment, so here goes:
My daughter was the Valedictorian of her high school class and had a 4.37 GPA;
She had 2200 on the SAT with writing component included (1460 without that component);
She applied to and was accepted by Cal, UCLA, Boston College, Georgetown and USC;
She was wait listed at Notre Dame (which was her school of preference). I have always hated ND and I was very unhappy that she wanted to go there. ND ended up dumping her;
She wanted to be a business major and was told by Cal that could not be determined until her junior year and even then there was no guarantees.
USC told her that not only would she immediately be accepted into the undergrad Marshall School of Business but that they would give her a $10,000 annual merit scholarship and the freshman Spring Break trip for the business school was to China. USC made all these promises February of her senior year of high school. She accepted. USC had basically paid her to go to USC over Cal.
This initially broke my heart because of my love of Cal and because of my preconceived ideas that everyone at USC is either a bleached blond bubble head or a surfer dude (like they were in the 1970's).
Well, I won't repeat what I said in a prior post that my experience as a parent of a USC student, and now graduate, caused me to change my mind about the place.
With regard to Notre Dame, my preconceived notions were validated. When we visited the campus with my daughter we witnessed virtually no student body diversity and it seemed a cold unfriendly place (and a bastion of Conservative Catholicism). It is my opinion that the reason my daughter got dumped by ND is that the school is so legacy heavy and full of chowder heads like the DeBartolo spawn that kids from California that are not star athletes can F off.
Yes, between that pervert gynecologist and this recent fraud in admissions issue, USC has some problems, most schools do, even Cal (sexual harassment) to one degree or another.
The End
Shallow and sick. They don't produce or create anything. Just an online billboard.Another Bear said:It blows my mind that there's such a thing and apparently the popular ones pull in big bucks...like $100k or more per post on youtube or instagram, if you have enough followers. This is the "you're your own brand" baloney taken to the extreme.MSaviolives said:Last night:OneTopOneChickenApple said:Oh, come on. The world needs more Instagram influencers.Big C said:
I'm so glad I lived all of my life (until this week) not knowing who Olivia Jade was.
Me: I heard she is an influencer
Mrs: What is an influencer?
Me: ........ummmmm...I thought you would know what that means, so I just threw it out there....
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/28/18116875/influencer-marketing-social-media-engagement-instagram-youtube
Big C said:
I'm so glad I lived all of my life (until this week) not knowing who Olivia Jade was.
Even that is too mainstream now. Need more than that.KenBurnski said:
Or even have the decency to release a sex tape like Paris. That girl EARNED her right to be famous for nothing.
BearBoarBlarney said:
There seems to be a disconnect between your attempts to convince people that USC is not the Spawn of Satan and yet your own personal views on Notre Dame.
I think most Cal fans would probably rank both of them pretty high on the Spawn-of-Satan-o-meter, but I've wondered which one is hated more as both universities seem pretty well hated by everyone else.
omg , don't know who you are but I love you, and your poor wifeMSaviolives said:Last night:OneTopOneChickenApple said:Oh, come on. The world needs more Instagram influencers.Big C said:
I'm so glad I lived all of my life (until this week) not knowing who Olivia Jade was.
Me: I heard she is an influencer
Mrs: What is an influencer?
Me: ........ummmmm...I thought you would know what that means, so I just threw it out there....
USC dropoutsBig C said:
I'm so glad I lived all of my life (until this week) not knowing who Olivia Jade was.
There was OJ and then there's OJ.Big C said:
I'm so glad I lived all of my life (until this week) not knowing who Olivia Jade was.
oskirules said:USC dropoutsBig C said:
I'm so glad I lived all of my life (until this week) not knowing who Olivia Jade was.
https://pagesix.com/2019/03/14/lori-loughlins-daughters-drop-out-of-usc-after-admissions-scandal/
I don't buy the "innocent kid" argument very well. In my medium-sized public school, I knew damn well where I stood as a student. I knew I wasn't Ivy League material. All my friends had a good idea where they stood. One REALLY wanted to be on the Furd gymnastics team, but he was denied. He and another friend "settled" for Cal Gymnastics. And we all knew the real brains in school - the ones who were headed in the Ivy League direction. So for these kids to claim ignorance is a bit much.Another Bear said:
Mercury News names local names...
Which rich Bay Area parents paid to grease their kids' entry to elite colleges?
Wacky detail pulled from article: The rigged SAT testing center was in West Hollywood, so these Bay Area kids would travel to take the rigged tests there. They had to figure out something was up, having to travel to SoCal for testing.
The damages so far?oskirules said:USC dropoutsBig C said:
I'm so glad I lived all of my life (until this week) not knowing who Olivia Jade was.
https://pagesix.com/2019/03/14/lori-loughlins-daughters-drop-out-of-usc-after-admissions-scandal/
Big C said:
I'm so glad I lived all of my life (until this week) not knowing who Olivia Jade was.
OneTopOneChickenApple said:The damages so far?oskirules said:USC dropoutsBig C said:
I'm so glad I lived all of my life (until this week) not knowing who Olivia Jade was.
https://pagesix.com/2019/03/14/lori-loughlins-daughters-drop-out-of-usc-after-admissions-scandal/
Singer - $500,000
Year and half of USC for both daughters - $90,000+
Lawyers fees (no idea about fees, just guessing. Assuming a plea agreement, no trial) - $500-750,000
Lost television contracts - $Millions
Lost online product deals - $Hundreds of thousand
Fines - $$$
All to get your daughters into college, when they didn't even want to go.