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#55 - The College Admissions Scandal and COVID Brain

Apr 19, 202139 min
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This episode reviews the College Admissions Scandal documentary on Netflix. Rick Singer the mastermind behind the "side door" method created a system to get students into prestigious schools through a "dummy" charitable orgninization.  With this set up, rich and well-known parents paid Rick Singer to where he took the money and bribed coaches, school administration officials and an SAT a ACT test taker.  In the end the students where being admitted to as walk-on candidates to under the radar sports programs that received little attention to that of the larger profile sports. Their portfolios where doctored up with photos that were manipulated in Photoshop meaning they were not athletes.  David and Cindy also review their current experience with COVID.
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