What planet are you from? From 4pm to 8pm my grocery store is packed. As in all lanes open, and line back to the shelves. It's bananas. Literally everyone within 10 blocks hits the place on their way home from school/work. 

I am 99% sure the dude is a contractor fixing something in the apartment.

Sunday morning before 10 is the time to go grocery shopping. Everyone is either sleeping in from saturday night or going to church

What unwitting kids? Many of them actively posed with their water polo gear or rowing machines. And even if the parents helped change their board scores or photoshopped their headshots into athletes behind their backs, the kids should’ve known something was afoot when they got into a school after failing Art History…

Large schools are generally the main campus state schools and those should be open enrollment. Smaller schools and specifically private schools certainly have the resources to screen applicants in a meaningful way. You’re not applying for a job at the CIA, your applying for higher education and the schools can easily…

This is correct, you have a 24 hour store, the best time is like 3 AM. But God help you if you need help locating something or don't want to bear witness to the stocking troglodytes. I say this as a former stocking troglodyte myself, but I worked in the frozen foods section, so I was more of an ice troll.

The optimum time to go to the grocery store is usually around 6am-8am on a weekday for maximal shopping efficiency.

Between 6-8 is when all the individual departments (seafood, meat, produce, etc.) in the grocery store get going. The interior ailes of the store were restocked by the overnight crew, but departments…

Or, just spitballin’ here, they’re genuinely useless tests that have no bearing on well someone will do in college. However, they have turned into a money making industry and the ability to weight college admissions in favor of the affluent. https://highschool.latimes.com/port-of-la-high-school/we-all-sat-down-for-noth…

Yes. But not for lack of oversight, but because they are useless.

I worked in Ivy League athletics (wouldn’t go back). We had to certify every year that the only aid provided was based upon need as determined by the FAFSA and school policies. For example, if your FAFSA showed an income of under $65,000 you went to school for free and aid was lowered incrementally after that. My…

This isn’t about college athletics. This is about affluent parents buying admission into schools their kids can’t get into under the guise of athletics.

Sure, they offer tons of need based money.

It’s funny you mention international students because there’s a whole industry of bending rules to get students from certain countries into programs when they’re willing to pay full cost.

To further your analogy, what you’re saying is that the sandwich itself is at fault instead of your decision to leave it out. Canada has college athletics. The UK has college athletics. Japan has college athletics. The issue isn’t the existence of college athletics, it’s that everything in America gets put through the…

Should we also ban ACTs and SATs? Because they can’t handle oversight of their people either.

Well, schools make tons of money off of their athletic programs, hence the scholarships.

They only tangentially enter in. This didn’t involve student athletes or schools faking test scores to make athletes eligible. It involved parents faking high school athletic careers for their kids to get the into colleges. And while the college coaches took bribes (which is illegal), those bribes didn’t affect the…

The problem isn’t college athletics as a concept, the problem is that like a lot of things Americans think that if a little bit of something is good, then ten million times as much must be better.

they don’t get “free rides.” In the Ivy’s they don’t get scholarships at all. At schools that do give scholarships, most in Tennis and Soccer, if they do get athletic scholarships, aren’t getting full scholarships due to the equivalency limits. This is about preferential treatment in admission.

[T]he plot targeted families who were rich enough to afford their services but not rich enough to use the traditional institutional advancement method . . .