She wanted to go to Arizona State because party school, but said long before this scandal she didn’t want to go to school at all. There’s video of this. Her parents said no, you’re going to USC, so that’s what she did. I think we need to be a little more gentle on these kids. If you don’t think so, go check out…

Yeah, as a fellow Old, my position is pretty similar, if proceeding from a slightly different place.

I mean, even if she knew what they were doing she likely didn’t have much choice in the matter. I wouldn’t expect someone who grew up with overbearing parents, never having to fend for herself to be able to have the skills or knowledge to just say “fuck you mom and dad”, pack and her bags, and leave to get a fresh…

Well she was definitely complicit. But my guess is that she told her parents that she didn’t want to go to college (in that most annoying, whiny, unconvincing teenage way) and they didn’t listen. So she went along with the plan figuring it would get her parents off her case and she could do what she wanted with her…

devil’s advocate: what 19 year old reads emails from their mother?

It’s not the list that got the attention, though, it’s the brave actions of the girls and the thoughtful response from the boys that is different and newsworthy. It’s a good story with an unexpected result, not to mention that the boy’s name was kept anonymous, so this will not follow him. Your critique really isn’t…

What a stupid point of contention.

If that's the case, then why were parents paying other people to either take the SAT or change the answers afterward? Why were they hiring other people to write the entrance essays? Why were the parents paying someone else to fill out the college applications that their own kid didn't even complete?

Counterpoint: I’ve read the entirety of the 203 page court filing (I love legal proceedings) and there are numerous parents that paid to get their very underachieving and idiotic children that would never have qualified for community college into these schools.

I bet at least some of them were unqualified. Miss “game days and parties” doesn’t exactly seem to be the best or brightest and some of the kids were confused as to how to fill out a college application.  If you can’t figure that out, maybe you’re technically unqualified and the numbers will probably bear that out…

I’m screaming! He tried it. 

Congratulations on leaving what is easily the most deranged comment I’ve ever received in my year of working at Jezebel lol. 

It doesn’t matter what size your labia is with this outfit. It matters whether you plan to move your legs more than one millimeter apart while wearing it. Because if your legs move, your labia move, and that bodysuit will end up cutting you in half in a way that is so painful that, you, being a man - can’t even…

not for use with jumping jacks.

but is she wrong? she sounds insufferable, but is she wrong? how do we know that her son didn’t get in because little livvie jade took his spot? or took spots from any number of other people?

“Bloody foreigners, coming to our country, taking our jobs, imposing their way of life on us. I won’t stand for it!”

I absolutely loved, loved, loved this look. The whole thing. He KILLED.

So I should karate chop you in the genitals, is what you’re saying?

I’m not a lawyer, but in what world would that handwritten note satisfy any kind of legal requirement? It needn’t be said that *nothing* can provide cover for rape -statutory or other- but htf would a handwritten note be sufficient to grant temporary custody of a minor to someone?

A parent cannot give permission for someone to sexually abuse a minor child. Sheesh.