USC is also a private school in California, and it’s been around longer than the one in South Carolina.

The difference is what is done with the money, not where it comes from. How exactly do you think non-profits work? The highest value donors always get something in return, because their money is fundamental to keeping the organization running. Most US colleges and universities are non-profits, and require endowments…

Literally the movie.

She was supposed to be struggling with all of her human emotions.

UCLA is one of the top schools in California, and is very difficult to get into.

To be fair, many of the top schools in California are public schools, and are hyper competitive.

It’s a good school, just not one anyone should be bribing anybody to get into. The acceptance rate is like 30%, it’s competitive but not that competitive.

I was like

I was trying to be nice...

The overarching crime that connects all these together is bribery. Non-profits are subject to U.S. anti-bribery laws. Again, the cheating itself isn’t what is illegal, rather how they went about the cheating. Had this been a for-profit organization it wouldn’t be illegal, but nonprofits are not required to pay taxes…

It’s also a perfect example as to why their should be a much lower value placed on SAT scores. On top of it its questions being biased, it’s cost prohibitive for low income students if you have to take it more than once, and/or can’t afford PSAT courses or books, and it doesn’t actually measure anything other than how…

All the top schools in California have only gotten more and more competitive in the two decades. UCLA’s is 17.3% and Stanford’s is 5%. most of the schools on this list are fairly competitive (Georgetown, Stanford , UCLA, Yale). Not sure why anyone would need to bribe to get their kid into University of San Diego…

Racketeering, money laundering, wire fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy to defraud US and obstruction of justice, are the charges being leveled. All of which are illegal. It’s not the cheating that’s illegal, it’s how they went about the cheating that is.
 

I agree with your take. I honestly feel like a lot of people saw a different movie than I did... or just wasn’t paying attention to what they were watching.

That’s the direction I’d like them to move into, and I think they’re finally starting to take the shackles off and take more risks. Now that I think about it Thor: Ragnarok, didn’t have a romance subplot either - it was intended, and you can tell, but they cut it out - and the movie was better for it.

Agreed. And maybe the problem is that people just have a hard time accepting a movie that doesn’t have a romantic subplot in it, when they expect one to be there. Every single other MCU movie has one, except this one, which doesn’t need one.

Chris Evans as the definitive Captain America, four movies before Chris Hemsworth really nailed it as Thor, two movies before Scarlett Johansson was properly used as Black Widow

There were times she felt very...wooden, non-emotive, very generic?

You’re not naive and you didn’t miss anything. There’s just a tendency in fandom these days for people to pair “best friend” characters of the same sex, into romantic relationships in their own personal headcanons, despite what the actual canon establishes (this happens with Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes a lot, for…

Who said they weren’t? All I’m saying here is that CPS isn’t the solution you seem to think it is. Truancy is a matter for the schools to resolve, but they don’t have the resources to provide transportation, housing, substance abuse counseling, and other programs that will address the underlying factors that…