Gangster Capitalism S1: The College Admissions Scandal I EP 1: The Side Door
Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities
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🗓️ 14 May 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Through transcriptions of wiretapped conversations between Rick Singer, Felicity Huffman, and others, Episode 1 brings to life just how dirty these schemes were. We also hear from a student who cheated on his SAT, a psychologist who deals with students and parents trying to game the system to get more time to take the SAT and ACT, and Jenks breaks news by finding the ringleader, Rick Singer, in an unlikely place.
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| 0:00.0 | C-13 Originals. |
| 0:05.0 | When I was in high school, getting ready to apply to college, I knew I wanted to go to an art school. |
| 0:20.0 | And there was one school I wanted to go to an art school. And there was one school I wanted to go to. |
| 0:24.6 | I kind of felt like if I got into my dream school, that was the finish line. And then everything |
| 0:32.4 | would be okay. I was nervous because the SATs were approaching, |
| 0:38.3 | and I knew that I was not going to do well on them. |
| 0:44.3 | I had taken the PSATs. I did horribly. |
| 0:49.3 | I had, it almost felt like a panic attack. |
| 0:52.3 | I remember leaving the room and reaching for the doorknob, |
| 0:57.9 | and my hand was shaking really hard. |
| 1:01.4 | I was freaked out that the SATs could keep me from getting to where I thought I should be. |
| 1:10.9 | I had been praised for my artistic ability, and it was the most important thing in my life, |
| 1:15.3 | and I knew I had a natural talent for it. |
| 1:20.1 | And the idea that I was going to be kept from getting into this school |
| 1:25.6 | because of an academic test that had nothing to do with my ability or my dream felt so wrong to me at the time. |
| 1:35.7 | And that made me think, well, if there's a way I can get around this, I'm going to get around this. |
| 1:44.9 | One of my classmates was making fake IDs for the local rich kids. |
| 1:52.0 | And he mentioned that he had a friend who taught him how to make fake IDs, who was also an SAT |
| 2:00.0 | bus. |
| 2:06.9 | He had made a fake ID with someone else's name and his photo, and then taken the SAT for them and gotten them of 1400. When I heard this, my jaw dropped |
| 2:14.2 | up. I mean, I was like, I will pay whatever I need to pay to avoid facing this test. |
| 2:20.6 | My roommate put me in touch with them. |
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