Clockwise from left: James Gandolfini, Robert Iler, Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Edie Falco, stars of HBO's"The Sopranos," in 2002. By Bethonie Butler Bethonie Butler Reporter covering television and pop culture Email Bio Follow March 13 at 3:09 PM The pop culture references keep coming in the college admissions scandal involving Oscar-nominated actress Felicity Huffman and “Full House” star Lori Loughlin.
Prosecutors say the admissions case, dubbed Operation Varsity Blues by the FBI, involved millions of dollars. Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, allegedly paid $500,000 in bribes to get their two daughters designated as recruits to the University of Southern California’s rowing team. Huffman is accused of paying $15,000, disguised as a charitable donation, to have a third party correct her daughter’s SAT scores.
“The Perfect Score,” a 2004 teen heist comedy starring Scarlett Johansson and Chris Evans, devoted its entire premise to desperate attempts to game the collegiate system, following a ragtag group of high school seniors who conspire to steal the answers to the SAT.Until the Varsity Blues case gets the inevitable Lifetime treatment , the most on-the-nose example of fictional parents scheming to get their kids into college might be found on HBO’s groundbreaking drama “The Sopranos.
Meadow eventually gets into Columbia University, where her parents donate $50,000 to help fund a student center at the behest of a dean who pointedly brings up the couple’s donations to their kids’ tony private school. It’s not, ostensibly, a bribe, but Carmela tells a reluctant Tony that the dean “talked an awful lot about Meadow’s having the best possible university experience.”
The schools which were implicated by the CollegeAdmissionsScandal have a unique opportunity...need to let their marketing people run the “People will do crazy shit to go here. It’s THAT good !”
...yawn... boring
Frankly I prefer The Sopranos to these people.the case of The Sopranos the daughter was certainly qualified for her place at Columbia and at least Tony and Carmela were honest about the fact that they were mobsters. These disgusting reprehensible hypocritical lying scum...
Sounds like: 1. You are condoning the illegal behavior of wealthy white liberals and 2. You haven't really watched The Sopranos. FakeNewsDiesInDarkness
Remember when they could be bought for Carmella’s ricotta pie and the possibility of bodily harm. Good old days. Lol
This woman hasn’t learned anything. She’s posing, proudly, thinking she’s the greatest
Yep. 'Sopranos' plus 'Shameless'. It's perfect Frank Gallagher.
We need to “fix” how admissions are done! SAT/ACT and meaningless grades on a transcript do NOT tell administrators what a student knows and how they are likely to perform in college! Time for learning portfolios and demonstrative measurements!
I was thinking Access Hollywood
In one episode, Tony and Carmela fought over how much to donate to Meadow’s elite NYC university after a sleazy rep from the school took Carmela to lunch and hit her up for money. He suggested $50k. Tony wanted to give $5k.
Nah... more like Fargo.
🤔🤔🤔night out with
JohnLithgow, Orange County, 'Clearly youre not an expert in negotiations, so let me walk you through this. You come in with a proposal thats over the top, you want a new gymnasium $40000000. Then I counter with a low ball offer, like $2000 for a medicine ball' It's nothing new.
If kids did not know, why did they fake injuries? It would take a real oblivious person to realize something is not right when all you did was nothing to get into a college. Huffman could spend decades in jail? Come on. That in itself is absurd. Ppl spend less time for killing.
and SUITS
Apparently most of the cheaters are liberal democrats, limousine socialist and hollywood has been snowflakes ...probably some more in the fakenews industry too !
Disagree. Sopranos weren't this bad at crime
Why are these kids not expelled. ASAP!
Except Meadow was a good student and got into Columbia on merit.
Meadow took the SATs (on speed, but on her own). Tony took her on tours (& killed a former associate). Hawthorne's words to Tony (and others): 'No man can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one may be true.'
I wonder if WaPo will run another story on this if Obama did this for their daughters?
tedlieu has been very silent on this. I wonder why?
I think that Carmella made a threat w a ricotta pie, not quite the same
I feel bad for their children, what will they do when they're truly on their own and find out they didn't work their way through on their own.
G20 High Schools look beyond parochial issues... Association includes 50 schools in 20 countries, with membership by invitation & vote by existing members. G20 schools are chosen based on the reputation of the school & the reputation of the school's head.
Or the current White House.
And the trump crime family. Do them next.
Makes you wonder about David Hoggs Harvard admission
There is a lot of 'Soprano' schemes going on now, especially by DFT.
😉
So does the current administration
Finally, a thought from WAPO I was thinking about. When I first saw the story I thought about Meadow Soprano and Carm intimidating her old friend for a recommendation letter.
A ricotta pie is more than dessert.
i don't think so other than its been going on a long enough time and I would not be surprised at all to find out this sorta of pay to play didn't extend into washing subsidy dollars and changing them into campaign contributions for mostly left politicians
There’s a kdrama called “SKY Castle” being referenced on this issue...(Seoul-Korea-Yonsei Universities), apparently, on point!
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