YIKES!! Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman Hit With a $500 Billion Lawsuit

[SoCalDem]

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/a26857358/lori-loughlin-olivia-jade-felicity-huffman-500-billion-dollar-lawsuit-college-admissions-exam-scam/?utm_campaign=socialflowFBCOS&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media&fbclid=IwAR1TGhhzIjUcLG9oW576CdzZNBuPM7Y4lX5tBGf69rKsP-1nNbFGsLcPaiE


MAR 18, 2019


Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman Hit With a $500 Billion Lawsuit for College Admissions Scam

As the whole internet continues to meme the hell out of the college admissions exam cheating scandal, Full House and Desperate Housewives actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman just got caught in another huge legal battle.

Hopefully, you’ve been keeping up with the wild ride that is this major scam, in which Lori’s daughter and YouTuber Olivia Jade was allegedly admitted to University of Southern California based on fake test scores and her being a crew recruit—she does not row crew, BTW. Felicity also allegedly used the service to bribe her kid’s way into college. Obviously, when students who are less than qualified are allegedly admitted based on how much money their parents can throw at a school or a shady service, that makes people who didn’t get into the school of their dreams pretty upset. That’s where Jennifer Kay Toy and her son Joshua, who apparently had a 4.2 GPA, come in.


Toy, an Oakland school teacher, filed a lawsuit against Lori, Felicity, and dozens of others involved in the scam, totaling $500 billion. In court documents, Toy stated, “Joshua applied to some of the colleges where the cheating took place and did not get in. Joshua and I believed that he’d had a fair chance just like all other applicants but did not make the cut for some undisclosed reason.”

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[DFW]

1. Joshua had a 4.2 GPA?

All colleges I ever heard of had a maximum of 4.0 as a perfect score. If this kid was better than perfect, I can understand his mom's frustration.

I suspect a typo somewhere, all the same.

[malaise]

2. I thought so too until DUers brought me up to date last year

Apparently they have changed the calculation method and you can have above 4.

[DFW]

4. Ah, OK, thanks for the word

In my day 4.0 was perfect, hence my confusion.

[malaise]

6. Same here

[SoCalDem]

24. AP classes award extra points..My son was over the max as well..n/t

[malaise]

28. Very cool

[klook]

33. How much did that cost?

Just kidding!

[SoCalDem]

35. Many sleepless nights from him

And $600 in summer school tuition so he could take chemistry at college during the summer and not have to take it in high school because he also was an athlete playing 3 sports at varsity level...
The ultimate irony is that he chose not to go to college.... Go figure....

[klook]

36. Yeah, I have one who graduated from college

and one who attended classes briefly and then dropped out. Both are successful in their careers and happy with their lives.


Helping them have the opportunity is all we can do.

[SoCalDem]

38. He's a six-figure guy,,just turned 40

and very happy with his life.. He had some serious sports injuries, and the prospect of being in college and not being able to play was just more than he wanted.. He was in a very lucrative partnership with his friend (still is) and was making too much money at 18 to give it up..

He's a TRAVELER, and school would have cramped his style.. He goes to every World Cup (with his older brother and three other fanatics)...and now that he's married, he and his wife travel too (no kids).. They just got back from the Philippines..

He did go to college 6 semesters in Florence Italy (studied art) and somehow USA college would never have measured up.. That was an opportunity he did pass up some money to do

[catbyte]

3. I wondered that, too, but here's an explanation. It's called "Weighted GPA"

meaning some classes are more difficult than others, so it's possible to achieve up to a 4.5 GPA for Honors classes & 5.0 for AP/IB classes. Here's an article explaining it:

https://blog.prepscholar.com/gpa-chart-conversion-to-4-0-scale

On edit: here's another article:

https://www.quora.com/If-you-take-weighted-classes-and-you-have-a-4-2-GPA-of-a-possible-4-5-does-it-look-worse-than-not-taking-weighted-classes-and-getting-a-4-0

[PatrickforO]

12. No, if they take AP classes their GPA in high school can be over 4.0.

Some of these kids have 4.1, 4.2. But, yeah, the kid is a high performer academically.

He should have gotten in.

I think the typo is in the amount of the lawsuit. $500 billion doesn't fit the crime, you know. Maybe $5 or $10 million, but $500 BILLION???

[genxlib]

14. Not necessarily

See my story below. 4.2 is not all that impressive when compared to modern college prep standards. I would want to see an ACT or SAT score before I believed he was really cheated out of something

[lagomorph777]

16. I think he'd need a GPA of 4.0 billion to justify that lawsuit amount.

What kind of lawyer would work for an idiot like that?

Oh, right - a Trump lawyer.

[xmas74]

18. AP and Honors classes weigh higher

My daughter graduated from high school in May. In order to graduate summa it started at 4.2. My kid had a 4.16 so she was magna. Cum laude started at 3.86.

I didn't have all the weighted classes in school. Honors classes were weighted towards gpa-they were just honors.

[flyingfysh]

29. in some high schools for some courses, A counts as 5 instead of 4.

[Sherman A1]

5. Excellent!

May their lives be filled with lawyers!

[mgardener]

7. Why are there ads

In some of the replies?
This is the 3rd time I have seen in ad in a reply.

[denbot]

8. You are not a star member.

Hence, the ads.

[lunatica]

27. If you donate any amount to DU you get a Star next to your name

and the ads go away. There is no set amount or minimum. A year later you’ll get a reminder if you want to donate again.

[Soxfan58]

9. Why is everyone else getting off

It was more than two actresses.

[Laffy Kat]

10. Maybe they're not.

Could be these are the only ones we are hearing about.

[JI7]

11. the article says the lawsuit is against many others also. but the "news" focuses on the actors

for clicks.

[genxlib]

13. This just pisses me off almost as much as the original crime

Because someone gamed the system to bump their precious a couple of spots,, they want to game the system to be wealthy beyond all imagination. Call me an asshole, but I would be rooting for the original scammers in this farce.

Aside from that, I think that they are overly impressed about the kids academic record. A 4.2 is good but not great. Since it is over 4, it is obviously on a weighted scale. That means straight A’s with very few advanced classes or A’s and B’s with a fuller academic load.

That sounds impressive until you get a sense of what else is out there. As an example, I am currently college shopping with my daughter (literally doing campus tours this week). She takes a rediculous academic load and has straight A’s. Her gpa is close to 5.0. But here is the thing. Her class rank is somewhere in the high 70’s because there are +75 kids with a gpa even higher. I would venture to say that there are hundreds of kids north of 4.2. And that is just one suburban public high school.

The net result is that a 4.2 will not really stand out to an admissions counselor at an elite college. It is also why standardized test scores matter more than GPA.

[bigbrother05]

15. While the GPA and test scores can get inflated, the essays and interviews are key

We all are appalled at the cheating on the actual admissions tests, but being able to afford specialists to edit or even write the essays required at most elite colleges can make the difference.

When I came up in the late 60's, there was minimal emphasis at my public high school on the SAT/ACT except that you took one or the other to apply. Now, even the most mainstream public school provides optional classes on taking and improving scores and students take the test multiple times to maximize their scores.

Now we all recognize that at elite high schools or prep schools there are resources most of us never dream of that can make a student with better than average intelligence that's willing to work look like Ivy League material. Again, they will have to tick lots of boxes in outside activities to differentiate themselves, but they can meet the first cutoff mark, tests and grades. We all recognize that money and resources have an impact on chances of admission that tip the scales in favor of the wealthy over kids from underprivileged to even upper middle class backgrounds.

What this comes down to is gaming the admissions process at the desired school even without cheating. Wonder how many of the parents justified it as balancing out the effects of diversity in the process?

BTW, none of this applies to the likes of Trump or W who got in the old way, money and/or connections

[xmas74]

19. It depends on the school.

My daughter's high school maxed out at 4.35 for a gpa. Anything higher was impossible. She had classmates accepted to Columbia,Harvard, Georgetown, Princeton and West Point. All had in the 4.1 and up with extracurriculars and community service/involvement.

[genxlib]

21. Yes

It depends on how the individual HS scores and whether that parent was referring to a stingy or generous system.

In reality, my daughters school offers 6.0 for college level classes so her actual GPA this year turns out to be something like 5.7.

Either way, colleges don’t accept those numbers at face value. They recalculate everyone to a standardized scale (generally 5.0) so the two extremes can be compared fairly. So your daughters school wouldn’t get punished for their methodology

[ripcord]

37. My nephew got a rejection letter from a small private college

The letter said, nicely, you are a dick and we don't want you here.

[xmas74]

39. Wow

Was it grades? Extras?

[ripcord]

41. He had 4.1 and had plenty of extra curricular acrivities

But he didn't do well in the interviews, actually he is a dick, I love him but the truth is the truth.

[Mendocino]

17. $500 billion

Why not a $100 trillion billion gazillon trillion?

[FiveGoodMen]

20. Good point.

Like they could ever collect a decent fraction of it if they won.

[smirkymonkey]

23. Exactly!

This is so ridiculous. I hope he gets laughed out of court. I thought that little Covington HS wanker's lawsuit was outrageous at $250 million, but this is obscene. What is it with people these days?

[xmas74]

40. I originally read that they thought this

Would be a large enough headline to attract attention for the real purpose:a class action suit. They were hoping for others to contact their attorney.

[Blue_Tires]

22. Dollar amounts like that only turn real cases into punchlines...

[JuJuYoshida]

25. Nobody on "Full House" made a billion dollars, she's screwed

[MicaelS]

26. I would have sued them all for 1 Trillion dollars. I'm quite serious. n/t

[fescuerescue]

30. Damages of half a trillion

Sounds legit.

[FiveGoodMen]

32. It's based on potential lost earnings over the lifetime of

no one ever.

[KayF]

31. if the kid is so smart

he should explain to his mom what 500 billion means.

[DinahMoeHum]

34. Methinks in the end there will be a settlement. . .

. . .of about $250K - $500K, more than enough to pay for the young man's tuition.

Just my 2 cents.