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What Happened?

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Ursus:

--- Quote from: "guest209409834" ---last i heard leslie had been blacklisted. She went from hero to zero of the troubled parent industry the second that complaint from B&M came out. Not only that, she changed her email and phone number due to the excessive amount of angry phone calls she suddenly started getting. she may have moved too.

i got into college because I CCed leslie on all my applications and correspondence with colleges. or so she claimed.

A freind of mine who went to Hyde tried that for a few schools. those schools contacted him swiftly and told him that leslie wont do him any good because she has lost all credibility, they told him not to bother applying again due to their inability to determine weather or not he or leslie, or both, were being dishonest. their words were something like "your choice to use an educational consultant, specifically leslie goldberg, is to us an indicator of your potential for academic dishonesty in the future".  He tried again, applied to better, ivy-leauge schools without Leslie's help (leslie tried to convince him he wouldn't get into any good schools and recommended him to a number of small schools of lower reputation that provide "more structure"...like santa fe in florida...lol)
he got into NYU, Princeton...a few others...and he goes to cornell now with a 3.8 GPA despite his excessive love of weed, chicks, and beer.  :rasta:

go figure.


oh, and whooter's credibility went down the drain the second i got him to admit to, and extensively talk about his LSD and marijuana addled past a few years ago. Funny thing is he was lying about it to gain credibility with the wrong side....our side. i guess he was drunk at the time. HLA did teach me a few things...such as the value of "acceptance" when trying to manipulate others into digging their own graves.  :roflmao:
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The problem with basing one's hopes on a scammer's loss of credibility is... there's always another sucker coming 'round the corner. If the be-all-end-all is making money, it becomes a simple matter of outlasting the critics. Leslie Goldberg seems to be doing fine now, judging by the superficial appearance of her website. 'Course it's not like I'm really in a position to know. However, my guess is that to the average desperate parent, her "years of experience" probably count for a lot. How she is viewed by the other end of the educational spectrum may well be another story. Trouble is, a lot of desperate parents probably aren't looking that far ahead.

I'm curious whether your friend ended in "good standing" at Hyde. Somewhere on the Hyde forum, a couple of years ago, someone mentioned them sending additional materials along with the kid's transcript, in this case a somewhat disparaging letter. Apparently they pick and choose who they want to succeed.

Is Leslie fond of referring to Hyde? It would make sense, she's just down the Northeast Corridor from them...

Anonymous:
No, he was in horrible standing at hyde. his parents pulled him out halfway through his senior year due to the way the school and his peers treated him. he only got a transcript from them after a little legal wrangling. he finished the second half of his senior high school year at the same private day school he started off in (in canada), and got glowing recommendation letters from his teachers there.

just because leslie has a website doesnt mean she's doing well. a website is a marketing tool, not a testament of success.

Ursus:

--- Quote from: "Guest" ---No, he was in horrible standing at hyde. his parents pulled him out halfway through his senior year due to the way the school and his peers treated him. he only got a transcript from them after a little legal wrangling. he finished the second half of his senior high school year at the same private day school he started off in (in canada), and got glowing recommendation letters from his teachers there.
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Lols. Ya know, I've heard many a story of that ilk, over decades of kids having gone there, as far as getting transcripts from Hyde is concerned. What exactly do they expect to accomplish through that? What is their point? "Conform to Hyde, or we'll make you pay for your mistake!?"


--- Quote from: "Guest" ---just because leslie has a website doesnt mean she's doing well. a website is a marketing tool, not a testament of success.
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You're absolutely right. I was thinking of the perspective of a desperate parent. Btw, just how involved is she with STICC?

Troll Control:
@ Lacey...

I think, and others may agree or disagree, that we (meaning people intimately familiar with HLA) did all we could to provoke the collapse of this horrid institution.  Personally, I told my story, told the stories of many others, recruited insiders to post here, cultivated contacts inside HLA (and succeeded in having reems of documents smuggled out by personnel which became much of the legal basis for the class action lawsuit), and, generally, dropped the f*cking hammer on HLA politically.  

Personally, I don't post much anymore because what I have already posted is exhaustive of my knowledge.  Whatever happens now is beyond the locus of my control.

That being said, I am incredibly proud of everyone's efforts here.  Even if there isn't much left to contribute, the work has been done and the results are archived for the present and future.  If just one parent decided not to send just one kid to that abusive shit-pit, then I feel one hundred percent gratified and satisfied with my own effort.  I am comfortable in estimating that many children were spared this depravity due to the hard work of people here at Fornits.

As far as The Who is concerned, he is just a giant phony.  If, by some weird properties of the universe, he actually was some sort of venture capitalist, he's likely lost his shirt and been knocked down a few pegs more.  This man is truly a bottom feeder, whatever his lot in life.

DJ

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "guest209409834" ---reputable educational consultants
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What?

Can I find them next to the square circles among the Venusian ice fields?

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