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Shared, somebody at harvard said they were native american but they barely made it through. one professor dershowitz talks about this, that they skate through, i dont think thats true at some of the hardest universities. academically hardest universities. >> kennedy: its so frustrating. what does this teach kids? what does this teach someone if the parent tells you not to worry about the act? "i told them you have a learning disability, everything will be fine." those kids will be like, "i didnt...

Disability so they get unlimited time in the tests. >> dana: that was another part of the scam. they would label a student as having a learning disability and then steer them to these centers where the proctor was a friend of singer and would accept the bribe and either have somebody take the test for them. for example, parents were saying i need a 34 on my childs act test and imaginically, guess what, they got a 35. >> felicity huffman wondered what if they jump so much that people get suspicio...

Expertise in racketeering, which is what some of these charges are, barrett burger. tom, lets start with you with two notable figures in the case, the two actresses. >> both felicity huffman and lori loughlin were involved to try to get their daughters into universities. in the face of felicity huffman, in one instance with one daughter according to e-mails and the information contained in the court documents, ali, she was able to work with one of the people charged to get her daughter to take a...

The eldest kennedy daughter, was a bit slow. >> she was diagnosed with learning disability at the age of about 6 or 7. >> its the moment when as a debutante shes presented at court. this year that thrill is experienced by rosemary kennedy, daughter of the american ambassador. >> her mother decides that she should have time at home with tutors to help teach her how to try to keep up with the other children in a way thats very modern. >> the standard practice was they would be sent to a institutio...

>> from a young age rosemary, the eldest kennedy daughter, was a bit slow. >> she was diagnosed with learning disability at the age of about 6 or 7. >> its the moment when as a debutante shes presented at court. this year that thrill is experienced by rosemary kennedy, daughter of the american ambassador. >> her mother decides that she should have time at home with tutors to help teach her how to try to keep up with the other children in a way thats very modern. >> the standard practice was they...

Plus, i might have been diagnosed with some sort of learning disability back then, if they kind of were doing that because i had a hard time reading, i had a hard time writing, so academics were always a struggle for me. i was kind of a day dreamer kid, you know? theres always some, and i was always doing that. i loved sports. i got into music in fourth grade, started playing guitar. thats what i wanted to do you. >> went right from high school and never went to college. >> no. mark: how did you...

Learning disability at the age of six or seven. >> presented -- and this year that thrill was experienced by rose kennedy, daughter of the american ambassador. >> her mother thought she should have time at home with tutors to teach her how to keep up with other children the way that is modern. >> the standard practice is that she would be sent to an institution. and they were not going to do that. were going to raise her with her other siblings. >> as she hit puberty, rose marie goes to being so...

A bit slow. >> she was diagnosed with learning disability at the age of about 6 or 7. >> its the moment when as a debutante shes presented at court. this year that thrill is experienced by rosemary kennedy, daughter of the american ambassador. >> her mother decides that she should have time at home with tutors to help teach her how to try to keep up with the other children in a way thats very modern. >> the standard practice was they would be sent to a institution and grandpa and grandmas were n...

Plus, i might have been diagnosed with some sort of learning disability back then, if they kind of were doing that because i had a hard time reading, i had a hard time writing, so academics were always a struggle for me. i was kind of a day dreamer kid, you know? theres always some, and i was always doing that. i loved sports. i got into music in fourth grade, started playing guitar. thats what i wanted to do you. >> went right from high school and never went to colleg >> no. mark: how did you g...

The eldest kennedy daughter, was a bit slow. >> she was diagnosed with learning disability at the age of about 6 or 7. >> its the moment when as a debutante shes presented at court. this year that thrill is experienced by rosemary kennedy, daughter of the american ambassador. >> her mother decides that she should have time at home with tutors to help teach her how to try to keep up with the other children in a way thats very modern. >> the standard practice was they would be sent to a institutio...