Landry “appears to have been a genuine incubator for success, particularly for self-reliant students willing to put faith in a nontraditional education model,” Mr. Pastorek wrote. And it did not obtain publicly available court documents showing that Mr. Landry pleaded guilty in 2012 to a count of battery and was sentenced to probation for beating a student. The Landrys also reported on college applications that students had placed in the top 10 and 20 percent of their class , rankings that Mr. Landry essentially acknowledged were made up . One student’s transcript showed all “advanced” courses that the Landrys later said should have been “honors;”; they blamed it on a clerical error. The report concluded that the discrepancies appeared “largely insignificant, potentially unimportant to an admissions officer, and appear to be explained by mere sloppiness.”

Source: New York Times June 02, 2019 18:22 UTC