A former classmate of Lori Loughlin's daughter Olivia Jade says she was suspicious of how the YouTube star managed to run a profitable social media channel and study a communications major at the University of Southern California.
Harlow Brooks didn't mention the name of the Los Angeles-area high school she attended for a week with the teenager who is caught up in a huge college admissions scandal, but many familiar suggested it was the private Marymount All Girls Catholic High School in Bel Air where the likes of the Kardashian family attended.
In a video posted last Thursday, the fellow vlogger claimed students took prescription drugs to survive the immerse pressure they were put under by helicopter parents at the tough school, and admitted she was confused as to how Olivia Jade managed to her influencer work with homework, let alone how she and her sister got into 'extremely hard' USC.
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Harlow Brooks says she was suspicious of how Lori Loughlin's daughter Olivia Jade was able to run a profitable social media channel, study at her tough high school and get on a communications course at the University of Southern California
Olivia Jade is caught up in a major college admissions cheating scandal that has at least 50 people accused of wrongdoing
'I remember when I was touring the school I saw a picture of Olivia Jade's sister actually on the wall with the seniors and it was like, 'Congratulations Bella for getting into USC!' And I was like, Wow … USC is super hard to get into,' Brooks said about Loughlin and designer Mossimo Giannulli's elder child Isabella Rose Giannulli.
Sixty five percent of incoming USC freshman have a grade point average of 3.75+. SAT totals tend to be within the 1300 – 1500 out of 1600 range.
While being a first generation college student is considered, as is ethnicity, work experience and the interview process, USC considered the academic GPA, application essay, recommendations and test scores very important.
Olivia's embattled parents – who did not attend college - are currently facing up to five years in prison for falsely presenting their daughters as crew recruits at the university and then allegedly paying over $500,000 in bribes to guarantee that both teens would be admitted to the school.
Brooks said she wasn't surprised when the cheating scandal came out due to getting a look into the world of the privileged children at her high school which she decided was not for her after only a short time.
Harlow Brooks didn't mention the name of the Los Angeles-area high school she attended for a week with the teenager but many familiar suggested it was the private Marymount All Girls Catholic High School in Bel Air (pictured)
As well as comments, Olivia Jade has a video on her YouTube channel documenting her last day at Marymount
'Then I remember hearing later that Olivia had also gotten into USC and I was like, Whoa, that's kind of crazy because USC is very extremely hard to get into. So not only one sister, but both of them,' Brooks added.
Both Olivia and Isabella decided to withdraw from USC on Thursday, reportedly due the backlash their family had received since the news broke. The girls have no immediate plans to try and enroll in another school, the source added.
Overnight she went from a college student making upwards of seven figures a year to an unemployed drop out.
In the past few days Olivia Jade has come under fire once again for saying in a May 2018 YouTube video that she was 'never at school' and was more interested in partying at college.
Further inspection showed Olivia arrived at her dorm on August 16, 2018, a few days before her first day of classes, but the next day posted a photo of herself with a few other social media personalities on a Fiji trip funded by shopping app Dote.
She remained in Fiji for the entire first week of classes, and made no secret of the trip.
'How does she travel for YouTube? How does she have time to make YouTube videos? An arrangement with the school or something?' Brooks said she wondered at the time. 'It just didn't make sense to me. These schools, your life is literally, 100 percent school.'
Brooks claims some classmates 'were taking Adderall, on antidepressants (and took) anti-anxiety' medication as they faced pressure at the school that cost tens of thousands annually
In fact she claimed their high school was tougher than college and student had little free time.
But she put their admissions down to having famous parents or those wealthy enough to make big donations.
'There's a network of five to seven or so private schools in Los Angeles that are $30,000 to $45,000 in tuition every year. The work is literally harder than college. It is insane what these students go through to go to these schools because their parents think that they need to. They want them to go to Yale and Harvard and USC,' Brooks said.
'I would have to get up at 6am every morning and I would leave school at 4pm and then I would have six hours of homework. It made me think, "How is she doing this?"'
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