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While the rest of us may have been left stunned by the college admissions scandal, apparently the people in the scammers’ inner circle always knew something shady was going on.
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Harlow Brooks, a former classmate of Olivia Jade and fellow YouTube lifestyle and beauty blogger, has unleashed on the former USC student in a vlog.
“When this whole cheating scandal came out, I’m not going to say I was surprised because we are in that world,” Brooks began, adding that she was going to “share a little bit of my tea.”
The high school senior explained that as she was starting her junior year, she moved to Los Angeles and enrolled in the same prestigious private school as the Giannulli sisters.
“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!’” she said. “And I was like, Wow … USC is super hard to get into.”
“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.
The blogger admits that she instantly assumed that it was “their mum’s a celebrity” or a donation of “a lot of money” that got her into the school, rather than Olivia’s personal merit.
“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.
She adds that while she attended high school, she barely had time for anything but schoolwork and after-school activities so she didn’t understand how Olivia still had time to balance her studies with her YouTube channel plus events and so forth.
“I would have to get up at 6:00 a.m. every morning and I would leave school at 4:00 p.m. and then I would have six hours of homework,” Brooks, who had a class with Olivia and often saw her in the hallways, said. “It made me think, ‘How is she doing this?’”
“How does she travel for YouTube? How does she have time to make YouTube videos? An arrangement with the school or something?” she wondered. “It just didn’t make sense to me. These schools, your life is literally, 100 percent school.”
She revealed that the pressure of getting good grades affected a lot of students and many would take Adderall (a prescription drug to treat ADHD), anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications to cope.
“It’s all this stress and pressure for no point, except to say that you went to this certain high school, and I think that’s why they go,” she said. “Because the rich people in L.A. want their kids to go to these schools so they can say they go to these schools so people know they pay $50,000 for their high school. It’s a super weird world.”
While she admits that she has no knowledge of what Olivia’s grades were, she’s almost certain that she wasn’t a straight-A student based on her attitude towards her studies.
“Seeing as I am a person who loves school and do really well at school and I couldn’t even handle the workload — I know that she’s publicly stated that she doesn’t like school — I can’t even imagine making it through a school like that if you are not committed,” Brooks said.
Anyway, check out the whole tea-spilling vid below: