It seems Mellisa Carone, Rudy's fraud witness, has a bit of a, ummm, background story

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47. BASc is a bit of an odd degree that can mean different things

In Canada it is an engineering degree.

In the US it is supposed to be an advanced technical degree.

Two things jump out at me in this particular case. One is that she got an Associates degree after getting the BASc. The other is that her BASc is from ITT Tech in 2015.

By that time period ITT was little more than a scam. They used high pressure tactics to get students to take out large loans. They were flagged because their student loan default rates were higher than their graduation rates. They would falsify student grades to “help” then get more and more loans. Eventually when the government quit allowing them to use GI Bill monies, ITT just shut down in 2016.

Earlier their accrediting board, ACICS, was in the process of pulling their accreditation. Which is interesting because the Dept of Education withdrew ACICS’ recognition in 2016. So basically. ITT was getting its accreditation pulled by an organization who was getting its accreditation pulled.

Of course, Betsy DeVos reinstated ACICS when she got in.


So long story short - I wouldn’t put much weight on her BASc degree.