I posted this in a separate conversation so apologies to those who have to read it again (or skip it, I won’t be offended!):
Re: eligibility requirements, Miss USA Pennsylvania states the following for contestants:
“ALL DELEGATES • Must be of good health and moral character • Must be a Citizen of the United States • Must be recognized medically and legally as a female in the United States, and
at least one of the following three statements must be true:
(1) Must now reside in their state as their permanent and primary residence for a period of at least ninety (90) days immediately prior to the beginning of their state pageant (although they may have attended college or University elsewhere, or work full time in another state);
or
(2) Must have resided in the State as a full-time student at a school, college or university for one full semester, trimester or summer session immediately prior to the state pageant, and still enrolled as a full-time student at a school, college or university and will continue to reside in the state (although they may spend the summer in another state).
or
(3) Must retain full-time employment in the State (i.e., I work at least forty (40) hours per week in the State, and I qualify for employment benefits provided by my employer) and have maintained such full-time employment for a period of at least ninety (90) days prior to the date of the State Pageant.”
I post these requirements for two reasons:
1) I wonder if perhaps she took the not-prestigious (but extremely important!) job in the assisted living facility simply as a way to fulfill the third requirement. She claims on her LinkedIn to have graduated from college in 2023, but was in the 2025 Miss USA Pennsylvania competition, so she would not have met the second criteria as it states delegates must have held/were going to hold full-time student status up to and after the state competition.
Related to that “student status” thing, I am not positive, but wonder if perhaps she might not have graduated from PSU University Park, as her LinkedIn profile suggests she does (I could not find the name “Kada Scott” in the 2023 PSU Commencement programs for the College of Communications OR the College of Liberal Arts at Penn State’s main campus (and PSU’s main campus does not even appear to offer a Bachelor’s in Liberal Arts/Liberal Studies, which is what her LI profile says she majored in).
Here is the page where that program, and other programs for the summer and fall commencement ceremonies can be found, if others would like to look for themselves : Past Graduates & Commencement Programs Archive
2): I wonder if perhaps she could have been being harassed/blackmailed by someone who knew she didn’t meet one of the Miss USA Pennsylvania eligibility requirements (“good moral character,” as deposed Miss America Vanessa Williams can attest, is a requirement it is pretty easy to fall afoul of, and I imagine that’s even truer for a pretty young woman like Kada living in today’s social media-saturated world!) and she might’ve met up with that person at the Arboretum to try to persuade them to leave her alone, with fatal consequences.
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