New York Post

‘Didn’t make sense’

- Lia Eustachewi­ch

A former high-school classmate of Olivia Jade Giannulli claims she knew the Instagram-famous beauty vlogger’s acceptance to the University of Southern California was too good to be true.

Harlow Brooks says she was dubious when she learned both Olivia Jade (above left) and her older sister, Isabella Rose, got into the university.

“I remember hearing 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 — both of them,” Brooks, now a high-school senior, said in a video that’s garnered more than 2.9 million views.

Brooks went to an unidentifi­ed “super-elite,” pricey LA private school with both sisters, who are the daughters of “Full House” star Lori Loughlin (above right) and fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli.

Although she no longer attends the school, Brooks recalled how “insane” the expectatio­ns were.

“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. Because they want them to go to Yale and Harvard and USC,” Brooks said.

She added she was baffled by how Olivia Jade could juggle her gig as a social-media influencer on top of hours of schoolwork.

“It made me think, ‘How is she doing this?’ . . . I was like, ‘How does she travel for YouTube? How does she have time to make YouTube videos? An arrangemen­t with the school or something?’ ” said Brooks. “It just kind of didn’t make sense to me.”

Loughlin and her hubby were among 50 ensnared in the college cheating scandal. They’re accused of paying $500,000 to get both daughters into USC as competitiv­e rowing recruits — even though neither is an athlete. Both girls have reportedly decided to drop out.

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