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posted by martyb on Wednesday March 13 2019, @01:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-did-the-students-do? dept.

Actresses and Business Leaders Charged in College Admissions Bribery Scandal

Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people on Tuesday in a major college admission scandal that involved wealthy parents, including Hollywood celebrities and prominent business leaders, paying bribes to get their children into elite American universities.

Thirty-three parents were charged in the case. Also implicated were top college coaches, who were accused of accepting millions of dollars to help admit students to Wake Forest, Yale, Stanford, the University of Southern California and other schools, regardless of their academic or sports ability, officials said. Along with the Hollywood stars Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, those charged included prominent business leaders, a fashion designer and a top lawyer, officials said.

The case unveiled Tuesday was stunning in its breadth and audacity. It was the Justice Department's largest ever college admissions prosecution, a sprawling investigation that involved 200 agents nationwide and resulted in charges against 50 people in six states. The charges also underscored how college admissions have become so cutthroat and competitive that some have sought to break the rules. The authorities say the parents of some of the nation's wealthiest and most privileged students sought to buy spots for their children at top universities, not only cheating the system, but potentially cheating other hard-working students out of a chance at a college education.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @07:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @07:24PM (#813886)

    Imagine a business school that graduates a future president who cannot read, write, speak in coherent sentences, think through consequences of ideas, and cannot process ideas or concepts above an adolescent level at best. How does that make them look? Was daddy's money worth it?

    We all knew Baby Bush got into Yale and Harvard on his academic strengths...

    But the reputation of those schools hasn't suffered. That's because it doesn't matter what you know, but whom you know. And you get to know a lot of powerful people if you go to ivy league schools.

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