Bribes and Schemes: The College Admission Scandal | Multi Level Mondays

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Blair Zoń

Education, Business, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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0:00.0	Imagine if you wanted to get into your favorite college.
0:05.8	You've worked hard, you've got good grades, and write an amazing cover letter with
0:09.8	glowing references, right?
0:11.8	Well, money talks, and it does for aspiring college students
0:15.4	too. Enter the college admissions scandal when wealthy parents paid their
0:19.2	kids way into prestigious colleges. It feels like it all just happened yesterday,
0:23.0	but can you believe that this actually started three years ago?
0:26.0	And yet, the leader of it and the main orchestrator of the scheme
0:30.0	has yet to be sentenced.
0:32.0	The family that created Hot Pockets, famous actresses, a Napa Valley
0:36.3	Vineyard owner, plenty of Uber wealthy people were involved in this scam, paying tens to
0:41.9	hundreds of thousands of dollars to get their children admitted into prestigious universities.
0:47.0	So how did it finally fall apart and how did it begin?
0:52.0	Operation varsity Blue.
0:53.6	College admission scandal.
0:55.1	The 19 big story today.
0:56.8	A million dollars in Bryan University admission scale.
0:59.5	Federal charges and possible jail time.
1:01.5	To pretend their kids were student athletes.
1:03.6	Many of them didn't play sports.
1:05.2	Hello everyone and welcome to Multilevel Mondays.
1:10.1	Today we're going to be chatting about a scam known as the college admission scandal or
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