Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admission Scandal

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, Sara and Danny are back with a breakdown of the college admissions scandal that landed Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman in prison (for like, 2 minutes). They start off with some background on the ringleader of the scheme, Rick Singer, and how he ended up making millions from sneaking in rich kids to elite colleges. Then they go into how the whole scheme was discovered and ultimately busted, and the all the fallout from the federal investigation that followed. They also discuss the recent Netflix documentary, Operation Varsity Blues, and whether it was a hit or a miss. To end the episode, they play a game of Easy Fake, where they try to guess which absurdly named college courses are real and which are fake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.9	Slack.com slash DHQ. The college admissions process is one of the most pivotal moments
0:33.7	of a student's life, one that often has a major impact on their future path.
0:38.0	However, this mysterious process is often touted as a lottery, with no shortfire way to guarantee
0:43.4	whether or not a student will be admitted to their dream university.
0:46.7	So when Rick Singer appeared to offer a foolproof way to ensure a student's entrance into the
0:51.1	college of their dreams, the rich and famous took notice.
0:54.3	For years, Singer was involved in a number of schemes in getting these students into college,
0:58.4	including cheating on test scores, and even lying about their athletic abilities.
1:02.3	But as we all learn in school, what seems too good to be true often is, and the federal
1:06.2	government caught wind of this operation and moved swiftly to shut it down.
1:10.2	Now students will have to get into school the old fashioned way, through studying and
1:13.3	working hard much to the chagrin of the rich parents who thought they had found the
1:17.0	secret way in.
1:22.0	The rich's media presents, not another true crime podcast.
1:27.7	It's all fun and games, until someone gets hurt.
1:33.2	Alright guys, welcome back to another true crime podcast.
1:39.8	I don't know why I started it, like I'm already exasperated, but you know, a kind of
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