In May 2017, UCLA was especially giddy about the quality of players recruited to the college’s women soccer team for the following academic year. LA Marina does not exist and her only experience of the sport was posing awkwardly for a photograph on an indoor rowing machine. The enterprise was masterminded by Rick Singer, owner of The Key, a consulting company designed to help parents with more money than sense navigate the choppy waters of the college application process. “This case is about the widening corruption of elite college admissions through the steady application of wealth combined with fraud,” said Lelling. “There can be no separate college admission system for the wealthy, and I’ll add that there will not be a separate criminal justice system either.

Source: The Irish Times April 03, 2019 14:26 UTC