Celebrities wept in court. Coaches lost their jobs. Elite universities saw their reputations stained. But four years after a college bribery scandal, wealth, class and race loom as large in student admissions as ever.
When authorities announced the first charges in 2019, it left colleges across the U.S. scrambling to review their own admissions systems, especially where there was overlap with athletics programs. Schools added layers of scrutiny around recruiting, with a sharp eye on lower-profile sports targeted in the scheme, such as water polo and rowing.
Officials at USC said they started reviewing athletic recruits at multiple levels of administration, including by an office of athletics compliance, which also started verifying that recruits actually end up competing. On campus, he said, students from modest means are still far outnumbered by those who went to private schools with access to expensive tutors. Roberts and others have pressed the university to abandon policies that favor wealth, including preferences for the children of alumni, but so far Yale has resisted change.Angel Pérez was the head of admissions at Trinity College in Connecticut when the scandal broke.
Still, he said, the bribery case — along with the country’s racial reckoning and separate legal battles over affirmative action — stirred debate about the fairness of legacy preferences and entrance exams., authorities said their work led to reform. The FBI said colleges reached out asking how they could catch wrongdoing.Massachusetts U.S.
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