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Students Hit UCLA, Yale, USC With Admissions-Scandal Class Action

Students say they were denied a fair chance to get into elite colleges.

The University of Southern California, Yale University, the University of California, Los Angeles and other elite colleges have been hit with class-action lawsuits over the admissions-bribery scandal, Bloomberg News reports. Two Stanford University students—Erica Olson and Kalea Woods—say they were denied a fair chance to get into Yale and USC, respectively. They also claim their Stanford degrees were devalued by the criminal racketeering charges leveled by federal prosecutors. The lawsuit, seeking class certification, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The FBI has charged dozens of the rich and famous in a massive college-admissions scandal in which parents allegedly paid millions in bribes to help their kids snag a spot at some of the nation’s top universities. Meanwhile, a college-exam counselor at Florida’s IMG Academy, a top private spot for elite scholastic athletes, who was paid to take teenagers’ ACT and SAT exams has told USA Today he’ll “always regret the choices [he] made.”

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