Another celebrity, the actress Felicity Huffman, known for her role in the television series “Desperate Housewives,” somehow got a bargain rate for only $15,000, Singer put in the fix for her daughter’s SAT. Television actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, paid Singer $500,000 to get their two daughters admitted to USC as bogus recruits to the crew team. For students lacking the stellar academic credentials top colleges required, Singer devised corrupt workarounds.įor instance, the chairman of a prestigious law firm paid $75,000 for his daughter to take a college entrance exam at a test center supervised by a proctor paid by Singer to ensure the student received the score she needed. Singer’s company specialized in gaming the intensely competitive college admissions system that had in recent decades become the primary gateway to prosperity and prestige. They charged 33 wealthy parents with engaging in an elaborate cheating scheme to get their children admitted to elite universities including Yale, Stanford, Georgetown, and the University of Southern California.Īt the heart of the scam was an unscrupulous consultant named William Singer, who ran a business that catered to anxious, affluent parents. In March 2019, as high school students awaited the results of their college applications, federal prosecutors made a stunning announcement. Excerpted from “Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?” by Michael J.
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