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USC, Yale among colleges sued by students amid college admissions scandal

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world, after 40 years of Democrat control and parasitic 
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The University of Southern California, Yale and several other 
elite colleges are being sued by multiple college students who 
claim they were denied a fair opportunity for admission and have 
had their degrees devalued due to a college cheating scheme 
detailed by federal officials Tuesday.

The initial plaintiffs, Standford University students Erica 
Olson and Kalea Woods, filed a class-action lawsuit in the U.S. 
District Court for the Northern District of California on 
Wednesday, a day after federal authorities said they've 
uncovered one of the largest college admissions scams ever seen 
in the U.S. The lawsuit seeks $5 million on behalf of what the 
lawyers estimate will be thousands of plaintiffs who fit the 
criteria to seek class status.

As of Thursday afternoon, Olsen was no longer involved in the 
lawsuit and a revised version of the complaint had removed her 
name. Woods remained in the suit, however, along with three new 
plaintiffs. The new students hailed from Rutgers, Tulane and an 
unnamed community college.

The University of San Diego, the University of Texas at Austin, 
Wake Forest, Georgetown, Stanford, Yale and USC -- along with 
William “Rick” Singer, who was called the ringleader of the 
admissions scheme -- were also named as defendants.

The students claim they weren’t given a fair opportunity to be 
accepted into the elite colleges where they'd applied because 
some people were allegedly admitted based on fake athletic 
profiles and distorted SAT and ACT scores obtained through 
bribes.

"The students who filed the complaint didn’t receive what they 
paid for — to participate in an application process free of 
fraud," a statement from Zimmerman Reed LLP said. "According to 
the complaint, these schools represented that their admission 
process would be based on the applicants’ merits, considering 
their character and performance. Instead, the students allege 
that what they got was a process tainted by bribes and school 
officials who failed to assure an honest application process."

"It’s a straightforward claim and a simple remedy. The students 
want their money back," the statement continued. "They request 
that anyone who paid an application fee to any of the eight 
named universities but was denied admission gets their 
application fee returned."

Singer would obtain college acceptance letters for his clients' 
children by either helping them cheat on entrance exams or 
pretend they were being recruited as an athlete in a school 
sport, authorities said. The 58-year-old, who ran the for-profit 
college prep business Edge College & Career Network (also known 
as "The Key") and the charity Key Worldwide Foundation (KWF), 
allegedly pitched it to parents as the "side door" method to 
getting into colleges.

“Each of the universities were negligent in failing to maintain 
adequate protocols and security measures in place to guarantee 
the sanctity of the college admissions process, and to ensure 
that their own employees were not engaged in these type of 
bribery schemes,” the complaint stated.

The suit added, "Unqualified students found their way into the 
admissions rolls of highly selective universities, while those 
students who played by the rules and did not have college-
bribing parents were denied admission."

A former California teacher filed a $500 billion civil lawsuit 
Wednesday against 45 defendants involved in the college 
admissions scandal, Reuters reported. Jennifer Kay Toy said 
wealthy parents who believed it was "OK to lie, cheat, steal and 
bribe their children's way into a good college" robbed her son, 
Joshua, of the chance to be admitted to colleges despite his 4.2 
GPA.

She didn’t specify which colleges her son had sought to attend, 
nor did it specify his ultimate selection, but said those 
involved in the bribery scheme took away people’s “rights to a 
fair chance at entrance to college,” Reuters reported.

Singer pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and money 
laundering on Tuesday. A total of 50 people, including actresses 
Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, were charged over alleged 
involvement in the scheme.

Fox News' Bill Mears and Jennifer Girdon contributed to this 
report.

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