Why Parents Can’t Quit the Elite College Arms Race
ByJessica Grose
The New York Times
8min
December 6, 2023
Last week, the actress Felicity Huffman made her first public comments about her role in theVarsity Blues admissions scandal, in which several wealthy parents paid a corrupt private admissions consultant named Rick Singer thousands of dollars to help them cheat to get their children into elite colleges. In 2019,Huffman pleaded guiltyto “a single count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud, acknowledging that she paid $15,000 to arrange for cheating on her daughter’s SAT test.” She spent 11 days in prison, paid a $30,000 fine and had to do community service as part of her sentence.
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