WASHINGTON: The US Education Department has opened investigations into 8 universities tied to a major admissions rip-off, Politico has reported, mentioning other folks with reference to the topic. If the dep. finds the universities violated federal training rules, it would impose consequences up to reducing off their get right of entry to to federal pupil loans and grants.
Letters have been sent informing the presidents of Yale, Wake Forest University, the University of San Diego, Stanford, Georgetown, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles about the probe.
The move comes after the Department of Justice accused dozens of rich oldsters together with two famous actresses of being excited by an operation that charged from $15,000 to hundreds of thousands of greenbacks to help them get their youngsters into elite faculties.
According to prosecutors, the accused oldsters paid a faculty admissions consulting firm up to $6 million to cheat on entrance checks for their youngsters or to bribe coaches to help scholars be recruited for sports they didn't even play.
Letters have been sent informing the presidents of Yale, Wake Forest University, the University of San Diego, Stanford, Georgetown, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles about the probe.
The move comes after the Department of Justice accused dozens of rich oldsters together with two famous actresses of being excited by an operation that charged from $15,000 to hundreds of thousands of greenbacks to help them get their youngsters into elite faculties.
According to prosecutors, the accused oldsters paid a faculty admissions consulting firm up to $6 million to cheat on entrance checks for their youngsters or to bribe coaches to help scholars be recruited for sports they didn't even play.
US Education Department investigates 8 universities implicated in scandal: report
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