The students claim that their applications were undercut by William "Rick" Singer’s plot to fraudulently get undeserving kids into top schools in exchange for bribes from their well-heeled parents.
The suit was originally filed Wednesday in the US District Court for Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,’s Northern District by two students at Stanford ‐ which is among the eight schools named as a defendant, along with Singer, his college-counseling business, the bogus charity he used to launder money and seven other schools to which he directed kids.
But the suit was amended and re-filed Thursday, with one of the Stanford students dropping out, but replaced by three other students from schools across the country.
Despite the students’ top-notch grades and extracurriculars, their applications to such prestigious institutions as Yale and Georgetown were rejected ‐ a fate the suit claims they might have avoided on a level playing field without Singer putting his thumb on the scale.
All told, 50 people ‐ including parents, college sports coaches and proctors ‐ were charged Tuesday in the sweeping federal probe.
Among the well-off parents caught up in the bombshell case are TV actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.
Singer pleaded guilty to charges including racketeering conspiracy Tuesday in Massachusetts federal court.
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