A massive college admissions scandal is making headlines as wealthy parents are caught bribing their kids’ way onto campus.

A massive college admissions scandal is making headlines as wealthy parents are caught bribing their kids’ way onto campus. In what the FBI is calling “Operation Varsity Blues,” coaches and administrators at USC, UCLA, Yale, Stanford, and others were allegedly paid $25 million between 2011 and 2018 to fake students’ test scores and status as athletic recruits. The College Board and the schools themselves are cracking down on admissions processes and firing those that accepted bribes, while many accused parents have been arrested. Already skeptical Gen Z’s takeaway just might be that yet another once-trusted institution is a scam. (BuzzFeed News)