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Extracted Content: Dozens of people, from famous actors to college coaches and administrators, have been charged by federal prosecutors for their roles in an admissions bribery scheme involving Yale, Stanford, and several other elite colleges, according to case documents unsealed on Tuesday.
The alleged scheme had several facets, including: Parents paid a nonprofit corporation to bribe administrators of college-entrance exams to let a third party take tests in their children’s place, according to a supporting affidavit. And the group also bribed college coaches and administrators to designate the applying students as athletes, giving them a leg up.