USC is not the only school facing questions, but it was the most frequent target in alleged admissions scheme
By Moriah Balingit , Moriah Balingit Reporter covering national education issues Email Bio Follow Susan Svrluga and Susan Svrluga Reporter covering higher education for the Grade Point blog Email Bio Follow Nick Anderson Nick Anderson Reporter covering higher education, national education policy and the global education market Email Bio Follow March 19 at 8:03 PM LOS ANGELES — To Kwaku Rogers, son of Ghanaian immigrants, the University of Southern California offers a ticket to get ahead in life.
Frederick J. Ryan Jr., publisher and chief executive of The Washington Post, is also a member of the board. He declined to comment. “One of the things we want to understand is how the process was falsified and what steps individuals were taking to cover up their actions,” Austin said. Given what is now known, she said, it is a challenge “to look back at the facts and say, ‘Why didn’t you recognize something as a yellow flashing light?’ ”
“Rick Singer’s a sales guy and a con guy,” the lawyer said, suggesting that parents were unaware their money would be put to illegal use. “They didn’t know what the scheme was. They knew that they were giving money to help their kid get into the school.”Over and over, the investigation found, the school that many of the accused parents sought for their children was USC. Court documents allege that one father conspired with Singer to create a fake profile of his son as a football player.
In 2016, for instance, prosecutors quote Singer as saying that Heinel wanted to help an applicant pose as a coxswain for the crew team. That applicant was granted conditional admission in October 2016, and the father allegedly sent Heinel a check that month for $50,000, payable to USC athletics. But 21 percent have enough financial need to qualify for federal Pell Grants — a higher share than what is found at many prominent private research universities. USC also has built an unusually wide pipeline of transfer students from community colleges.
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