Federal prosecutors say Gordon Ernst was part of a conspiracy that infiltrated elite schools.
By Nick Anderson , Nick Anderson Reporter covering higher education, national education policy and the global education market Email Bio Follow Susan Svrluga and Susan Svrluga Reporter covering higher education for the Grade Point blog Email Bio Follow Moriah Balingit Moriah Balingit Reporter covering national education issues Email Bio Follow March 16 at 9:14 PM In the summer of 2015, Georgetown University tennis coach Gordon Ernst sent an admissions officer an email that betrayed no hint of a...
Singer offered rich parents two illicit services to get their children into elite colleges, prosecutors say: For $15,000 to $75,000, they could buy special test-taking arrangements for the SAT or ACT that provided cover for straight-up cheating; and for much larger sums, sometimes more than $1 million, they could purchase special favors in the admissions offices.
Admissions professionals have long acknowledged that recruited athletes get special handling. A federal trial — in a separate civil lawsuit over affirmative action — revealed last fall that Harvard gives a significant admissions edge to recruited athletes. More than 80 percent of its applicants with top athletic ratings in a recent six-year period were admitted, an analysis showed. The university’s overall admission rate in that time was about 7 percent.
The teams are not large. Sometimes players walk on, the university said, but most are recruits. The men’s team this year lists 12 players and the women’s team eight. The annual recruiting total varies. In a typical year, there might be five or six. On Aug. 19, 2015, an applicant allegedly forwarded an email to Ernst that contained a fake listing of tennis accomplishments. Ernst sent it along to an admissions officer, the indictment says, and then followed up two days later with the email checking on his “three spots.” All three went to Singer clients, the indictment says, and Ernst received checks totaling $700,000 from September 2015 through August 2016.
Dubyak said Georgetown first learned of alleged criminal activity when the U.S. attorney’s office contacted the university in November 2018. She said the university cooperated fully in the investigation. At Georgetown, prosecutors say, 158 admissions slots a year are designated for athletic recruiting. The Jesuit university, with about 7,400 undergraduates, has more than 600 student-athletes in 29 varsity intercollegiate programs.
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