The first lawsuits targeting elite universities and individuals charged by federal prosecutors in a sweeping college admissions scandal were filed by students and a parent in California.
In addition to Toy's civil complaint, two Stanford students filed what they're hoping will become a class-action lawsuit against the school and all the other implicated universities, claiming their degrees will not be"worth as much as" before.
Lawyers for Erica Olsen and Kalea Woods are also suing Singer, Stanford, the University of Southern California, UCLA, the University of San Diego, the University of Texas, Wake Forest, Yale and Georgetown.Win McNamee / Getty Images While Olsen and Woods both gained admission to Stanford, their top-tier school in Palo Alto, California, they claim to be damaged because of the time and money wasted on applications to other schools implicated in the scandal."Had she known that the system at Yale University was warped and rigged by fraud, she would not have spent the money to apply to the school. She also did not receive what she paid for — a fair admissions consideration process," according to Olsen's civil suit.
And even though they both got into and are now attending Stanford, ranked No. 7 in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings, their degrees now won't carry as much weight, according to the federal lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California. "Like Olsen, Woods has also been damaged because she is a student at Stanford University, another one of the universities plagued by the fraud scandal," according to the lawsuit."Her degree is now not worth as much as it was before, because prospective employers may now question whether she was admitted to the university on her own merits, versus having rich parents who were willing to bribe school officials.
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