Here's who qualifies for the class-action lawsuit filed in response to the admissions scandal via CNBCMakeIt
On Wednesday, current Stanford University students Erica Olsen and Kalea Woods filed a class-action lawsuit against eight colleges mentioned in a $25 million college bribery case filed by the Justice Department on Tuesday.
The class-action suit claims more than $5 million in damages, arguing that"unqualified students found their way into the admissions rolls of highly selective universities, while those students who played by the rules and did not have college-bribing parents were denied admission." Olsen and Woods are representing a wide range of people. Here's who qualifies for the class-action lawsuit:
This means that if you paid to have your application considered at one of these eight schools between 2012 and 2018 and were then denied admission, you may be able to earn funds as a result of Olsen and Woods' case.
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