Getting into college is much less stressful when your parents are paying a college consultant to pretend that you're on the crew team when you've never rowed in your life. Or paying that same college consultant to get someone else to take your SATs for you. That's right — this week we're going deep on the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal. Come along as we discuss the LA dad who inadvertently tipped the feds off to the scheme, bad water polo Photoshop, and a connection to a previous episode that makes us realize that all rich people know each other.

This is Part 1! There was so much to talk about that we'll be finishing up next week.

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Sources for this episode:

• https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-morrie-tobin-college-admissions-scandal-20190331-story.html
• https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-12/college-admissions-scandal-morrie-tobin-sentenced
• https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-college-admissions-scam-tipsters-prison-sentence-reduced-4-months-stock-fraud-2021-10-01/
• https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2019/07/to-cheat-and-lie-in-la-college-admissions-scandal
• https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/08/09/ex-ceo-says-prison-in-varsity-blues-scandal-torture-under-un-standards/
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-22/operation-varsity-blues-how-pimco-s-ceo-fought-college-admissions-scandal
• https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/us/admissions-cheating-scandal-consultants.html
• https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2018/02/12/suit-reveals-elite-college-consultants-charged-family-15-million

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