Authorities say, former Yale women's soccer coach Rudy Meredith received a $400,000 payment for designating a non-athlete as a recruit. By Des Bieler Des Bieler Sports reporter covering national topics, including fantasy football, as well as supporting coverage of D.C.-area teams Email Bio Follow March 26 at 12:17 AM Yale confirmed Monday that it rescinded the admission of a student linked to the college admissions cheating and bribery scandal.
The FBI also said it “surreptitiously recorded” Meredith in April 2018 demanding a $450,000 bribe and accepting partial payments from a parent in exchange for designating another student as a soccer recruit. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that authorities were tipped off to Singer’s scheme by a financial executive who was seeking leniency in an unrelated securities-fraud case and who claimed that he had been approached by Meredith for a bribe.
On Sunday, Conroy told Yale’s student newspaper, the Daily News, that the school has hired outside counsel to help with an internal review, but he said Yale does not believe that any other students were involved apart from the one whose admission was rescinded and another who was denied admission. An attorney for former USC water polo coach Jovan Vavic, who also pleaded not guilty Monday, said his client “is not only a highly decorated water polo coach, having won 14 national championships, but a great family man of renowned integrity.” The attorney added, “He is innocent of these charges and will prove so in court.”
It's a useless step unless Yale and other universities stop legacy admissions, admissions to kids of big donors and other ways of entry which are not based on merit. This is just an attempt to be politically correct & give an impression that Yale is against unethical admissions
I can’t quite find it in my heart to feel sorry for the spawn of the rich whose parents broke the law so they could be admitted into an Ivy League school. Question is: will our judicial system hold their rich parents accountable for the laws they broke?
Ques: How did the student perform? Were they complicit or did they think they got in on merit? Did they get a refund? Do they get to keep the course credits? What policy decisions has Yale made as a result of this scandal?
good, but that doesn't stop the problem that things like this are happening every single year. it really pays to be rich
Thinking this morning of apartheid, nowhere in America is it more apparent than in New Haven Connecticut, as the dispossessed black population lives under brutal policing while over an invisible line the rich and often white privileged elites plot their righteous dominance
Schools allowing the cheaters to continue are speaking volumes about their programs.
way cheaper just to raise a smart kid IMO
This would be the sacrificial lamb. Now we can go about our business because Yale aggressively addressed thier history of favoring the undeserving children of the privileged elite. WHEW, I feel better.
Time for mom and dad to sit junior down and explain that sometimes parents can best teach their children by showing them in spectacular fashion how not to act. They can all walk away from this as better people. Here's hoping they do.
After getting caught
I want the name.
eli can't take no $400G tuition
My kid would have to be the next Einstein for me to spend 1.2 million to get them into Yale and clearly they weren’t since they couldn’t get in on their own. Raise the god damn tax rate on the rich NOW, these people need it for their own good.
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