"you may know Lori Loughlin as Aunt Becky in Fuller House—or Full House if you’re above 30— and Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo in Desperate Housewives, but if you’ve been watching the news this week, you might have seen their names in a different context. Maybe they’re both much more of desperate housewives than you think."
-Shayna Barzell-Weber
You may know Lori Loughlin as Aunt Becky in Fuller House—or Full House if you’re above 30— and Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo in Desperate Housewives, but if you’ve been watching the news this week, you might have seen their names in a different context. Maybe they’re both much more of desperate housewives than you think.
Recently, many wealthy parents have been accused of paying for their child to get better SAT scores, or to get into college. These parents include Loughlin and Huffman, as well as 48 additional parents. Loughlin and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, allegedly paid $500,000 to have their two daughters designated as crew recruits to guarantee their admission to the University of Southern California, despite the fact that neither of her daughters had ever done crew. They even went as far as editing their daughter's faces onto sailing pictures. Huffman paid $15,000 to have her daughters SAT score changed to get a better score.
Both were caught, along with 48 other parents, and many are facing jail time. Loughlin and Huffman were both released on bail. When asked about the situation, both Loughlin and Huffman refused to answer any questions. Though both do claim that they did not expect the situation to become what it has become.
This situation exposes the disparity of the college enrollment system for people who have worked hard to do well on their SATs in order to get into college. The daughters of Loughlin and Huffman took the spot of someone who probably worked much harder than them. This just shows how much easier society makes everything for the wealthy.
Despite the disadvantage this corruption revealed for aspiring students, much of the public remains sympathetic to Loughlin and Huffman. They both broke the law and made it harder for other people to get into college, yet people are still expressing sympathy for them. But the truth is that Loughlin, Huffman, and the 48 other parents involved in this situation broke the law and deserve to go to jail.
The ringleader of this whole scam—which the FBI called “Operation Varsity Blues”— is William “Rick” Singer. Parents paid him and he had different ways to help get people into college. Most of what he did included bribing SAT scorers, or people working in college admissions, to change SAT scores and to let students with average grades get into good colleges.
There are so many other people involved in this situation, some losing jobs, some getting jail time. This is a difficult situation for so many students and it would be best if every parent involved got jail time. While students are struggling to do their best on SAT’s and college applications, other people are just paying their way into college.
Recently, many wealthy parents have been accused of paying for their child to get better SAT scores, or to get into college. These parents include Loughlin and Huffman, as well as 48 additional parents. Loughlin and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, allegedly paid $500,000 to have their two daughters designated as crew recruits to guarantee their admission to the University of Southern California, despite the fact that neither of her daughters had ever done crew. They even went as far as editing their daughter's faces onto sailing pictures. Huffman paid $15,000 to have her daughters SAT score changed to get a better score.
Both were caught, along with 48 other parents, and many are facing jail time. Loughlin and Huffman were both released on bail. When asked about the situation, both Loughlin and Huffman refused to answer any questions. Though both do claim that they did not expect the situation to become what it has become.
This situation exposes the disparity of the college enrollment system for people who have worked hard to do well on their SATs in order to get into college. The daughters of Loughlin and Huffman took the spot of someone who probably worked much harder than them. This just shows how much easier society makes everything for the wealthy.
Despite the disadvantage this corruption revealed for aspiring students, much of the public remains sympathetic to Loughlin and Huffman. They both broke the law and made it harder for other people to get into college, yet people are still expressing sympathy for them. But the truth is that Loughlin, Huffman, and the 48 other parents involved in this situation broke the law and deserve to go to jail.
The ringleader of this whole scam—which the FBI called “Operation Varsity Blues”— is William “Rick” Singer. Parents paid him and he had different ways to help get people into college. Most of what he did included bribing SAT scorers, or people working in college admissions, to change SAT scores and to let students with average grades get into good colleges.
There are so many other people involved in this situation, some losing jobs, some getting jail time. This is a difficult situation for so many students and it would be best if every parent involved got jail time. While students are struggling to do their best on SAT’s and college applications, other people are just paying their way into college.
