Until now, admissions officers have given coaches mostly unchecked power over the designations, leading to abuse
The largest college-admissions fraud ever prosecuted by federal authorities was engineered by a college-admissions consultant and a sprawling web of wealthy parents and allegedly corrupt coaches. But it was made easier by a system that is largely unpoliced and ripe for exploitation: the conferring of special admissions status to non-scholarship athletes.
The scheme run by William Rick Singer, who pled guilty Tuesday to racketeering conspiracy and other crimes, was enabled by the manner in which athletic departments round...
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