Louisiana high school senior gets into 115 colleges
Antoinette Love has a difficult decision ahead of her.
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Antoinette Love has a difficult decision ahead of her.
The former tennis coach at the University of Texas at Austin who accepted $100,000 in bribes in the college admissions scam pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud on Wednesday, federal prosecutors said.
Earlier this month, federal investigators blew the cover of wealthy parents who allegedly went too far to buy their children a ticket to college.
Mark Riddell and Rudy Meredith, two of the main cooperating witnesses in the college admissions scandal, have signed plea agreements with prosecutors in exchange for lesser sentences, according to court documents.
During final arguments Wednesday in the case against Harvard's affirmative action practices, lawyers offered starkly different versions of how Asian-American applicants are treated and clashed over racial diversity on campus.
Lawyers on both sides of the closely watched case brought on behalf of Asian-Americans against Harvard will have a last chance on Wednesday to try to convince a federal judge of their respective positions on affirmative action.
Chinese universities are leading Asia's rise in global university rankings, though the top 10 list is dominated by leading institutions in the United Kingdom and United States.