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Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal

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Reenactments drive this documentary investigating the mastermind behind a scam to sneak the kids of rich and famous families into top US universities.
Director
Chris Smith
Year
2021
Genre
documentary, crime, drama
Box Office
N/A
Production
Library Films
Awards
1 win & 1 nomination
Homepage
https://www.netflix.com/title/81130691

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Then I need you to get him into USC, and then I need you to cure cancer, - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:06
Then I need you to get him into USC, and then I need you to ...
I could do that if you figure out a way to boot your husband out - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:11
I could do that if you figure out a way to boot your husband...
Every working mom comes to me and says, "How do I do it all?" - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:12
Every working mom comes to me and says, "How do I do it...
So we're trying to get ourselves, like, a 34 on the ACT. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:04
So we're trying to get ourselves, like, a 34 on the ACT...
Yeah. Yeah. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:11
Yeah. Yeah.
- So we can get kinda close. - Yes. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:15
- So we can get kinda close. - Yes.
My own research into Singer's life and career - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:11
My own research into Singer's life and career
I'd like to think Rick started out - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:07
I'd like to think Rick started out
If you wanted information about college admissions, you went to Rick. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:04
If you wanted information about college admissions, you went...
They were impressed and thought, "Wow, he knows the formula." - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:16
They were impressed and thought, "Wow, he knows the for...
So you do what you do. You apply money to the problem. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:04
So you do what you do. You apply money to the problem.
You find somebody who will independently help just your child, - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:06
You find somebody who will independently help just your chil...
And that's sort of the genesis of an independent college counselor. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
And that's sort of the genesis of an independent colleg...
My parents said, "We're hiring an independent college counselor - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:33
My parents said, "We're hiring an independent coll...
He had this company called Future Stars. I had many friends that used him. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:06
He had this company called Future Stars. I had many friends ...
If you didn't, you'd regret it and worry about, - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:12
If you didn't, you'd regret it and worry about,
His idea was that what he was doing was - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:08
His idea was that what he was doing was
He used to walk around in his athletic clothes, - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
He used to walk around in his athletic clothes,
There are people you meet who feel like they have this vibrating tension - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:09
There are people you meet who feel like they have this vibra...
He was always giving presentations at Borders, at the country clubs. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
He was always giving presentations at Borders, at the countr...
And I also knew what his presentations entailed, - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:08
And I also knew what his presentations entailed,
I would hear some stories from kids that made me think - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:07
I would hear some stories from kids that made me think
I have one acquaintance who said that Rick started offering him, - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:18
I have one acquaintance who said that Rick started offering ...
The word I got from people who knew him in Sacramento - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:08
The word I got from people who knew him in Sacramento
You know, changing their race from white to Latino - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:08
You know, changing their race from white to Latino
Because I was always suspicious of Rick Singer, I started to keep a file. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
Because I was always suspicious of Rick Singer, I started to...
"The Singer Group has developed into one of the US's most successful - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:16
"The Singer Group has developed into one of the US'...
Somebody told me that he pretended he'd been a board member of Starbucks. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
Somebody told me that he pretended he'd been a board me...
The more he got away with it, the more he did it. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:04
The more he got away with it, the more he did it.
We're still on the preliminary part of the case. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:11
We're still on the preliminary part of the case.
No, it's Gordon Caplan. How are you? - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
No, it's Gordon Caplan. How are you?
Yeah. Yeah. Good. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:19
Yeah. Yeah. Good.
Uh, could… could you just give me a little bit of background? - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
Uh, could… could you just give me a little bit of background...
Okay. So, who we are. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:13
Okay. So, who we are.
We help the wealthiest families in the US get their kids into school. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
We help the wealthiest families in the US get their kids int...
We have every NBA owner, every NFL owner. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:04
We have every NBA owner, every NFL owner.
Now, these families, they want guarantees. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:04
Now, these families, they want guarantees.
They don't wanna be messing around. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:12
They don't wanna be messing around.
The "back door" is making a donation, which is ten times as much money. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
The "back door" is making a donation, which is ten...
I've created this kind of side door in - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:06
I've created this kind of side door in
Best believe you have access to certain spaces that other kids don't have. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
Best believe you have access to certain spaces that other ki...
So I'm… I'm really not surprised… - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:10
So I'm… I'm really not surprised…
Something that you purchase. A product. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:04
Something that you purchase. A product.
It's a goal in and of itself, rather than the goal being to get an education. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:06
It's a goal in and of itself, rather than the goal bein...
Your status has now increased - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:09
Your status has now increased
The running line in our industry is like, "The parents are applying to college." - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:29
The running line in our industry is like, "The parents ...
It's typically accepted that Ivy League institutions - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:08
It's typically accepted that Ivy League institutions
But all of those differences have almost nothing to do - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:09
But all of those differences have almost nothing to do
U.S. News started ranking colleges in the '80s, - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:07
U.S. News started ranking colleges in the '80s,
In the original French, it means something people don't realize. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
In the original French, it means something people don't...
It means "deceit." - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
It means "deceit."
It's imaginary. It's an illusion. Yet people believe in it. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
It's imaginary. It's an illusion. Yet people belie...
It's not just population growth - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:06
It's not just population growth
Because the more selective they look on paper, the higher ranked they are. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
Because the more selective they look on paper, the higher ra...
Everything these schools are doing is massaging to try and up the rankings. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
Everything these schools are doing is massaging to try and u...
Most people see college admissions, - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:19
Most people see college admissions,
One is by preferences for students who play niche sports, - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:13
One is by preferences for students who play niche sports,
Then there's making a huge donation to a university. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:04
Then there's making a huge donation to a university.
That gets them noticed by the fundraising office, - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:07
That gets them noticed by the fundraising office,
Jared Kushner was the son of a very wealthy real estate developer - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:06
Jared Kushner was the son of a very wealthy real estate deve...
At the time Jared was applying to college, - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:16
At the time Jared was applying to college,
A lot of the colleges won't actually guarantee the admission, - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
A lot of the colleges won't actually guarantee the admi...
So you might write a check for $3 million, and the kid could be rejected. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
So you might write a check for $3 million, and the kid could...
If you're not writing a $10 to $20 million dollar check, - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:06
If you're not writing a $10 to $20 million dollar check...
Singer didn't demand the kind of money that is required today - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:08
Singer didn't demand the kind of money that is required...
You know, these parents paid Singer $300,000, $400,000, $500,000. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:06
You know, these parents paid Singer $300,000, $400,000, $500...
What he sold and what they bought - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:07
What he sold and what they bought
- You never know. - Yeah. Absolutely. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:04
- You never know. - Yeah. Absolutely.
Yeah. I know. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:06
Yeah. I know.
TPG Growth is a firm people don't know that much about. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:04
TPG Growth is a firm people don't know that much about.
TPG Growth is the $4 billion growth arm - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:10
TPG Growth is the $4 billion growth arm
You get the virtuous benefits of sustainable, scalable capitalism at work. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
You get the virtuous benefits of sustainable, scalable capit...
Last year I had a boy, I made him a long snapper. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
Last year I had a boy, I made him a long snapper.
He was 145 pounds. Long snapper. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:13
He was 145 pounds. Long snapper.
Okay. Okay, let me look through what I have. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:04
Okay. Okay, let me look through what I have.
Pretty funny the way the world works these days, it's… - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
Pretty funny the way the world works these days, it's…...
Devin Sloane, he's a California businessman, an executive. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:10
Devin Sloane, he's a California businessman, an executi...
Last year, I had a boy who did the water polo. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:21
Last year, I had a boy who did the water polo.
- That's right. - Now, does he… - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:18
- That's right. - Now, does he…
Because he is an athlete. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:06
Because he is an athlete.
What he would know is that I'm going to take his stuff - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
What he would know is that I'm going to take his stuff
That he would have no issue with, - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:06
That he would have no issue with,
- No issue. - You don't have to tell him a thing. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:09
- No issue. - You don't have to tell him a thing.
- He makes me feel guilty. - Um… - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:06
- He makes me feel guilty. - Um…
No. No, not at all. It has nothing to do with his... - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:04
No. No, not at all. It has nothing to do with his...
But he didn't know. His kid had no idea. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:10
But he didn't know. His kid had no idea.
- Okay. - All right. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:05
- Okay. - All right.
With you and with his own kid. - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:12
With you and with his own kid.
He came to me, and I said I did not… - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:07
He came to me, and I said I did not…
He obviously wants to get your help, you know, with his daughter, - Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal 00:13
He obviously wants to get your help, you know, with his daug...
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Reenactments drive this documentary investigating the mastermind behind a scam to sneak the kids of rich and famous families into top US universities.

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Director: Chris Smith
Writer: Jon Karmen
Production: Library Films
Genre: documentary, crime, drama
Year: 2021
MetaScore: 70/100
ImdbRating: 6.9
BoxOffice: N/A
Released: 17 Mar 2021
Awards: 1 win & 1 nomination
Homepage: https://www.netflix.com/title/81130691

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