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Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal

I'd like to thinkRick started out trying to be professionaland trying to be legitimate

I'd like to think
Rick started out trying to be professional
and trying to be legitimate

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I'd like to think Rick started out
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trying to be professional and trying to be legitimate.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
65
Timestamp in Movie
00:06:13
Uploaded
May 10, 2025
Genres
documentary, crime, drama
Production
Library Films

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Movie Summary

Reenactments drive this documentary investigating the mastermind behind a scam to sneak the kids of rich and famous families into top US universities.
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...