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    Chinese parents paid $1.2 million to get daughter into Yale. Are they victims of college admissions scandal?

    by Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times May 02, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Sherry Guo came to California five years ago, a teenager from China with dreams of attending an elite university.

    Her attorney does not dispute she got into Yale through the machinations of William "Rick" Singer, a Newport Beach consultant who defrauded the Ivy League school and similarly selective universities with bribes, rigged tests and bogus accolades.

    Singer fashioned a fake application for Guo that described her as a top-notch soccer player, which was submitted to Yale by a soccer coach who took a $400,000 bribe. Once she was admitted, Guo's family paid $1.2 million to Singer and a charity

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