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    College admissions scandal shows 'sacrifice matters less than money,' prosecutors say

    by Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times Jun 08, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - The college admissions scandal has shaken the country's trust in higher education and corroborated a "national fear" that the process can be rigged to favor the rich, prosecutors wrote in arguing why a coach mired in the scandal should go to prison.

    In a sentencing memorandum filed Friday, prosecutors from the U.S. attorney's office in Massachusetts described the effect of a scandal they uncovered in March - an incendiary case that has indicted not just wealthy parents from Silicon Valley, Hollywood and the Newport Coast, but the belief that there is some meritocratic calculus behind college admissions.

    Thirty-three parents have been charged. Some

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