How US university admissions are broken Yale University has revoked the admission of a student whose family is accused of spending $1.2m (£907,000) in a bribery scheme to ensure admittance.
An ex-football coach allegedly accepted a $400,000 bribe to fraudulently mark the non-athletic student as a recruit.
The case is linked to the same cheating scandal that snared celebrity parents
Lori Laughlin and Felicity Huffman earlier this month.
The elite college in Connecticut said it was investigating the matter.
The university's website states that
Mr Meredith is believed to have "provided fraudulent athletic endorsements to two applicants only; one was denied admission despite the endorsement, and the other was admitted".
Yale will not name the student whose admission has been rescinded, but the university confirmed the case on Monday.
The Ivy League university, along with other top schools like the University of Southern California,
Stanford
and Georgetown, were targeted in the scam
allegedly
organised by mastermind Rick Singer.
Once the student was admitted in 2018,
Mr Meredith received the $400,000 cheque from
Mr Singer, prosecutors say.
He is expected to appear in court later this week.
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