The Stars Behind College Admissions Scandal Are Getting Roasted By Fellow Celebs

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March 14, 2019

Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman and Full House mainstay Lori Loughlin were among 50 individuals charged by the FBI in relation to an alleged fraud scheme to secure admissions for students at elite American universities.

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Huffman was arrested at her home by armed FBI agents and was later released on bail after her husband, Shameless actor William H. Macy paid $250,000 to have her released.

Loughlin was out of town at the time due to filming but has since turned herself in to authorities. Her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, appeared in court on Tuesday, as did Felicity Huffman.

Among the alleged offences: six-figure bribes paid to college athletic coaches to vouch for applicants who may not have even competed in those sports, the use of stand-ins to take the all-important SAT and ACT entrance exams, and payments directed to test administrators to correct answers before submission.

Some of the most prestigious and exclusive higher-education facilities in America, including Stanford University, Yale University, and UCLA, were allegedly targeted by the scheme.

William “Rick” Singer, 58, has been charged with operating a racketeering scheme through his business Edge College & Career Network, which serviced an array of rich people like Hollywood celebrities and CEOs.

The scandal has gone viral across the internet, forcing Huffman to disable commenting on her Instagram posts and Loughlin to delete all her social accounts entirely.

In the meantime, many other celebs have taken to social media to either criticise and condemn the parents or roast them over the scandal.

James Van Der Beek

https://twitter.com/vanderjames/status/1105567685344030720

Samantha Bee

BREAKING NEWS: ENTRANCE INTO COLLEGE UNJUST, TILTED IN FAVOR OF WHITE KIDS WITH RICH PARENTS.

— Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (@FullFrontalSamB) March 12, 2019

Lena Dunham

all the people involved in this college scam should have gathered their money and started a small elite college where Lori Loughlin teaches a class on smiling

— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) March 12, 2019

Patton Oswold

Harvard: Sorry Mr & Mrs Oswalt your son is at best a C+ student

My dad: (snaps fingers)

Fleegle from The Banana Splits enters, carrying a briefcase of $20 bills

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 12, 2019

Bethenny Frankel

So I am fascinated with this college entrance bribery scam. What is wrong with people? It’s like social media. Everyone has to front. Go to the school you can get into it or don’t go to school at all.

— Bethenny Frankel (@Bethenny) March 12, 2019

Scamming to get sympathy that you were gay bashed. Scamming to brag to your friends about how smart your kid is. What’s next? https://t.co/yzJsTINOVi

— Bethenny Frankel (@Bethenny) March 12, 2019

I literally said this on @tmz page. Donating a building is a form of bribery. I guess knowing someone is too but there has to be a line… https://t.co/hifM1DWolN

— Bethenny Frankel (@Bethenny) March 12, 2019

I mean I cannot believe parents not only being vile, pig, braggy #blessed assholes but to also falsely make their kids think they tested exponentially higher than their actual potential? What next? The kids feel depressed bc they can’t handle the workload of those schools?

— Bethenny Frankel (@Bethenny) March 12, 2019

Yes, and I haven’t donated buildings, BUT sending ur kid into some scam to make them think they scored high & got in on their own merit is different. https://t.co/N8umAbXA2W

— Bethenny Frankel (@Bethenny) March 12, 2019

But wait, how do the kids not know they got in on a crew scholarship? If you ask your kid to stand in front of a crew boat, aren’t they curious? I’m just confused all around.

— Bethenny Frankel (@Bethenny) March 12, 2019

And….if you see a bethenny building and my kid in a classroom (which will not happen) then you know the deal. It’s not some surreptitious scam.

— Bethenny Frankel (@Bethenny) March 12, 2019

Also, at this point, these schools are businesses and brands no different than Prada or GUCCI. They market so you want to go there and make it inaccessible. Schools that would let in my dog Smallz 20 years ago are now hard to get into.

— Bethenny Frankel (@Bethenny) March 12, 2019

The kids know. If a kid isn’t smart enough to know their leg isn’t broken or they don’t take crew or that it’s not their bar mitzvah that day, they should be applying to bubblegum University. Rich parents further protecting the kids. Ok I’ll stop… maybe.

— Bethenny Frankel (@Bethenny) March 12, 2019

This is a cleansing for the college app process which is BS. While many of the “brand name” schools provide an excellent education, schools are businesses. Go where you can afford, get an education & get on with it. It’s become a status symbol. Plenty of Ivy grads are jobless.

— Bethenny Frankel (@Bethenny) March 13, 2019

Ps. I graduated from NYU, a very hard school to get into. It would not have mattered where I went. I just wanted to check the box like people I knew at the time. And it NEVER comes up in business where I went. Literally NEVER. People mortgaging houses for this process.

— Bethenny Frankel (@Bethenny) March 13, 2019

And I’m all about public school if the education is good. At the fancy private schools, pickup is like a fashion show and kids compare private planes.

— Bethenny Frankel (@Bethenny) March 13, 2019