After the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal last year, which implicated dozens of people including actress Lori Loughlin, universities began to receive increased scrutiny for the admissions practices that allowed wealthy, well-connected parents to bribe officials at top-tier universities across the country.
In response to the scandal, the University of California, the elite public university system that serves over 200,000 undergraduate students and includes UC Berkeley and UCLA, announced that it would conduct an audit to assess its “controls over athletic admissions,” as well as controls over the entire admissions process.
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