a string of prestige uious universities. two act exam administrators, one proctor, one college administrator, nine coaches and elite schools and 33 parents who paid enormous sums to guarantee admissions to certain schools. the scheme involved two kinds of fraud, parents paying an organization to help their children cheat and others paying to allegedly bribe college coaches to admit the students as athletes regardless of their athletic skill. the prep organization at the center of the scandal. he also arranged for someone to take online high school classes in place of certain students so that those students could submit higher grades as part of the overall college application packages.