Night Watch: The Biggest College Admissions Scam Ever: Operation Varsity Blues

Rick Singer didn’t just bend the college admissions process. He sold a way around it. He is as con-man as they come: promising wealthy families guaranteed acceptance to elite universities through a secret “side door” powered by fake athletic profiles, bribed coaches, rigged test scores, and a nonprofit used to move millions without raising alarms. For years, he and his clients thought they could get away with it. But the feds were watching the entire time.

In the final episode of Night Watch: University Week, Katie breaks into Operation Varsity Blues, uncovering everything from Olivia Jade to other fake rowing recruits. From wiretaps and indictments to prison sentences and lingering questions, this is the story of how privilege rewrote the rules…and whether anything has truly changed since.

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