HARTFORD, Conn. _ Yale University has rescinded the admission of one student in connection with a sweeping scandal revealed this month that also implicated the university's former soccer coach.
Thomas Conroy, a spokesman for the university, said Monday morning that the unnamed student's admission was revoked in connection with the scandal, but did not elaborate how the student was associated with the university. It's not immediately clear if the university believes any other students were involved in the scandal that led to the indictment of dozens of people paying fortunes to get their children into elite colleges.
The former Yale women's soccer coach, Rudy Meredith, was among those indicted in the admission scandal that prosecutors say was orchestrated by California businessman William "Rick" Singer.
According to court documents, Singer took a $1.2 million bribe from a parent to get a student into Yale.
At the time the indictments were announced in mid-March, Conroy said: "As the indictment makes clear, the Department of Justice believes that Yale has been the victim of a crime perpetrated by its former women's soccer coach. The university has cooperated fully in the investigation and will continue to cooperate as the case moves forward."
Meredith, who resigned in November after serving 24 years as the Yale women's soccer coach, was accused of taking a $400,000 check from the family of a Yale applicant he ensured would be put on the team, federal court documents show. Meredith, who has agreed to plead guilty to charges including wire fraud, worked with Singer, prosecutors said.
"Beginning in or about 2015, Meredith agreed with Singer and others known and unknown to the United States Attorney to accept bribes in exchange for designating applicants to Yale as recruits for the Yale women's soccer team, and thereby facilitating their admission to the university, in violation of the duty of honest services he owed to Yale as his employer," authorities wrote in charging documents.
The applicant, authorities said, did not play competitive soccer and Singer created a falsified athletic profile that showed the student was the co-captain of a prominent Southern California soccer team.
Authorities also accused Meredith of agreeing to take another $450,000 bribe from the father of student attempting to get into Yale.
In a letter to the community, Yale President Peter Salovey said he was "committed to making certain the integrity of the admissions and athletic recruitment processes is not undermined again."
Salovey said at the time that Yale may take addition actions and said he was working with athletic director and dean of undergraduate admissions to make changes needed to protect Yale from criminal behavior of this kind.
