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More than 50 people, including hollywood stars lori loughlin and felicity huffman, have been convicted in the scandal. and this week marks the deadline to apply for many colleges and universities. high school seniors and their parents now waiting for potentially life-altering acceptance letters, but as stephanie gosk reports, some have a big advantage. >> reporter: a degree from a top university in this country opens doors and paves futures especially for students like christian canski, an engineering major at johns hopkins. >> did your parents go to college? >> they did not. >> how importan...

Virginia Commonwealth University mistakenly sent out emails telling applicants they had been accepted for the fall semester. Admissions decisions had not been made for all the email recipients.

I got in. >> reporter: and scholarship offers, coming one after another. >> i got into princeton! i just got accepted into all eight ivys. and the tears just started to come out. it was crazy. >> reporter: that's right, all eight ivy league schools, including princeton, yale, columbia. >> what! i got into harvard! >> reporter: but it was harvard that won her heart with a full ride in the fall. her life journey just getting started. >> i didn't expect it, but i was so happy and so grateful. >> way to go, ashley. i love that reaction to those acceptance letters. thanks so much for watching. i'm ...

The teen making her college dreams come true. >> ashley adirika. >> reporter: that's 17-year-old ashley adirika accepting her diploma from miami beach senior high school. >> one of my biggest dreams was to get accepted into an ivy league. >> reporter: a vision ashley would soon make a reality. an exceptional student and standout on the speech and debate team. >> the teacher just believed in my potential. >> reporter: but ashley also faced challenges, commuting to high school two hours each way. a first generation nigerian american, ashley says she grew up in a house full of strong women, inspi...

The rest of america and another tweet says obama is relieved not to be president any longer, millions of others, i do my happy dance over that fact frequently. to be fair i'm sure democrats miss him. >> someone else is doing a happy dance, the family and student, to 20 top colleges. >> you are about to hear the pure joy as a high school student from texas found out he received an acceptance letter from his dream school, stanford university. [screaming] >> he received, michael brown received 20 acceptance letters. what an amazing story. >> great for him.