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Prior to today's sentencing, huffman wrote, i have a deep and abiding shame over what i have done. shame and regret that i will carry for the rest of my life. huffman admits to paying the mastermind of the scandal, rick singer, $15,000 to alter her oldest daughter's test scores. in that same memo, she explains how she worked with singer legitimately for a year on her daughter's college application process before saying "yes" to the cheating scheme. it's a decision she says has damaged her relationship with her daughter. quote, when my daughter looked at me and asked with tears streaming down h...

Include questions of circumstance, that would be fine. but for that role to be assumed by the administrator of the test itself, that's what strikes me as overreach. second, i worry that any broad assessment of one's neighborhood makes assumptions about what's going on in particular homes that might not be accurate. i'm fond of the island saying. if you dent know if the roof leaks until you live inside. what about families whose upscale appearances disguises the hardship indoors? and third, i worry at this punishes a student in an advantage neighborhood, maybe a white middle class student who s...

Increased since then is that there is an entire underbelly of an industry devoted to coaching students on theirs sates, specialized tutors tasked with increasing an s.a.t. score a certain number of points. there are even coaches that will walk you through every step of your college application process, down to what to say in interviews and even where to apply. so i feel that while, obviously, this most recent scandal is an extreme example, there are elements of inequity in higher education happening all the time that we're simply not talking about. >> i think some people will hear what you're ...

Warner content including turner is that at&t would have unfair leverage over their competitors, we'd be able to get higher prices out of them, attract more subvibers and the government is alleging that your every day cable bills would go up. at&t says that's not the case but it's ultimately up to the judge to decide that. >> why is that interesting? it's interesting because while that is sometimes done in bench trials, okay, it does suggest that this judge is at least open to a compromise situation which changes the stakes dramatically. brian, let's bring you into this. if there are apportionm...

Trying to logon to that website, you'd probably think they were talking about the obama care mess. but for kids applying for college are probably talking about common app. >> reporter: the most stressful part getting to these beautiful campuses is this, the dreaded college application process. it's become a cultural touch stone. >> gymnastics national champion. my father is cuban and in a wheelchair. >> reporter: for this year's grab of high school seniors there's more angst than usual. a website designed to make the process easier is plagued by glitches, login errors, lagging credit card paym...