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The court documents detail that she and her husband paid $15,000 to singer to get him to take the -- change scores for her daughter's s.a.t. tests which, in turn, made her test score higher in order to get admitted. in the case of lori loughlin, the court documents show that she and her husband paid singer to create a fake crew profile so that she could get into usc as a crew recruit each though she never rowed the sport. incredible detail in these documents. a lot of people who are named are pleading guilty. they're coming to court today. and some are waiting to be arrested at this point. but...

Shep, there will be more folks stepping into the courtroom in this investigation far from over. >> shepard: so some coaches and some hollywood stars. what more do we know about those who have been charged? >> >> there are some 50 defendants in this case 10 10 current former ceo. two test administrators and one very, very talented test-taker named mark rodel could give someone an excellent test score or particular improvement one could be looking t for. lowe laughlin known for role in full house and another actress fell his city huffman of desperate housewives fame. unclear how many names we ma...

How well do you want your child to do, what do you want the score to be? then someone would change their test score, submit it to somebody in turn, an a.c.t. who was also being bribed and was also in on the scam. so you're right, it was changing academic standards, changing test scores, and also phonying up athletic backgrounds. in some cases photoshopping the pictures of these students onto the bodies of actual athletes. >> i know for sure you got into school the right way, pete williamsen, the smartest guy in our room, thank you very much, pete. and meanwhile, after receiving a controversial...

Answers were similar to other test takers. great to see both of you have morning. thank you so much for being with us. let's start at the beginning. the first time you took the sat, i think you got a score of 900. what did you think of that score and what was your plan after that? >> that score was just a basic baseline for me. i just took it to get a feel for how i was so i could know my strengths and weaknesses in the test, so from that point i knew, well, i need to work on this or that because it let me know what was my weakness. >> that's what her high school guidance counselor told her to...

Here. we know test scores are highly correlated with socioeconomic status. you can actually see that from some of the research now. i think the thing that we've done is we've backed ourtzs in a corner because we live in this area where it's that one number, that test score. >> i love this word. test ocracy. >> it became very big since the passage of no child left behind. we backed ourselves in a corner as a country because that is the one metric we use to determine what academic excellence is for children. when groups are designated as not high test performing groups they become stigmatized as...