Varsity Blues mind plans to resume college counseling

William (Rick) Singer, who spent 16 months in a federal prison camp for masterminding the 2019 Varsity Blues admissions scandal, is preparing to launch a new legitimate college counseling company. The Wall Street Journal informed

He said to diary he finished “living in the gray” and has made a “concerted effort to live in black and white.”

Singer pleaded guilty in 2019 to four federal charges for selling wealthy families what he called a “side door” for their children to highly selective colleges. Among other things, he bribed athletic trainers at institutions such as Yale University and the University of Southern California to accept students as athletic recruits, regardless of their abilities, and paid testing center administrators to ignore the ‘cheating on the SAT and the ACT. In the process, he earned about $25 million.

Singer cooperated with prosecutors in the case, delaying his sentencing until last year. More than 50 other people, including Division I coaches and Hollywood actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, pleaded guilty or were convicted in the scheme.

Now Singer is finishing his sentence in a halfway house in the Los Angeles area, the diary he reported, planning his new venture, ID Future Stars, from there.

He said people continued to request his services even when he was in prison.

“They care about their kids,” she said diary. “They want, in my opinion, the best possible person to work with them. They trusted me and knew we knew things better than anyone.”

It promised to charge “reasonable” fees for its services, which will also include finding jobs and apprenticeships for high school graduates who don’t plan to attend college.

“I’ve had four and a half, five years to eat my humble pie and move on,” he said. “I’m all for moving forward.”