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Federal prosecutors Tuesday charged 50 people with bribery and cheating to get college applicants into prestigious universities, from Yale to Stanford, USC to Georgetown and other major colleges in between. Those charged range from Hollywood celebrities to top business leaders and even some college athletics coaches. In all, about $6.5 million of “bribery” flowed from wealthy parents to test administrators and college coaches in Olympic sports through wire fraud, money laundering and mail fraud. The bombshell report released Tuesday morning had comments flying on social media from coast to coast, and from college applicants to parents overseeing their children’s application processes. It has universities and college review boards issuing statements, and some college coaches have already been terminated. Rep. Jimmy Gomez from Los Angeles said he was “pissed off” at the college admissions scam, of which two of the stated schools — UCLA and USC — are in his backyard. “Frankly, I’m pissed off! I worked 2 jobs and went to a #CommunityCollege so I could go to @UCLA and the @Kennedy_School. How many kids who share my story were robbed of THEIR opportunity by parents who bribed their way through the system?”

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