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Admissions scandal: Mom who rigged son's ACT, lied about his race gets 3 weeks in prison

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge handed down a three-week prison sentence for Marjorie Klapper, a white Menlo Park mother whose son applied to college with a fraudulent ACT score and an application that falsely portrayed him as black, Latino and the first in his family to attend college.

To ensure her son got a top score on his ACT exam, Klapper admitted she paid $15,000 to William "Rick" Singer, a Newport Beach college admissions consultant who has admitted fixing dozens of ACT and SAT

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