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Dr. Dre made light of the college admissions cheating scandal and shared some personal family news on his Instagram, writing that his daughter Truly Young got into the University of Southern California “all on her own. No jail time!!!” Young reposted her dad’s photo and shared on her Instagram Story that “all my hard work paid off. I’m going to film school.”
But outlets like People were quick to note that Dr. Dre, along with music mogul Jimmy Iovine, donated $70 million to the school in 2013. Their donation established the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation, so should Young enroll at USC, she will be at a school where her father has a building named after him.
Generally speaking, large donations to universities are a legal way for parents to boost their child’s chances of being granted admission there. The Los Angeles Times ran a feature two days ago detailing how in addition to GPA and test scores (which are obviously weighted higher), an applicant’s parent being a donor is taken into consideration with admission decisions.
Dr. Dre’s jail time quip appears to be a reference to the parents, including Lori Loughlin, who were indicted in the FBI college admissions case. In the case of Loughlin and her two daughters, USC students Olivia Jade and Isabella Giannulli, Loughlin was arrested for allegedly paying $500,000 to make it appear that both girls had been coxswain recruits for the rowing team to guarantee their admission to the university. She was released on a $1 million bond and is due in court again on April 3. A source told Us Weekly earlier this week that Loughlin hasn’t “fully grasped the extent of [her] alleged crimes or the possibility of prison time.”
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