Imagine all of the hard work that goes into your SAT’s and ACT. Practically all of your schooling leads up to these tests, and if you are going to college, this is the determining factor for the biggest influence on the rest of your life.

Now imagine not getting into your choice school because the kid next to you during testing paid $75,000 to increase their score and get into the university you’ve been working for since you first heard its name.

This week, the media’s erupted with a new story: fifty people, including two SAT/ACT administrators, an exam proctor, a college administrator, a CEO, and actresses Lori Loughlin (Full House, ABC, and Fuller House, Netflix) and Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives, ABC), cheated their way to getting their kids into college by paying anywhere from $15,000 to $75,000 per test to better their scores, be admitted into colleges, and play competitive college sports (even if their kids had never played sports).

So, how the heck were colleges letting this happen?

According to CNN, William Rick Singer, a CEO college administrator, would bribe test administrators to allow him to either edit and add his own answers to the student’s test or take the test himself. Then, he would help the student enter sports on a college level by bribing coaches and faking backgrounds, regardless of that student’s history with the sport.

Why does this affect students at Tahoma? Because if everyone paid their way into colleges, it wouldn’t be fair if you weren’t able to pay the colleges/administrators, even if you had the best grades, and they refused you a spot at your chosen school.

Officials are looking into the topic more, and information will be released to the public as we find out more.