Since so many top colleges are connected to this, (Stanford, Yale, USC, Georgetown, etc.) and since these schools have tons of money, how much would it cost them to refund the application fees to all applicants who were rejected, because they applied assuming the admissions process was fair, and it was not.
A class action suit against these schools, brought by the hundreds of thousands of students rejected over the years, might get their attention. An enterprising class-action lawyer might be able to comb the results pages of these forums to come up with potential plaintiffs - as there are lots of kids rejected every year from these great schools. I know my humble family spent a couple grand in application fees, and it’d be nice to think about getting some of that back.
The schools would try to argue they were victims, but aren’t they responsible for the actions of their employees?