Edited sentence: During the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal, wherein dozens of wealthy parents, including multiple celebrities were charged with using bribery and fraud to obtain admission into elite college and universities for their children, it was revealed that at least one of the defendant parents had specifically  named ASU as a university they were deliberately trying to prevent t child from ultimately attending.The exceptional extent of ASU's non-selectivity in the admissions process, has been the "butt of jokes" by late night comedians and referenced in American TV shows and movies, for many years