It's been one day since the FBI announced those charges.

Investigators say the scandal was designed to guarantee wealthy kids admission to colleges. Parents involved, at times, paid up to $6.5 million to cheat the system.

The scandal included falsifying admission documents, bribing officials and tampering with standardized test scores. 

Spectrum News spoke with officials at Kaplan Test Preps. They say students are already battling anxiety over test-taking, they hope this situation doesn't make it worse.

"To hear that some people may have cheated their way into college could be disappointing, but I think the college admissions process still remains one that is characterized by integrity. The fact that there is prosecution that is happening hopefully can restore confidence that when there are bad actors coming into a system like this, they will be found and they will be prosecuted," said Sam Pritchard, Kaplan Test Prep Pre-College Programs Director.

According to a 2014 Kaplan study, 25-percent of admissions officers said they have felt pressured to accept an applicant who didn’t meet their school’s requirements because of who that applicant knew.