His Father Paid $400,000 to Get Him Into Georgetown. Now He’s Suing the School.

[Anonymous]

Yikes. Another aftershock from the college admissions scandal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/us/georgetown-expels-students.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage

Georgetown University said Wednesday that it planned to dismiss two students connected to the college admissions scandal. Just hours earlier, one of those students, Adam Semprevivo, whose father has pleaded guilty in the case, sued Georgetown for threatening to expel him, saying that the university had denied him due process and that it should have been aware of misrepresentations on his application long before the Justice Department announced charges in the nation’s largest college admissions prosecution earlier this year.

Georgetown did not identify either student, but Mr. Semprevivo’s lawyer, David Kenner, said he had received an email from Georgetown informing him that his admission had been rescinded and that he would be dismissed.

Mr. Semprevivo, 21, who is from Los Angeles, just finished his junior year at the college in Washington, D.C. His father, Stephen Semprevivo, pleaded guilty last week to paying a college consultant $400,000 to secure his son’s admission to Georgetown as a recruit to the tennis team, even though the son did not play tennis competitively. According to the lawsuit, Adam has a 3.18 grade point average in college so far. He has not been charged in the case, nor have any other students, though several have received target letters from prosecutors.

Mr. Kenner said that dismissal was too harsh a punishment.

“It’s a life sentence,” he said. “He’s lost three years of his life, studying, getting good grades, doing everything that was expected of him.” He added it could be difficult for Mr. Semprevivo to gain admission to another college and that the dismissal could also affect his job prospects. “Potentially this will follow him for the rest of his life.”

[Anonymous]

I do think that they should give him his credits if he did the work while there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yikes. Another aftershock from the college admissions scandal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/us/georgetown-expels-students.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage

Georgetown University said Wednesday that it planned to dismiss two students connected to the college admissions scandal. Just hours earlier, one of those students, Adam Semprevivo, whose father has pleaded guilty in the case, sued Georgetown for threatening to expel him, saying that the university had denied him due process and that it should have been aware of misrepresentations on his application long before the Justice Department announced charges in the nation’s largest college admissions prosecution earlier this year.

Georgetown did not identify either student, but Mr. Semprevivo’s lawyer, David Kenner, said he had received an email from Georgetown informing him that his admission had been rescinded and that he would be dismissed.

Mr. Semprevivo, 21, who is from Los Angeles, just finished his junior year at the college in Washington, D.C. His father, Stephen Semprevivo, pleaded guilty last week to paying a college consultant $400,000 to secure his son’s admission to Georgetown as a recruit to the tennis team, even though the son did not play tennis competitively. According to the lawsuit, Adam has a 3.18 grade point average in college so far. He has not been charged in the case, nor have any other students, though several have received target letters from prosecutors.

Mr. Kenner said that dismissal was too harsh a punishment.

“It’s a life sentence,” he said. “He’s lost three years of his life, studying, getting good grades, doing everything that was expected of him.” He added it could be difficult for Mr. Semprevivo to gain admission to another college and that the dismissal could also affect his job prospects. “Potentially this will follow him for the rest of his life.”

Oh for f&*k's sake. He needs to grow up. He signed his name to a falsified application and the college says that admission can be revoked if that is discovered. Shame on the lawyer who took this case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do think that they should give him his credits if he did the work while there.

I didn't get a sense of the article that he wouldn't get the credits he earned, just that he was being expelled and would need to find another college willing to accept him (and his credits) so he could finish his degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yikes. Another aftershock from the college admissions scandal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/us/georgetown-expels-students.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage

Georgetown University said Wednesday that it planned to dismiss two students connected to the college admissions scandal. Just hours earlier, one of those students, Adam Semprevivo, whose father has pleaded guilty in the case, sued Georgetown for threatening to expel him, saying that the university had denied him due process and that it should have been aware of misrepresentations on his application long before the Justice Department announced charges in the nation’s largest college admissions prosecution earlier this year.

Georgetown did not identify either student, but Mr. Semprevivo’s lawyer, David Kenner, said he had received an email from Georgetown informing him that his admission had been rescinded and that he would be dismissed.

Mr. Semprevivo, 21, who is from Los Angeles, just finished his junior year at the college in Washington, D.C. His father, Stephen Semprevivo, pleaded guilty last week to paying a college consultant $400,000 to secure his son’s admission to Georgetown as a recruit to the tennis team, even though the son did not play tennis competitively. According to the lawsuit, Adam has a 3.18 grade point average in college so far. He has not been charged in the case, nor have any other students, though several have received target letters from prosecutors.

Mr. Kenner said that dismissal was too harsh a punishment.

“It’s a life sentence,” he said. “He’s lost three years of his life, studying, getting good grades, doing everything that was expected of him.” He added it could be difficult for Mr. Semprevivo to gain admission to another college and that the dismissal could also affect his job prospects. “Potentially this will follow him for the rest of his life.”

Maybe he should change his name to something other than SempreVivo

[Anonymous]

Honestly I support him. The schools are doing nothing to take ownership of their role in all this corruption other than throwing the coaches under the bus. I have no doubt that the coaches were led to believe if they had open recruitment spots they could go ahead and accept cash for them as long as the recruits families had big pockets and would probably donate to the school.

[Anonymous]

Oh FFS.

He knew he was admitted fraud.

His defense is: you should have stopped me from doing illegal things earlier

Having to transfer isn’t a life sentence. And it will only follow him because he committed a crime and then filed a lawsuit and went public.

And 3.18 isn’t really “good grades”.

[Anonymous]

The fall out for kids will be the sequel. It will be an even bigger shit show. What if one school allows an unknowing kid to remain enrolled? Another doesn't? One gets to transfer earned credits and so on...yeesh

[Anonymous]

Nope, he should not be able to keep the credits. He knew his application was fraudulent so he should not accrue any benefits as a result of the fraud - starting from the moment the fraud began.

[Anonymous]

Going after the kids... really Jesuits... really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Going after the kids... really Jesuits... really?

The lying kids? Who aren’t kids, rather 21 years old? Um, yes.

[Anonymous]

Talk about chutzpah!

[Anonymous]

I wonder if most of the kids in these cases do realize that their parents paid bribes?

Even if they don't, coming down hard on the kids as well as the parents is the only way to stop this nonsense. Parents should be terrified of tanking their kid's future by pulling such shenanigans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do think that they should give him his credits if he did the work while there.

Oh cute! How about the kid who did not get in because he sneaked in sued his ass for the lost wages and lost life opportunities?
Colleges do have a list of students so they take form the top, so whoever was next and did not get in that is your kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if most of the kids in these cases do realize that their parents paid bribes?

Even if they don't, coming down hard on the kids as well as the parents is the only way to stop this nonsense. Parents should be terrified of tanking their kid's future by pulling such shenanigans.

Like umm.. if you would cut a hole in the fence of a country club and push your kid in and send him to enjoy the fabulous banquet,
nobody would really mind, not at all. Especially when they found out that the privileged kid sneaked in without paying the "dues"
whichever the dues in each case are, in this case academic dues.