White student from a wealthy family claims to be Black to get into college. The college cheating scandal has gone to a new low. A white female high school student was admitted into three prominent universities by claiming in her college applications to be an African-American tennis prodigy.
“Her parents, Amy and Adam Bass, colluded with Rick Singer, the mastermind behind the college admissions scandal, to get their daughter into prominent universities,” Diversity Inc. reported. According to Adam Bass’ profile in the LA Business Journal, his eldest daughter is Eme Bass.
Orange County attorney Bass hired Singer to help get his daughter into college, but the scam was discovered by a guidance counselor at the girl’s high school, according to Vanity Fair.
When a Tulane University admissions officer in December 2017 called Buckley School counselor Julie Taylor-Vaz to offer Bass’ daughter a spot in the next class, the scam was revealed as the admission officer mentioned to Taylor-Vaz that Bass was an African-American tennis star whose parents had never attended college.
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But Taylor-Vaz knew the student was white and didn’t play tennis. She also knew that the student’s father is a wealthy attorney with a law degree.
Buckley then called all the schools the student had applied too — Georgetown University, UC Berkeley and Loyola Marymount University — found those schools were also told she was an African-American tennis champ.
The student’s family claims it had nothing to do with the lies on the admission forms.
“Bass, the president and CEO of the Buchalter Law Firm, claimed Singer had asked for his daughter’s application file password and must have tweaked it without their knowledge. She then wrote to Georgetown and Tulane to offer the same explanation. But the schools didn’t accept the excuse, as no third-party should have had control of her application in the first place, the report says,” The New York Post reported.
