Georgetown University expels two students caught in college admissions scandal

Georgetown University fired two students Wednesday as part of the massive university admissions scandal. On the same day, one of them filed a federal lawsuit in the hope of blocking his ouster.

Adam Semprevivo has just completed his first year at the prestigious Jesuit University and should not be expelled or incur academic sanctions for unlawful acts committed by his father, according to the student's civil action filed in federal court in Washington.

Adam Semprevivo was trained in "Operation Varsity Blues," a vast federal investigation involving Georgetown, Yale, Stanford, the University of Southern California and Wake Forest University. Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were also involved in the scandal. Huffman pleaded guilty to fraud this week by paying a repairman to increase the chances of his daughter's admission to college.

The father of Adam Semprevivo, the Los Angeles business executive, Stephen Semprevivo, has already pleaded guilty to having paid $ 400,000 US for the Georgetown tennis coach, Gordon Ernst, make his son pass as a star tennis player so that he can be admitted.

In the student's federal complaint, Adam Semprevivo asserted that he had no idea what his father, Ernst and the leader of the operation, William Rick Singer, was doing. He added that Singer had filed an application for admission, accompanied by a fake documentation of his prowess to tennis, without his knowledge.

A few hours after Semprevivo's lawsuit in the US District Court, Georgetown announced the expulsion of two student victims of the scandal.

Parents of four Georgetown students were involved by federal prosecutors when the vast investigation was revealed in March.

Two of the four students have already graduated and the other two, Adam Semprevivo, being one of them, were still in school in March.

While Georgetown refused to name the two ousted students, Los Angeles-based Adam Semprevivo's lawyer, David Kenner, confirmed that his client had been deported. Kenner told NBC News that his party would change their lawsuit and request the readmission of Adam Semprevivo to Georgetown for the fall session.

Or at least, they want their client's three-year credits to be released without any conditions so that he can graduate from another school.

"Failing to bring him back to Georgetown, we want him to leave with credits intact without any negative reference in his transcripts," Kenner said. "We do not want his life to be lost for three years."

In his lawsuit, Adam Semprevivo claimed to have obtained a SAT score of 1980 – 640 in reading, 640 in math and 700 dissertation – and a weighted average of 4.067 points at Campbell Hall High School in Los Angeles. questionable strings to shoot on his behalf in Georgetown.

He even blamed Georgetown for the disorder, saying the school should have realized that his records in high school made no mention of tennis.

"Even a cursory review of both documents (request versus transcript) would have clearly shown that they were absolutely inconsistent," the lawsuit said.

Adam Semprevivo earned a 3.18 GPA in Georgetown and the family paid more than $ 200,000 in school tuition.