I wish I could transmit news from the college admissions scandal straight into my veins via IV drip, but for now I’ll have to settle for reading it as it comes in. This beautiful trainwreck has now brought us a Lifetime movie adaptation, a TV series on the fraud, and the delightful contents of Olivia Jade’s Youtube feed, and now this lengthy Vanity Fair article outlining how this all happened.
It’s easy to feel like a scholar on this situation given all the media and primary documents detailing these desperate rich parents and their children, but in theI was shocked to read about one application Rick Singer, the cheating ringleader, edited for an aspiring Tulane student.
But Taylor-Vaz knew this wasn’t true. Eliza was white. She didn’t play tennis competitively. And her father was Adam Bass, a wealthy board member, with a B.A. and law degree from USD. Taylor-Vaz shared the information with her superiors. Puzzled, Buckley made calls to Georgetown and Loyola Marymount. They too wanted to accept Eliza, the African American tennis wonder. Buckley set the colleges straight and promptly got to work trying to determine what on earth was going on.
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