<p>Wow . . . sure takes a long time for even smaht people to catch up with blatant lying.</p>
<p>P.S. Sorry, waitlistees from 2006 :-(</p>
<p>OMG.
totally second : "Sorry, waitlistees from 2006 
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<p>I’m still trying to figure out how he managed to forge an official MIT transcript AND College Board score results without someone in the admissions office noticing. Something smells fishy…</p>
<p>similar to a story at Yale about 2 years ago.</p>
<p>New York Times on same story: </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/17/us/AP-US-ODD-Academic-Fraud-Probe.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/17/us/AP-US-ODD-Academic-Fraud-Probe.html</a></p>
<p>This has happened a number of times. Way back when I was young, a student faked his way into Harvard Law using a fake name and fake transcripts. The Crimson tried to interview his “girlfriend,” a student at the B school. It turned out that she was his wife–back in those days, Harvard wouldn’t allow a married couple to both receive financial aid–and she had falsified her app to the B school. </p>
<p>I think it was the Atlantic which ran the story of a guy who pulled a similar scam at Princeton. maybe 15 years ago. He was a track star. He was actually quite a number of years older than he claimed. Somebody who ran against him in high school recognized him at a track meet. He had built this whole persona at Princeton–he was a BMOC. </p>
<p>So, it happens.</p>
<p>What’s amazing to me is that he applied for a Rhodes and Marshall. And, he applied to Yale and Brown using a rec from the Harvard prof who caught him!</p>
<p>If he hadn’t gone for the Rhodes and Marshall, he probably would have gotten away with a Harvard degree.</p>
<p>Man. This kid is like the DiCaprio character in “Catch Me if You Can”. I see Washington in this young man’s future. No, not politics. Crazy Frank Washington over in Cell Block D. ;)</p>
<p>WOW…</p>
<p>What’s sad is that his spot could have been rightfully given to someone else…that actually worked hard for it…</p>
<p>Here’s the story of the Princeton Fraud: James Hogue, a/k/a Alexi Indris-Santana.</p>
<p>[Bright</a> and Athletic, He Seemed Perfect for Princeton, but This Paper Tiger’s Stripes Came from the Jailhouse : People.com](<a href=“http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20114695,00.html]Bright”>http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20114695,00.html)</p>
<p>There was a situation at Rice U several years back where a young adult male lived on campus and ran with the track team as a “walk-on” and told everyone that he attended Rice. I guess he did, although he wasn’t actually enrolled and he got by by mooching off of people in the serveries and sleeping in different people’s rooms. Eventually someone got suspicious since he didn’t seem to attend many classes and he was found out!</p>
<p>Well, universities can revoke degrees, so even if he got away, he would have been caught eventually and stripped of his degree. One a liar, always a liar.</p>
<p>One of the college guides said that the faculty at Princeton complained that the school was filled with bright kids who have learned to work the system. Guess there is at least one of those at Harvard, too.</p>
<p>Ohhh i rememeber</p>
<p>There was a story kinda like this…but this one woman faked that she went to Columbia…she stole someone else’s Identity…but she got caught :P</p>
<p>^ I think I saw that on 20/20 lol…</p>
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<p>Lots of people learn how to work the system. It is simply a fact of life.</p>
<p>I, too have exploited inefficiencies in the system to my benefit, but never would I ever dream of breaking the law to advance myself. Cases like these are pretty isolated…</p>
<p>"
A Harvard University senior is facing 20 criminal charges for allegedly creating afraudulent life history that led to his admission to Harvard, and for using forged academic materials from Harvard when he applied for the prestigious Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships.</p>
<p>Adam B. Wheeler, 23, is currently being held by authorities and is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn. In a statement, District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr. alleged that Wheeler has misled academic officials at Harvard and other academic institutions over the years.</p>
<p>He is charged with four counts of larceny over $250, eight counts of identity fraud, seven counts of falsifying an endorsement or approval and pretending to hold a degree…"</p>
<p>^^^
[Vicky</a> Ward: Esther Reed: How an Ordinary Girl Faked Her Way Into the Ivy League](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>Esther Reed: How an Ordinary Girl Faked Her Way Into the Ivy League | HuffPost Life)</p>
<p>brilliant idea though.</p>
<p>Every once in a while news articles about “professionals” who have faked their credentials and have been practicing their “professional trade” without the formal education or licensing pop up. Some people will make up anything and are able to lie without any remorse. They are referred to as sociopaths and one book I read suggested that one in ten people are sociopaths. They exist in every area of society.</p>
<p>“Leone said a Harvard professor became suspicious about Wheeler’s submission for the scholarships and discovered he had allegedly plagiarized another student’s work. Harvard then discovered he had fabricated his Harvard transcript he made himself a straight A student for the scholarship application.”</p>
<p>This is for the Rhodes scholarship?</p>
<p>So if he had just laid low after getting in, he would have gotten away with it?</p>
<p>God damn! I should have done that.</p>
<p>This guy got too greedy.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there’s probably plenty more, uncaught as of yet. :(</p>
<p>Sounds like a potential or would be Wall Streeter who forgot to follow the money.</p>