Harvard senior charged with fabricating life history, stealing grant money

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<p>Do you remember this one at Stanford from three years ago?:</p>

<p>"Stanford University officials evicted an 18-year old student this week after discovering she was not enrolled at the school—despite living in several dorms, buying textbooks, and appearing to study for exams, the Stanford Daily reports. Azia Kim masqueraded as a sophomore majoring in human biology for eight months before a suspicious RA alerted the housing office.</p>

<p>“Kim convinced her roommates she was temporarily out of housing due to a technical mixup, and snuck into dorms and meals without an ID, all—her would-be classmates speculate—because of an overwrought need to get in, not to disappoint her parents.”</p>

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<p>^Hah!</p>

<p>I’ve sneaked into the dining hall a few times where I go, but I don’t know how I’d go about sleeping in someone else’s bed.</p>

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<p>I guess we’ve identified one of the kids who always posts on this website asking a question along the lines of, “Do colleges do background checks?” “Will they really know if you made up your ECs or something?” “I’m not going to do it, honest, just curious!!”</p>

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<p>Wasn’t there an Asian girl who, despite having been rejected from Yale, showed up for classes there and managed to attend Yale for a whole year?</p>

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<p>I guess this proves the admissions process works.
:P</p>

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<p>Did she show up on the enrollment records?</p>

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<p>Wowww, all of these falsified stories makes me wonder… if there are this many people getting caught, how many people are there who are NOT getting caught? 0.o</p>

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<p>don’t admissions offices verify when a student transfers from another college, in this case MIT? and how did he report a false perfect SAT? again, isn’t that from Collegeboard?</p>

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<p>This is like the Salahi’s in DC, who crashed a state dinner at the White House. Finally…busted! But probably still on some BS reality TV show. Slime attracts slime.</p>

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<p>You have to admit he is pretty smart to have been able to done all this. But then he got caught LOL</p>

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<p>I remember from ages ago, a story of a student who had killed her mother, but was accepted to Harvard. They found out just in time and rescinded the acceptance. Now, there’s a roommate you don’t want!!!</p>

<p>[Harvard</a> Is Now Asking If a Would-Be Student Who Killed Her Mother Then Lied About It - NYTimes.com](<a href=“Harvard Is Now Asking If a Would-Be Student Who Killed Her Mother Then Lied About It - The New York Times”>Harvard Is Now Asking If a Would-Be Student Who Killed Her Mother Then Lied About It - The New York Times)</p>

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<p>:eek: and extremely creepy :/</p>

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<p>Wowsa, that’s a shame. He’s not a bad-looking guy (in fact, he’s kinda cute :p) but what can I say? I don’t do criminals.
If only he could have used that intelligence to go for something legitimate. Maybe he couldn’t have gone to Harvard perse, but he could have done something to contribute positively to society as opposed to * this *…</p>

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<p>Now that’s what you call “Stealing Harvard”</p>

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<p>Dude, that guy, holy crap… Since he has the smarts to go elusive like that for so long and for so many times… He has the potential to become a freakin’ top CIA agent for freakin’ sake! Are you kidding?</p>

<p>What a waste of talent.</p>

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<p>the scary or rather, the strange thing is that this guy probably would not have been caught if he just chilled after getting into harvard grad…
but this is really really weird and dumb, how the heck did he manage to fake SAT scores, AND and MIT transcript, for gods sakes, this is ridiculous and I dont understand why anyone would risk doing THIS MUCH. hes basically gonna spend much of his life in jail now, lol</p>

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<p>Wow, I feel bad for those who rightfully did their work but got rejected. And yes, how on earth did he fake SAT scores and the MIT transcript?</p>

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<p>"A professor reviewing his application noticed similarities between Wheeler’s writing and that of a colleague, prosecutors said. "</p>

<p>I wonder what this means. Did the student copy someone elses app or style; or did he receive help ?</p>

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<p>Hey -
Everybody lies. He’s just Ivy league at it!</p>

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<p>I’m actually quite impressed. I applaud him for his boldness. It’s sad that there are people out there that want an education, and schools like Harvard deny them that chance; I’m glad that he took his future into his own hands. I also think they’re going overboard with the indictments, No one died! No one was injured! Just have him pay a fine and maybe probation.</p>