http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/harvard-stanford-admissions-hoax-becomes-international-scandal/2015/06/18/4abac970-156a-11e5-89f3-61410da94eb1_story.html
The Korean math prodigy at one of the nation’s top high schools had Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on the phone, personally encouraging the teenager to attend Harvard University. She received letters from Harvard professors, encouraging her to bring her brilliant abilities to Cambridge next fall instead of accepting her admission to Stanford University on the opposite coast.
As the student struggled to decide between five-figure scholarship promises from both schools, she received a novel offer: She could spend two years at each elite school as part of an arrangement just for her. The exciting dual-enrollment opportunity garnered star-struck coverage from Korean media outlets, which dubbed her the “Genius Girl.”
But none of it was true.
*There is already a well developed thread on this at http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/1785984-college-admission-hoax-at-tj-thomas-jefferson-high-school.html
Probably more useful to post all opinions in one thread. Also this title is misleading. It makes it sound like Harvard and Stanford did something wrong when of course they had nothing to do with any of this.*