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<p>AKA “If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.”</p>
<p>I know someone that lied on her application to get the spanish UA Alumni scholarship program and was award money for four years. She tells everyone know thinking I guess she got away with it. Her name is She put on her facebook that she is Chinese and Italian no mention of spanish at all. to hear her tell the story though she said she told them that her father (Mexican) abandon her and her mother after she was born. She grew up in Tucson, AZ and speak spanish very well so I guess that is how she accomplished such a task.</p>
<p>They should force her to do a DNA test to prove she isn’t spanish at all and make her pay the money back.</p>
<p>This thread is a year and a half old!</p>
<p>I realize it’s a resurrected, old thread, but I found the story shocking, particularly that Adam Wheeler got as far as he did. His original Harvard transfer app is full of red flags such as:</p>
<p>-- Taking 16 AP exams, including two before starting HS and earning 5s on all
– App and transcript list different dates of MIT attendance
– A’s in 10 MIT philosophy/lit classes during years while a student in HS (likely relates to the mismatched dates above)
– Names of MIT professors used for LORs were on faculty at Bowdoin
– Interview conducted at Bowdoin, not MIT (claimed to not be a student at MIT, not Bowdoin)
– Fake email/phone of adviser
– And of course did not attending the HS or college claimed on his app</p>
<p>It sounds like he would have graduated and gotten away with it, had he not applied for the Rhodes scholarship.</p>
<p>I agree with the posters above that the parents have just taught their child that it is okay to lie and steal. :(</p>