Stanford Dorm Squatter (Stanford Daily Article)

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<p>Amazing story, </p>

<p><a href="http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/5/24/imposterCaught%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/5/24/imposterCaught&lt;/a> </p>

<p>with amazing comments from students and parents.</p>

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<p>haha wow... thats crazy</p>

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<p>That's pretty....unique...</p>

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<p>Actually it does not seem too unique as cases occurring at Harvard and MIT are mentioned.</p>

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<p>wow, that's crazy. she doesn't even go to stanford and she might have to pay $42,000..</p>

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<p>adorkable</p>

<p>Love your name! I was a dork as a kid and we didn't even have a word for it back then! I'm still a dork I guess....</p>

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Actually it does not seem too unique as cases occurring at Harvard and MIT are mentioned.

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<p>well it's certainly one way of getting into your first choice.</p>

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<p>Well, there's the odd story for the week. Do you suppose she will be on Oprah next?</p>

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<p>I think she might write a book, get money for a screen play and then a movie made out of it. (;-)</p>

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<p>She could write a book on "How I Got into Stanford". Or "How to get into An elite college on a free ride"</p>

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<p>Oops...cross posted with TooRich!</p>

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<p>I wonder how this will all turn out.</p>

<p>I'm pretty amazed at all of the people who didn't catch what she had done. Not just her "roommates", but the people from high school, her parents, and family members.</p>

<p>I hope Stanford does succeed at taking action against her. I had heard of something similiar happening at Harvard (not the story linked to by commentors) with admission granted. But I hope that was just a urban legend, reading this story.</p>

<p>A lot of people who commented feel that Azia doesn't deserve to be punished. If she is not punished, that will just encourage copy-cat crimes.</p>

<p>It's a major security risk for Stanford that most "safe" college campuses share: the liability of being exploited by anyone who puts half of an effort to do so.</p>

<p>I hope colleges elsewhere use this story next year to encourage students to be more security conscious.</p>

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<p>Looks like RAs will have to undergo some more RA training...</p>

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<p>How I Got Into Stanford; [A]. Find an open window on the first floor. **. Climb through open window.</p>

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<p>"Yearbook forced Kim's exposure" update article in the Stanford Daily includes comments by Denise Clark Pope.</p>

<p><a href="http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/5/25/yearbookForcedKimsExposure%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/5/25/yearbookForcedKimsExposure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Student quoted:

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“The parents were completely in the dark,” said the Okada resident who attended last night’s meeting. “Where did they think their $50,000 a year was going?”'

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<p>great question. Also here is a tip or tip-off for parents new to all of this- if you and your kid don't get inundated with mail from the college you think your child is attending think twice and then again- especially if you don't get anything from the alumni office in question asking for donations. This also holds for kids on financial aid and, of course, don't forget all those letters asking you to sign up for college linen services.</p>

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<p>Isn't this the truth!</p>

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<p>Am I the only person who finds this event a really sad indication of the degree of pressure on college students (sometimes from peers, sometimes from parents, sometimes both) to attend "prestigious" universities -- particularly privates?</p>

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<p>It is amazing she was even able to pull this off. </p>

<p>But it is hard to fathom just the tuition payment piece. Presumably, her parents had to write a check for even part of the cost? Didn't they have to view a bill and then mail it somewhere? Even if their D took care of it, wouldn't they see something on their bank statement? I suppose the entire responsibility for payments was their D's? And wouldn't the parents expect to be receiving various mail at the home from Stanford? </p>

<p>I was wondering about the ID but now the article says she secured an ID, though the previous article said she had no ID. I am wondering how she got into meals and such. </p>

<p>She used a window to access her dorm room. You would think others would see her doing that? Well, she obviously couldn't do that at my D's school, NYU. The dorms are high rises buildings, not ones you can get into by window and also you must go through security officers with IDs that indicate you are a resident of THAT building just to get in.</p>

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<p>epiphany, </p>

<p>I totally agree that this unusual situation must be related to pressures this girl was under to go to an elite school. However, I am not sure what she thought she might do in four years when she couldn't produce a degree for her parents or attend the graduation and so forth. I mean it was gutsy how far she got with this and hard to believe she got this far for so long but did she really think she could pull of getting a degree or a graduation? I suppose she thought she'd lie on a resume that she had a degree from Stanford, ala Ms. Jones. I guess her parents never asked to see a grade report or anything else from the school.</p>

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<p>soozievt,</p>

<p>At Stanford students, not parents get billed for tuition and fees. Parents have no way to see the statement, unless the students show it to them. So she could just have been asking for the money to be transferred to her bank account, so she could "pay the tuition".</p>