<p>Now I know Stanford supposedly has a good atmosphere and all, but if I was going to pull off a charade like this, I'd go to UCSB or college in Barcelona or Rio de Janeiro or something, a place where hanging out could be really fun.</p>
<p>I'm dumbfounded at what she did.
" -- A young woman from Orange County posed as a Stanford University freshman for months, living in two different dormitories with unsuspecting roommates until staff members discovered her charade this week, campus officials said Thursday. </p>
<p>The 18-year-old kept a low profile and was able to pull off the elaborate deception for almost an entire school year, slipping into her dorm room through an open window, relaxing in the dorm lounge and talking about tests she apparently never would take, students said. </p>
<p>"I had no idea," said freshman Jessica Wacker, 18, who lived in the same dormitory. "Everybody was so surprised. It's so strange that everybody in the dorm could have not know about somebody staying here. She just blended in, so you really couldn't tell." </p>
<p>University officials refused to identify the young woman while police investigate her unauthorized stay, but students identified her as Azia Kim, who graduated from Troy High School in Fullerton last year. </p>
<p>Kim was asked to leave the campus on Monday and could not be reached for comment Thursday. ..."</p>
<p>this is such a weired story... they should have let her stay tho! lol</p>
<p>There's another thread on this story called "Stanford Dorm Squatter" where someone asks if she'll go for a book or movie contract. This would be a smart move, and one would hope she was aiming for something like that. More likely, though, she felt a lot of pressure and went into some very twisted denial/pretense vortex that suggests she should be put on suicide watch or possibly hospitalized.....</p>
<p>thats so awsome, how did she get the room thogh./</p>
<p>This girl just really wanted to go to Stanford.. she wasn't suffering from any "delusions", she was just able to trick the school to let her attend.
If she tricked Stanford for this long.. they should just let her enroll for the next three years.</p>
<p>That's pretty funny! </p>
<p>I remember about ten years ago a guy posed as an employee at a start-up firm in silicon valley. They were hiring so fast they just couldn't keep track. He worked there for about a year, but wasn't actually drawing a paycheck.</p>
<p>Everybody thought that was funny, too.</p>
<p>Stanford: Home to a massive number of valedictorians, is completely ignorant. Irony up the butt on that.</p>
<p>I hope that everyone who says she should be allowed to stay permanently at Stanford is joking. If that happened, there'd be groups of kids sneaking into HPY this coming year, hoping not to get caught for months so that they'll actually be able to enroll.</p>
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This girl just really wanted to go to Stanford.. she wasn't suffering from any "delusions", she was just able to trick the school to let her attend.
If she tricked Stanford for this long.. they should just let her enroll for the next three years.
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^ Second that. I for one am touched by her devotion. She is not crazy, but the whole college admission system is. This incident only reflects the absurdity of today's cutthroat competition.</p>
<p>I figured the pressure to go to Stanford was so great... The article mentioned her parents bringing her to school to move into the dorm. There are 2-3 other threads, and somewhere I read she had actually been accepted in spring of 2006, but never actually matriculated. Doesn't add up.</p>
<p>Wow. I don't know what to think. On one hand, I think she is pyschotic. On the other, I kind of sympathize with her. One of my best friends attends Troy High School, maybe they know her.</p>
<p>Ha, they even have a Facebook group dedicated to her!</p>
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"My teammate is a very nice," Haber said of Kim's first dorm mate. "(Kim) convinced her to keep the window open because she didn't have a key, so she could get in through the window. She's obviously very persuasive. ... Actually, my teammate started doing that too. It's pretty funny."
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<p>LOL!........</p>
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I remember about ten years ago a guy posed as an employee at a start-up firm in silicon valley. They were hiring so fast they just couldn't keep track. He worked there for about a year, but wasn't actually drawing a paycheck.
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<p>It happened at Apple once too, the guy who designed the graphing calculator found on the old macs did it by sneaking into the offices everyday and then eventually sneaking the software into the systems being sold to consumers.</p>
<p>To those who think Stanford should offer her admission: If all it took to be entitled to a place at an elite college were to "really, really want to go there," none of us would be posting on this site. Let's not get carried away here.
<p>This happened at Rice this year, too.</p>
<p>What a pathetic way to use one's precious - and limited - time.</p>
<p>Sadly, this girl is probably suffering from some pretty extreme mental health problems to drive her to such extremes. Now, though, thanks to a certain Stanford Daily reporter's headline-grabbing tactics, she's been branded as an "imposter" and a con artist before the entire Stanford community.</p>
<p>WoW....just wow. :D</p>