<p>LMAO!!! ! ! ! !</p>
<p>.. wow. i copy+pasted that 68 days til summer break comment into google, but her xanga didn't show up .. darn, she must've deleted it.</p>
<p>Wait- was she attending classes, or not? Granted they don't have 600-person Intro to Bio classes (University of Florida-style) at Stanford, but how hard would it be to just show up for some frosh into classes?</p>
<p>Look, here is probably what happened.</p>
<p>Pressure came from her parents. From her friends. She either did not want to go to Stanford in the first place, or she did and was rejected. Either way, she probably couldn't deal with the reality of facing those around her to the extent that she told everyone she got in, including her parents. The fact that EVERYONE thought she was going to Stanford makes me think it was a personal pressure issue. NOT going to Stanford simply wasn't a feasible option to her given whatever what going on at the time. So she attended and had to play the charade as long as possible until she figured something else out.</p>
<p>Surely she knew she was not going to get a degree by doing this. I feel sorry for her, on one hand, but on the other, it is a huge breach in security that really needs to be addressed. Whether or not she "deserves" to be an actual Stanford student isn't really arguable. It really is a large betrayal of trust, and students shouldn't be admitted based on how well they can fool their school of choice. </p>
<p>If you want to be rewarded for your deception and persuasive manipulation, join Microsoft (I kid, I kid).</p>
<p>I second legendofmax. I sympathize with her for having to do this for a whole year (surely living a "fake" life isn't something desired), but at the same time, I think the school did the right thing by telling her to leave. If they kept her, they'd seriously be inviting trouble.</p>
<p>And this is why you shouldn't lie, kids. ;)</p>
<p>So where was the tution her parents paid? In the article, it mentioned something about her parents being completely shocked...</p>
<p>I agree with a comment I saw on the original article. One comment had said that she exhibited ingenuity and initiative (more so than admitted students), so she would be allowed to stay. I agree with the poster who responded to that statement by saying that burglars also could be said to exhibit the same "qualities" of ingenuity and initiative, but that does not mean that they have the right to your stuff. </p>
<p>This is an extremely sad story, but she is no hero. She obviously is not equipped with any coping skills. She needs to receive some psychiatric help to get her life back on track. </p>
<p>I don't think that this necessarily reflects on the competitiveness of colleges. These kinds of obsessive, denial-based behaviors have been around forever, in the form of the man who gets fired, but still gets up and gets ready for work, or the woman who pretends that she is not pregnant for 9 months, and then puts the baby into a trash can. </p>
<p>I don't feel the need to place the blame on anyone. Stanford needs to tighten up security measures and procedures for their housing department, and the student needs to get help. I wish the best of luck to her in the future.</p>
<p>Her Facebook was deleted, apparently. Her picture is still up when you do a search for her, but the link to get to get page has been removed. I can't imagine all this - she must be mortified. I'm still in shock this actually happened. Why wasn't anyone suspicious when she was climbing through windows?!</p>
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I think Azia lied to her parents that she got a full scholarship and so they don't need to pay her tuition.</p>
<p>Well....people started copying her.</p>
<p>Can't someone like that just live in the school libraries (which are open 24/7?) - I'm not sure of Stanford's, but I know that the libraries of two other universities are open 24/7. some schools do ID checks - but the person can hide in the bathroom during those checks</p>
<p>The weekends, though, are more of a problem. As are storage areas.</p>
<p>She took advantage of strangers, too... But what if she had a best friend going to Stanford? (that could easily cause her to go uncaught longer)</p>
<p>Was she attending classes or not? I can't see how she could have without getting caught.</p>
<p>Remember the murder of the young woman in Utah? Her husband was carrying on a charade about having graduated college and being accepted to medical school. It was thought that her discovery of the truth (he didn't graduate and had been faking going to classes for several years) is what provoked him to kill her.</p>
<p>So, these things really shouldn't be brushed off. Also, some of the arguments I've read here seem very similar to those in the illegal immigration debate.</p>
<p>Are you kidding??? She's obviously unstable and dangerous, she needs to go see a shrink. Who would be that dependent on going to Stanford that they would waste their life hiding on campus. What a wierdo.</p>
<p>Whoa...she went to my school, Troy. ANd I recognize her O__O Dang. Everyone at our school was discussing it today, especially the teachers.</p>
<p>It all makes sense now. She was not rejected in the first place. </p>
<p>What really happened was that she lied on her application to Stanford, and Stanford revoked her application when it found out. She did not have the heart to reveal what happened to anyone, including her parents. This is the only way to explain why her "friends" report that her admittance was somewhat surprising considering her grades in high school, how her parents could have believed that she got accepted, and why she felt the pressure to act as a student. Furthermore, this also explains why she needed to be in residence all this time, instead of sleeping in the library. This transcends far beyond the humiliation behind a rejection people, it is about a person's integrity and reputation.</p>
<p>Is this your knowledge or your theory of what happened?</p>
<p>Ok, after posting I read through this thread and I was completely disgusted.</p>
<p>I attend Troy. I've seen this girl around and was in a club with her. Lots of people knew her. To blatantly call someone mentally unfit is just rash and rude--even disrespectful. I can't believe the responses in this thread. One of my teachers, Ms. Lambert, even talked with her parents and said she was accepted into several other good schools but she did this because she was really pressured into stanford. </p>
<p>At Troy high, we have literally DOZENS of kids go to Ivy leagues and other top notch schools. We had 96 people accepted into UCLA this year (though a big chunk declined to attend other, more prestigious schools). We're ranked #1 in the world in science olympiad 2 years straight, #1 in AP courses offered, #28 in the nation academically, and 2 years ago we were ranked #1 in the WORLD in computer science.</p>
<p>We're freaks.</p>
<p>Troy kids face this huge pressure from our peers. Siemen award winners, Intel national finalist, and mass awards come from Troy Kids. We turn down RSI and TASP programs because Troy sets up our summers on stuff to do, and many of our kids actually attend college classes since they exceed the maximum course difficulty at Troy. </p>
<p>She isn't as much fault as all of us, wholistically as a school. All of the students were so hit with this, because a lot of us are pretty radical about getting into an Ivy. It's an ugly reminder of what we've become, and it's unfortunate. But don't add insult to injury and start judging her, because she's just a victim of the system here and the pressure forced upon a lot of us.</p>
<p>Stop pointing your fingers; it just may be your child who's being pointed at in the future if admissions continue to get competitive like they are now.</p>
<p>R'Omega: I am really glad you posted, but don't expect people to view her completely as a victim of a system out of balance. Though she herself is clearly out of balance.</p>
<p>When I myself posted speculation that she was mentally unstable, I did actually have a sense of compassion about it, as I am sure others did. But my compassion does not change the fact that the girl needs help and that she was compelled to do some things that will prove very hurtful to her.</p>
<p>What did she think would be the result of what she did? Well, she probably didn't think about it. This is a sign of very disordered thinking.</p>
<p>For her it's too bad that her being caught was so public. Now she's a poster child for some very weird behavior. And I seriously hope her parents bring her into a nice embrace of some sort to help her figure out what was going wrong. Very possibly they hold a great amount of blame.</p>
<p>I am a heck of a lot more concerned about someone like her than I am about the girl at Harvard that pulled off a big plaigarism scam, Kaavya Viswanathan. Kaavya is an intense achiever who will probably turn things to her favor, quite likely, and she was morally not psychologically defective. This girl on the other hand needs help, and I say that with 90% compassion and 10% bemusement.</p>
<p>Regarding you, R'Omega, it seems clear that the stress of your school gets to you, just as it would get to most very sane and smart people who are trying to achieve something good.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>I agree, a mentally sane person would not do this, she has to be ill. Lots of kids come out of pressure cooker HSs, the actual best in the Country are not even ranked by Newsweek, but they don't resort to this.</p>
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<p>She's not? She fits my definition pretty well.</p>