Stanford -- one way to handle rejection

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<p>The people inside the rooms would leave the window open for her to crawl into.</p>

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<p>hahahaha I couldn't stop laughin when I read this, talk about indenial!!</p>

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<p>She also fooled the ROTC:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/05/30/national/a144926D74.DTL&hw=azia+kim&sn=002&sc=878%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/05/30/national/a144926D74.DTL&hw=azia+kim&sn=002&sc=878&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>From the link Bedhead posted. Really makes one feel comfortable about national security.</p>

<p>"A young woman accused of posing as a Stanford University student for eight months also fooled Santa Clara University's Army ROTC, which provided her with equipment and included her in classes, a newspaper reported.</p>

<p>Stanford officials say Azia Kim, 18, of Fullerton, attended classes and lived on campus, talking her way into several dormitories until the ruse was discovered last week.</p>

<p>Kim used that guise to misrepresent herself to an ROTC adviser, military officials said. Since Stanford doesn't offer an ROTC program, she enrolled in cadet classes at nearby Santa Clara, the Stanford Daily first reported Tuesday.</p>

<p>Kim sat in on classes on military history and military equipment, said Robert Rosenburgh, spokesman for ROTC's Western Region Cadet Command.</p>

<p>Stanford ROTC adviser Diana Clough said Kim, following ROTC requirements, regularly sent her information about her grades, falsely reporting that she received A's in English and humanities classes, an A- in economics and a B in chemistry."</p>

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<p>Talk about a tangled web. She has to be mentally ill at some level.....Did her parents think she was on an ROTC scholarship?</p>

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<p>^^
Probably they did believe she was an ROTC scholarship. Also, for people doubting Troy's achievement take a look at how many NMF were at this school <a href="http://www.troyhigh.com/guidance/docs/senior-awards-2006.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.troyhigh.com/guidance/docs/senior-awards-2006.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>When a good portion of your grade is NMF and close to half commended (I don't see her name anywhere), you can develop such mental ailments quite easily. Though it isn't a "Troy thing" per se...it seems to me all these pressure cooker hs are like this.</p>

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<p>I actually don't find that terribly impressive for a magnet school, considering my normal public high school produced 17 National Merit Finalists this past year.</p>

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<p>I feel very sorry for her. Some dreams are just too big to have smashed - I just hope she settles down over the summer, and puts in some constructive applications and gets started somewhere to start building a new dream.</p>

<p>Not impressed by this press hounding - its amazing yes, but it must be making it much worse for them.</p>

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<p>So whatever happened to her?</p>

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<p>Link to June 1st Stanford Daily Article
<a href="http://www.stanforddaily.com/article/2007/6/1/chargesNotLikelyForAzia%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stanforddaily.com/article/2007/6/1/chargesNotLikelyForAzia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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Despite national coverage of her eight-month masquerade as a Stanford student. Neither law enforcement agencies nor the University is planning to take action against Kim, rendering restitution penalties or criminal charges for the 18-year-old Long Beach native unlikely.

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<p>This article does not mention what she's doing now.</p>