<p>DA:</a> Harvard student faked out university - BostonHerald.com</p>
<p>Ya gotta wonder what motivates people like this guy. Is it as simple as coveting an Ivy degree? Or is it something more sinister like the thrill of not getting caught? Whatever the cause, it’s a shame he was corrupted as a kid in HS. </p>
<p>Regardless, I predict he’ll be acquitted by reason of mental illness…some sort of unverifiable addiction.</p>
<p>What a bizarre story. Even more bizarre are the online comments that are posted. I usually avoid reading online comments because it never fails to prove how many moronic and hateful people there are out there.</p>
<p>Alwaysamom–I know,right? Those comments were scary.</p>
<p>I <em>never</em> read the comments on a news story. There are just too many crazy people out there.</p>
<p>The fake student is just the latest in a many-years-long string of them. The girl at Stanford who stayed for a year despite never being admitted, high school “students” who enroll at inner city schools as “emancipated minors” who are found to be 25 years old… Nothing new here except the quality and depth of the deception.</p>
<p>Here’s a link to a Harvard Crimson article from a year ago which lists this guy among awardees of a prestigious academic award:
[Recipients</a> of Hoopes Prizes Announced | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/5/18/recipients-of-hoopes-prizes-announced-the/]Recipients”>Recipients of Hoopes Prizes Announced | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>"The prize—funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes ’19 and administered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Prize Office—comes with a rigorous application process, requiring nomination from a faculty member and review by a prize committee. "</p>
<p>[Del</a>. man charged with faking his way into Harvard - U.S. news- msnbc.com](<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37195963/ns/us_news/?ocid=MSNToolbar130]Del”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37195963/ns/us_news/?ocid=MSNToolbar130)</p>
<p>Why did it take so long to get caught? WIth Identity theft–did he steal transcripts?</p>
<p>The people at Harvard beat you to it:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/930157-harvard-senior-charged-fabricating-life-history-stealing-grant-money.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/930157-harvard-senior-charged-fabricating-life-history-stealing-grant-money.html</a></p>
<p>What I want to know–is how does a kid pull this --and for so long…
the MIT lie, the prep school lie…
Lots of lies.
How did the app get through?
Does this kid have parents?</p>
<p>Isn’t this the second one at Harvard in recent history?</p>
<p>I feel so badly for the student who was cheated out of a spot by this fraud.</p>
<p>O.K., so this fellow is definitely a nut and Harvard got duped. A sensational story like this occurs at an elite school every couple of years, so it’s not novel. And no, I don’t wring my hands and weep for someone who may have lost a seat. Who? Anyone whom is Harvard caliber surely had excellent opportunities elsewhere. Yale, Brown? Oxford?</p>
<p>But really, isn’t it fun to see Harvard get caught like this with it’s admissions officers’ pants down so to speak?</p>
<p>We had a kid who lied his way in and then got caught out when he did no work and flunked. If I remember correctly, he was a little older, in his 20’s, and said he’d started a company somewhere in S. America, like Brazil. He had some gifts shipped up for his roommates but they were “broken in transit” and turned out he’d had broken stuff shipped up as a cover. It happens. Harder these days with federal tax returns and the like required for federal aid.</p>
<p>We had a law prof who lied his way in…made up books he had authored, etc. I think it’s a lot harder to do that kind of thing with the internet.</p>
<p>I still don’t understand why H didn’t expel the girl who plagiarized a novel. But I believe she went on to Columbia Law, so obviously they didn’t mind her plagiarism either. Meanwhile Dartmouth famously (or infamously) “Parkhursted” a senior in his last term who forgot to attach his list of citations to a paper, even though it was clearly accidental.</p>
<p>Harvard can be rather imperious and self important. Remember years ago they revoked the admission of a young woman who had a conviction on her record (accidental death, I recall). The woman faced justice, served her sentence [a rather light one, obviously] and did not lie on her college application in any way. I think she ended up at another Ivy.</p>
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That sounds like “Andreas Alrea” at Yale. As I recall, he only flunked out because he signed up for Directed Studies and didn’t go to class.</p>
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<p>How does that equate to “imperious and self important?” All colleges have processes by which they review applicants or students with serious criminal records.</p>
<p>According to what I’ve read, the woman bludgeoned her mother to death, and did not reveal her record on her college application. I don’t see imperiousness with a college having a problem with that. Students have certainly been denied admission for lesser issues from many schools.</p>