<p>I read the Time magazine article to which you linked. As you mentioned, it is a bit dated, but still makes some relevant points.</p>
<p>Anyway, on page 4 of the article, a reference to Kaavya Viswanathan caught my attention: “College students this spring watched the flameout of Kaavya Viswanathan, the prepackaged Harvard prodigy who published a best seller at 19 and had been exposed as a plagiarist by 20.”</p>
<p>I remembered reading about her at the time her plagiarism was in the news, but never really heard anything more about what happened to her. So, I searched for some updated information. Apparently, “Harvard never formally reprimanded Viswanathan; on the contrary, famed novelist Jamaica Kincaid oversaw her senior thesis. Viswanathan was soon accepted to Georgetown Law School and is currently interning at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, one of the most blindingly white of all white-shoe law firms.” This information is current as of May 2010. [Making</a> (Up) the Grade: Top All-Time Harvard Grifters](<a href=“AOL - News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com”>AOL - News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com)</p>
<p>Another article about her stated: "So Kaavya wasnt just another student applying to Harvard. She was an elaborately packaged pitch. [How</a> Kaavya Viswanathan Got Herself Packaged | Dallas Public Relations Idea Grove](<a href=“http://www.ideagrove.com/blog/2006/05/how-kaavya-viswanathan-got-herself-packaged.html]How”>http://www.ideagrove.com/blog/2006/05/how-kaavya-viswanathan-got-herself-packaged.html)</p>
<p>First, one would think that her dishonesty would matter a great deal to Harvard, but apparently it didn’t. If it didn’t affect her standing at Harvard, one would think that it just might concern Georgetown, which admitted her to its law school. Second, one would think the folks at the Harvard admissions office would be astute enough to see through such an “elaborately packaged” applicant, but apparently they’re not. Though she had the ability to make it through Harvard and Georgetown Law, one wonders what equally able, but more honest and less packaged, applicant was turned down by Harvard in order to offer a place to Viswanathan.</p>