<p>“Harvard loves “story” kids.”
That’s an interesting point, tk21769.
Perhaps, Harvard’s attitude is best represented by that scene in “The Social Network” when the Winkelvoss twins met with Larry Summers to complain that Zuckerberg violated the Harvard Code of Conduct.</p>
<p>“For a college to discipline a student for off-campus conduct, they must have a rationale that the off-campus incident poses some kind of impact on the campus.”
But if Viswanathan’s admissions application indicated that she had a novel in press, it might be considered a misrepresentation. It’s not known, however, whether she indicated this when she applied. </p>
<p>“Looking at the issue from another angle, why wasn’t she admitted at law schools at Yale or Stanford?”
Do we know that she even applied to Yale or Stanford? Certainly, schools other than Georgetown could have considered the plagiarism in their decisions whether to admit her. </p>
<p>BTW, even though her publisher pulled the book from the shelves, you can still get it at Amazon. [Amazon.com:</a> How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life: Kaavya Viswanathan: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Opal-Mehta-Kissed-Wild-Life/dp/B002HVPMSK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298919767&sr=1-1]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Opal-Mehta-Kissed-Wild-Life/dp/B002HVPMSK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298919767&sr=1-1)</p>