Case suggests vulnerability
For some applicants, a Yale education is worth lying for.
After discovering serious discrepancies in the transfer application of a Morse College junior, Yale rescinded his admission last summer, and police arrested him in September for larceny and forgery. In a season of single-digit acceptance rates, the case is a jolting signal of the vulnerability of the Ivy League to admissions fraud.
#2
By (Anonymous)
4:27pm on April 9, 2008
No. 1 is right. And even when you are qualified, the experience can be difficult enough -- a C student from a California community college must not have had a pleasant experience just to trying to keep up (and a poor student from Columbia -- well that's probably almost as good as a Calif. community college ;) ).
#3
By Rina (Unregistered User)
3:17pm on April 13, 2008
All that to go to Yale? The guy sounds sick in the head.
Whether or not the admissions office in an undergraduate institution "catches" the misrepresentations in an application or not, should these students go on to graduate and professional school, it's very likely their lies will catch up with them and may jeopardize their licensure-- medical or legal -- then they can ask themselves whether the lying was worth it.