Yale no stranger to application fraud
A transfer student, who allegedly forged his Yale application, is dismissed from the University, bypassing typical disciplinary proceedings. Then, he is arrested on charges of larceny and forgery.
It may sound like September 2007. But it could just as easily describe April 1995.
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By dfsd (Unregistered User)
8:52pm on April 17, 2008
I got in by claiming that I wouldn't smoke myself retarded. Even got a 5,000 dollar Teetotaling Scholarship. Now I live in a shack and am addicted to meth.
But seriously, most of the student body has probably bent the truth once or twice in their lives. In fact, moral flexibility might possibly be essential to the Ivy League personality. It might even be expected by the powers that be. That's why both sides of the political spectrum are full of selfish cretins with Ivy League educations.
If someone is able to get in with a completely made-up persona, what about students who are borderline candidates, but who lie about a few things to get an edge (e.g., some guy with a perfect SAT but no extracurriculars who makes up a newspaper EIC, student council president?) It seems that this kind of fraud should be a larger concern than students turning in fake transcripts, etc.