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After discovering serious discrepancies in the transfer application of a Morse College junior, Yale rescinded his admission last summer, and police arrested him in September for larceny and forgery.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.
Facing stiffer competition and heavier pressure than ever before, an increasing number of increasingly desperate students are willing to bend the truth to get into their dream schools,...
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 ;) ).
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.