Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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Blogs drive, set apart forgery fallout

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, April 11, 2008

Just a week after Yale’s record-low admissions rate grabbed headlines, the University is once again in the national spotlight. This time, though, it was not for the 20,921 applicants it rejected, but for a single allegedly fraudulent applicant it accepted.

The story of Akash Maharaj, the Morse College junior arrested last September for forging his application to Yale, has rippled across the national media since it emerged earlier this week, appearing in dozens of outlets, including the New Haven Register, the Hartford Courant, The New York Times and local news TV stations as far...

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