Aleksey Vayner

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>The title of this thread is a prompt in and of itself.</p>

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<p>Hilarious, yet very sad. He needs help, yet if Yale is to maintain any sort of standard of integrity, it needs to give him the boot (and they can probably look back to his admissions file if they need the academic pretext - I doubt he could lie so pathologically elsewhere and have applied in complete honesty).
Best,
DMW</p>

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<p>His rep is spreading throughout the league…</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cornellsun.com/node/18847[/url]”>http://www.cornellsun.com/node/18847&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I am a freshman in his old residential college. The Aleksey Vayner stories are too numerous to count. Someone told me that he once claimed to be one of four people in the state of Connecticut qualified to handle nuclear waste.</p>

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<p>He claimed to have beaten Serena Williams in tennis, despite his getting cut from the Yale tennis team as a walk-on.</p>

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<p>I’d doubt that, but he does seem very fit. That’s more possible than Federer, but still.</p>

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<p>the story here, for the uninitiated:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=33628[/url]”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=33628&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=33715[/url]”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=33715&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Has the Yale administration said anything? I.e.: will they be looking into whether or not he lied/plagiarized on his application or schoolwork at Yale?</p>

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<p>It’s a little hard to fathom how he could have made it to senior year without someone recognizing that he needed help and intervening. Particularly when it seems to have been obvious to other students as early as pre-frosh that he had a problem. If he had a physical illness, I have no doubt it would have been addressed, but somehow people seem to treat a mental illness like this as a big joke.</p>

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<p>No kidding. So no response from Yale admin?</p>

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<p>How do I get the Yale Daily News to show the article? All I get is the title.</p>

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<p>I got the article by printing it.
Cosar is right. This is a mental illness, my guess is Munchausen. I would be really ticked if my child had applied in his year and had been rejected in favor of someone whose tales were already legendary in prefrosh.</p>

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<p>it’s so funny how everyone here takes themselves so seriously. my friend lives down the hall from vayner, and there is no doubt that he is someone who is perfectly mentally sane. his sense of humor and capacity to mock the very sort of people that seem to permeate this site has got him interviews at nearly every single firm he’s applied to.
is this because the firms believe his resume and his video? no, because they are entertained and somewhat intrigued by a person who was able to step back and poke fun at the entire spectacle of over-achievement and success.</p>

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<p>Making fun of overachievement is funny. Pretending to run a charity is not.</p>

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<p>many of the firms don’t realize the magnitude of his transgressions. And by the way, if your friend lives down the hall from Vayner, he should realize (like everyone else in the city of New Haven) that the guy’s a pathological liar and an outright nutjob.</p>

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<p>i’m pretty sure everyone, minus the people posting on this thread, know that there is no way that these claims are true and that vayner is not being serious. sure, maybe the charity thing is a little too much, but its all still hilarious. i’ll make sure to remind my friend though, i’m sure she’ll appreciate the reality check.</p>

<p>either way, i still think it’s hilarious. not something i would do, but hilarious nonetheless.</p>

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<p>Unfortunately, it’s not hilarious, it’s pathological. If, in fact, you have a friend who lives down the hall from this guy, you should encourage her to try to get him some help. </p>

<p>Hope your college search is going well. Have you decided where to apply yet?</p>

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<p>No, his application to UBS is with a doubt a serious and desperate attempt to get a finance job.
<a href=“http://www.ivygateblog.com/images/vayner.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ivygateblog.com/images/vayner.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>He’s a lying self promoter. It’s not at all funny, and he got what he deserved.
(Possibly a bit more though…)</p>

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<p>Oh whatever. It’s not like he’ll actually get the job, it’s just entertaining. Even if he is psychiatrically ill, it’s still pretty funny. Like, who would actually think that people would believe such outlandish claims?</p>

<p>To answer cosar, I’m applying REA to Yale. Should be looking forward to an awesome rejection letter in December, I figured it’ll at least get me into the winter break rejection parties. :)</p>

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<p>You don’t get it - he’s a pathological liar. He was probably succesful earlier in his life because of his ability to decieve others. But now, he’s gotten to the point where he thinks he’s so much smarter than everyone else, to the point where he treats the rest of the world like fools. He sticks by his absurd claims, and he does NOT joke. He really thinks he can fool everyone else. It’s not funny - it’s sad.</p>