<p>The Yale student who forged a Columbia transcript is all over the news.</p>
<p>I’ve seen the Columbia transcript before and it seems like it’s easy to forge compared to the transcripts at some of the other universities. There’s no signed and sealed envelope, there’s no signature, no raised seal. There is just a heat sensitive seal. How difficult is it to reproduce one of those? Maybe Columbia should add additional security measures.</p>
<p>Maybe you should stop being so curious.</p>
<p>And besides, most transcripts will have an authenticity sign on it. Either a transparent signature imprint in the middle or like my NYU Pre-college transcript which has a little circular hologram with printed keys inside. So no, transcripts cannot be forged.</p>
<p>All he did was steal some official columbia letterhead and do some photoshop work. I had access to that same stuff when I worked in the housing office.</p>
<p>What I find weird is why he chose to transfer, from NYU to Columbia to Yale. He was going to fine schools in all cases, although St. John’s, where he apparently started, is probably a step down. But why risk expulsion producing all that forged paper trail? If you’ve got the stuff to get admitted, and get decent grades, why not just grind it out and graduate?</p>
<p>If he transferred from West Bumf**k Comm Col to Yale on the basis of a forged transcript, I suppose that would at least make sense. This dude doesn’t make sense.</p>
<p>I actually take what I said back</p>
<p>[Ex-Student</a> Duped Yale – Courant.com](<a href=“http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-yalefraud0409.artapr09,0,6356024.story]Ex-Student”>http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-yalefraud0409.artapr09,0,6356024.story)</p>
<p>I think he just wanted to have the glory of telling people I was able to get into X amount of prestigious.</p>
<p>This kind of reminds me of the girl who faked being a Stanford student & eventually got caught. Really sad & pathetic</p>
<p>I thought the Columbia transcripts have a heat sensitive seal. How can you forge one of those?</p>
<p>from what I understand, he didn’t. He got a hold of actual official university letterhead.</p>
<p>It probably wouldn’t be too hard to forge the CU transcript. I’ve had transcripts printed in front of my eyes at the Registrar, and if I recall correctly they just put the special transcript paper through a laser printer that just puts text on the paper. If you were able to get access of that paper, it probably wouldn’t be too hard to replicate the Courier-like font that’s used on the transcript.</p>
<p>Those things always boggle the mind. If you studied an hour of the time spent on planning the perfect forgery, chances are you’d get the grade.</p>
<p>I’m sure its possible…it’s just stupid beyond reason. The guy was at the school for a year before getting caught. Imagine getting in and living every day in fear that someone might come into the dorm to arrest and kick you out. Rubbish. Who needs that sort of stress?</p>
<p>I didn’t even think they kept/checked the transcripts after admission.</p>
<p>He’s only one student who got caught and this is only because he did something illegal that raised a red flag. I’m sure there are a lot more dishonest students out there. It’s just that nobody has enough time to pay careful attention.</p>