<p>I intern in my school’s guidance office and I see the applications before they go out, which is how I found out about the whole thing. I thought it was a bit suspicious that a particular teacher wrote her a letter when he hadn’t ever had her in class until a few months before the applications went out (we’ve had the same classes all four years.) I still don’t understand why he would lie for her, period, but who knows?
[as well as her real SAT scores–I looked up her file after I saw the letter and noticed the lie. She told everyone in our class that she got a 650 in math on her SAT, when she really got a 450…so long ivys (and anywhere but a state school.)]</p>