<p>[Adam</a> Wheeler: Lying Harvard Student’s Resume Claims Multiple Manuscripts Written, Awards Won](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>Adam Wheeler: Lying Harvard Student's Resume Claims Multiple Manuscripts Written, Awards Won | HuffPost College)</p>
<p>[Adam</a> Wheeler: Former Harvard Student Indicted For Larceny and ID Fraud](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>Adam Wheeler: Former Harvard Student Indicted For Larceny and ID Fraud | HuffPost College)</p>
<p>This guy, Adam Wheeler, forged his entire academic credentials to get into Harvard and nearly got away with it. He claimed he had perfect SAT scores and lied to Harvard that he was a MIT student with 4.0 GPA trying to transfer to Harvard. In fact, he was a Bowdoin student with SAT in 1200s. The only reason he was caught for scamming was because when he was applying for Rhodes, one professor caught that he submitted the work product of one of Harvard professors, claiming it as his own work, in order to secure Rhodes Scholarship. Then, his dark secrets all came out.</p>
<p>This story just reveals light into how easy it is to game admissions and it clearly seems that Harvard admissions doesn’t do crap when it comes to verifying the accuracy or validity of an applicant’s credentials. If it was this easy to forge one’s entire academic credentials with fake SAT scores and what not, imagine how easy it is for someone to fake leadership activities, extra curricular activities, or a bunch of other crap.</p>
<p>Also, I suspect that there are far more people than this guy at Harvard and many other top schools who scammed their credentials to get into top schools but didn’t get caught. Imagine, again, whether Harvard can really objectively, critically, and thoroughly evaluate an applicant’s leadership qualities or other non-academic dimensions.</p>
<p>While SAT and high school GPA may not be all that matter to Harvard, at least these criteria are the only reasonably objective and verifiable data to evaluate candidates on.</p>