Liars getting into ivy-league/stanford/duke/MIT...

“adcoms aren’t naive.”

They are not naive but sometimes they overlook.

The Adam Wheeler case is a vivid example.

http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/adam-wheeler-went-to-harvard

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/12/16/harvard-wheeler-college-guilty/

And sometimes the colleges don’t know that their admission officers are liars.

MIT is still in pain with the Marilee Jones case.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/us/27mit.html?_r=0