Harvard missed signs it was being hoodwinked

Source: Boston Globe Posted By: Zarah Owens..5108 days ago

It turns out that fooling the gatekeepers of the nation’s most selective university wasn’t as hard as it looks.

Adam Butler Wheeler, portrayed upon his arrest for fraud as a con artist whose brilliant forgeries landed him a coveted spot at Harvard, won over the admissions committee with an application rife with inconsistencies and an inscrutable personal essay, despite fake faculty recommendations that repeatedly praised his lucid writing.

A close examination of Wheeler’s application materials,....

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