Hari_Seldon:
Well, I have a friend who forged a reference letter to get into an Ivy (which I will not name). As he was graduating a member of the admissions committee told him it was one of the most effective letters he had ever seen and was the only thing that got him in (I assume his HS transcript was mediocre at best). But he graduated with honors. When he told the admissions guy that he had written that letter, he described the guy going white, but nothing was ever done about it. What could they do? He had graduated with honors and that was that. He went to Princeton for grad school and finished a PhD in two years (the course requirements were minimal in those days) based largely on a rewrite of his undergrad thesis (which was an extraordinary piece of work to be sure and well worth a PhD). He had a long and successful career and retired just a couple years ago.
It seems to me that no matter how you got in, what you do there is, in the end, the only thing that matters. I don’t understand how you can say he didn’t earn his degree.
This guy stinks. He is a con man’s con man. He is the kind of person who
And I do not know about his undergraduate work, but if his graduate thesis
colonial:
This guy stinks. He is a con man’s con man. He is the kind of person who
And I do not know about his undergraduate work, but if his graduate thesis
Doesn’t make sense.
What the heck is an “undergraduate thesis”?
Some US colleges used to require all seniors to write a thesis;
A thesis has also been a traditional requirement for certain
My undergrad school requires a senior thesis for graduation:
New College of Florida is a public liberal arts college in Sarasota, Florida. It was founded in 1960 as a private institution known simply as New College, spent several years merged into the University of South Florida, and in 2001 became an autonomous college, the eleventh independent school of the State University System of Florida as the honors college for the state system. Upon achieving independence, the school adopted its current name: New College of Florida.
As an honors college, the coll...
If you are going fake your way into college, wouldn’t it be simpler to use a fake transcript to get the job of your choice and cut out the middle man?
hogarth
December 19, 2011, 9:35pm
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A close friend of mine lied about which (Chinese) university she graduated from when she applied for graduate school in Canada. She didn’t think they would try to verify with the original school. Apparently she was wrong and they kicked her out midway through her first semester and she ended up going to a different Canadian university instead.