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Though Bardwell said that he thinks the fear of being caught and thus risking placement on the blacklist at colleges would deter most would-be application fakers, he suspects that still some others are willing to lie on their college applications.
In his transfer application to Harvard, Wheeler submitted transcripts reflecting perfect grades in his freshman year at MIT and attendance at the prestigious Phillips Academy in Andover.
Wheeler—who actually spent two years at Bowdoin College before transferring to Harvard in 2007—never attended MIT or Phillips in Andover. MIT does not even award letter grades to first-years.
By creating an alternate life for himself—complete with letters of recommendation that professors never wrote, SAT scores that he never earned, and schools he never attended—Wheeler bought himself two years at Harvard and tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships, grants, and financial aid...
—Staff writer Xi Yu can be reached at xyu@college.harvard.edu.