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...case of a fire alarm take only your exam copy and exam booklets. Proceed to the closest exit and assemble at [designated meeting location]. Stay together but do not discuss the exam. Keep your exam booklets closed...
...Wheeler’s case, she said, “I think his reward is probably self esteem... ‘Here I am, a Harvard student.’ He has to know somewhere in his mind he didn’t do what other people did to get into Harvard...
Saarni said that Wheeler’s story sounds like “a major case of self-aggrandizement... A person who is a pathological liar lies to protect their self interest...to look bigger than one actually feels...
Many have reacted with shock to the case of Adam B. Wheeler, but lying students being caught while trying to gain entrance to elite universities is nothing new. Here's a recap of similar events in the recent past...
...Gina Grant, an all-star student at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, was accepted to join the Harvard Class of 1999. On her application, however, she failed to mention that she had bludgeoned her abusive, alcoholic mother to death with a crystal candlestick at age 14. Though the case was sealed, letters began to flow to the Boston Globe after she was featured in an article about successful, under-resourced students. The College rescinded her offer of admission...