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Just getting into college provides the first example of this issue. Harvard, like other top-ranked schools, has an extremely competitive admissions process with very high standards. But rather than embellishing our grades or our activities in high school, we present our honest histories. We do this because we trust that others are doing the same, but more importantly, because we believe our actual selves are worth accepting. Honesty on our applications is the first indicator that honesty helps us preserve our identities...
...open mind to new ideas and different perspectives and to incorporate these lessons into our knowledge of the world. This may seem entirely obvious, but it is this simple notion that makes Wheeler’s case so jarring; we assume at Harvard that we are all being honest. When working together we naturally believe that our classmates are truthful when they explain an answer to a problem or draw a comparison to something from the syllabus. Of course, honesty is important in almost every field, but it is a particularly salient issue in academia because uncovering falsehoods...
...admire Wheeler. As one put it, "I would say that what Adam Wheeler has done is more than a 'mistake'. This was a deliberate scheme to lie his way into a school. He used scholarship money that he didn't deserve (meaning that money was taken away from honest students who really did deserve it), and I hope that he is prosecuted for his actions to the fullest extent...
...There are so many pieces of paper that come through, that to check every application, every transcript, every letter of recommendation—you can’t possibly do that, and you have to assume that people are honest,” Bardwell said...
Senior roommates compete for the hand of one bachelorette in HUTV’s season finale of the Love@Harvard series in an episode that, to be honest, we don't love all that much...