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...summers ago, the College rescinded its offer of admission to Blair Hornstine, an admit to the Class of 2007 who was reported to have plagiarized several articles written for her local newspaper in New Jersey. Admissions officials declined to comment on Hornstine??€™s case at the time but acknowledge that plagiarism could qualify as grounds for withdrawing an acceptance...
...Hornstine??€™s actions, far from childish, allowed her to flourish in the Darwinistic struggle for status that begins in high school. And for anyone who has ever been prey in that struggle, for anyone who has ever been upstaged by a pretentious over-achiever, her dramatic fall was deliciously poetic. But as long as accomplishment substitutes for character, perfection for candor, elite Universities will continue to encourage Blair Hornstines and promote the Blair Hornstine in each student...
Wulfsberg had previously told The Crimson that meeting Hornstine??€™s request of $2.7 million would have stretched the school board’s resources thin...
...issue at the center of Hornstine??€™s lawsuit was her high school’s decision to force her to share the title of valedictorian with a fellow student—Kenneth S. Mirkin ’07. Classified as disabled, Hornstine took most of her high school classes from private tutors outside of school. School officials argued that Hornstine??€™s A-plus grades were won from a skewed playing field...
...suit was nevertheless ridiculed by many in her hometown and at Harvard, where thousands of students signed an online petition to have Hornstine??€™s admission to the College rescinded...