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Red flags quickly appeared. Wheeler’s forms stated that he had graduated as valedictorian in 2007—clearly false, Fitzgerald said, since Wheeler did not rank first in his class and had graduated in the year 2005.
Wheeler’s application also listed Advanced Placement courses that had not been offered at Caesar Rodney during Wheeler’s time at the school and showcased perfect SAT scores. According to prosecutors, Wheeler took the SAT twice, achieving scores of 1160 and 1220.
“There was a series of e-mails that went back and forth that basically said, ‘No, these are not correct,’ and from that point, it became more complicated,” said Fitzgerald, who added that Caesar Rodney’s...
Fitzgerald said he believes that the Yale admissions office did not contact Caesar Rodney in April out of suspicion regarding the authenticity of Wheeler’s application, but to conduct a standard vetting procedure of applicants. But with the emergence of the various warning signs, the Yale admissions office...
“That was our first reaction, that the Adam Wheeler that we’re seeing on this application does not fit the Adam Wheeler that we knew when he was in high school,” Fitzgerald said. It was only after the application had gone through...