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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.
“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.
Robert Bardwell, secondary level vice president of the American School Counselor Association, did not place the blame on the admissions office, stating that the sheer volume of applications is too large to permit a flawlessly thorough screening.
Click on this link for The Crimson's annotated version of a resume drafted by former Harvard student Adam B. Wheeler to see the various discrepancies and lies that shed light on the recent charges that Wheeler submitted fraudulent applications to different institutions.
On Tuesday afternoon, news magazine The New Republic posted on its blog a copy of a resume that it had received from Wheeler, who had applied for an internship earlier in 2010 after he left Harvard.