Student Dupes Yale Into Admission, Free Money
Continuing my tangent of alerting you to education-tinged stories in other people's papers, here's something out of today's New York Times.
It relates the tale of a student-cum-con-man, who falsified transcripts, lied on his application and was ultimately rewarded with not only admission to Yale University, but more than 30 G's (that's $30,000-plus, people) in scholarships.
Smarty pants!
Apparently the deception of the devious Mr. Akash Maharaj was discovered by officials last year and he was promptly dismissed from the school ... and this is all coming to light only now thanks to student paper the Yale Daily News, which reported it earlier this week.