UMC suburban college student lied about background to become prestigious Rhodes Scholar

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Anonymous wrote:Is the girl sock puppeting in this thread or is this thread just full of pathological lying DMV scammers who empathize with her?

As someone who came from an extremely dysfunctional middle class home that was sometimes dangerous, as someone who worked for universities, and as someone who has need to correct the misinformation and exaggerations by reporters, I'm team student. I've seen a bunch of comments on this thread that she lied on this or that essay/application, but I haven't seen those documents so I don't know that those comments are correct.

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Do you literally need to read every source document to believe something? That's an interesting approach to life.

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Journal of higher education not college board

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you literally need to read every source document to believe something? That's an interesting approach to life.

Really? If someone writes "she's a psycho. I read she lied on x, y, and z." that's enough for you to believe? It seems like a complicated case and I don't feel like I know anything for sure, but I'm not going to label someone a pathological liar based on gossip. I am also a historian, so, yeah, if I read something in an article that seems off, I will go seek out other confirmatory sources before I form an opinion.

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I think it’s funny that PPs that hear something they disagree with say cite that or prove that! Do your own research. Google is your friend.

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Anonymous wrote:Sadly, my kids have fallen down those padded steps many times. The result: bruised Fanny and a bruised arm. I didn’t take them to the ER because … no serious injury. But my kids are not mentally ill.

Then why did she need ~month in the hospital to recover? Part of it in the ICU?

This is a great question. Why did she spend so much time in the hospital when the injuries didn't warrant it? One has to wonder.

how do you know the injuries didn't warrant one month at the hospital?

The Rhodes Committee mentioned the claims didn't match the hospital records. For example she said she needed braces but no bones were broken. If we look into this more I believe we will find no evidence that her hair was matted with blood and her facial lacerations made her unrecognizable as she claimed. Basically they didn't believe her and they saw the records.

If you read the Chronicle article it says she was in a neck brace for a time and they quoted a nurse who said she helped her wash blood out of her hair. I think she exaggerated the extent of the injuries for the essay (whether that's artistic license or being a dirty rotten liar seems to depend on whether Penn is proud of her at the time the statement is made) but people pretending she was never hurt at all are confusing as hell. Is it just a black and white view of the world: she's either the most victimized person in history or it's completely fabricated? She collapsed at school, spent 3 weeks in the hospital, she was removed from her mother's house by CPS. There's no honest reading of the facts that comes up with "nothing happened to her at all."

[Anonymous]

Questbridge ought to claw back the scholarship it sounds like she stole under false pretenses. I'd bet anything there is ZERO chance she told Questbridge her mom was an M.D. Instead of being content with stealing a full Icy League undergraduate scholarship, she doubled down and tried to steal more. What other internships and fellowships and scholarships did she pursue the last four years? Go watch American Greed, this gal seems to fit the profile of basically every schemer featured on that show. The lies and theft tend to only get bigger as they go on.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the girl sock puppeting in this thread or is this thread just full of pathological lying DMV scammers who empathize with her?

As someone who came from an extremely dysfunctional middle class home that was sometimes dangerous, as someone who worked for universities, and as someone who has need to correct the misinformation and exaggerations by reporters, I'm team student. I've seen a bunch of comments on this thread that she lied on this or that essay/application, but I haven't seen those documents so I don't know that those comments are correct.

Yeah, let us just pull up all of her internal college documents from age 17 onward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Questbridge ought to claw back the scholarship it sounds like she stole under false pretenses. I'd bet anything there is ZERO chance she told Questbridge her mom was an M.D. Instead of being content with stealing a full Icy League undergraduate scholarship, she doubled down and tried to steal more. What other internships and fellowships and scholarships did she pursue the last four years? Go watch American Greed, this gal seems to fit the profile of basically every schemer featured on that show. The lies and theft tend to only get bigger as they go on.

It doesn’t matter what your mom does when you are a ward of the state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the girl sock puppeting in this thread or is this thread just full of pathological lying DMV scammers who empathize with her?

Hi PENN! You screwed the pooch on this one.

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Anonymous wrote:Shouldn’t Questbridge have egg on their face too? Questbridge for Penn is literally a $300,000+ scholarship!

No because they helped an abused minor who has no family get an education. She is more likely to help fix the foster care system than some lax bro going to Wall Street.

If she turns out to be a psychopathic liar, she could do tremendous damage to vulnerable minors in the foster care system.

Most psychopathic liars end up in Wall Street … you seem to not care they cost the US - $1B / day. But sure convince me you care about foster kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Questbridge ought to claw back the scholarship it sounds like she stole under false pretenses. I'd bet anything there is ZERO chance she told Questbridge her mom was an M.D. Instead of being content with stealing a full Icy League undergraduate scholarship, she doubled down and tried to steal more. What other internships and fellowships and scholarships did she pursue the last four years? Go watch American Greed, this gal seems to fit the profile of basically every schemer featured on that show. The lies and theft tend to only get bigger as they go on.

It doesn’t matter what your mom does when you are a ward of the state.

You seem to be trying to lie for her. Are you the schemer? Because admitting your mom was a Medical Doctor would have thrown off all sorts of red flags and skepticism to Questbridge. Of course she lied on that Questbridge app, it is an exhausting app.

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Is her father alive? Profession?

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Anonymous wrote:Questbridge ought to claw back the scholarship it sounds like she stole under false pretenses. I'd bet anything there is ZERO chance she told Questbridge her mom was an M.D. Instead of being content with stealing a full Icy League undergraduate scholarship, she doubled down and tried to steal more. What other internships and fellowships and scholarships did she pursue the last four years? Go watch American Greed, this gal seems to fit the profile of basically every schemer featured on that show. The lies and theft tend to only get bigger as they go on.

It doesn’t matter what your mom does when you are a ward of the state.

You seem to be trying to lie for her. Are you the schemer? Because admitting your mom was a Medical Doctor would have thrown off all sorts of red flags and skepticism to Questbridge. Of course she lied on that Questbridge app, it is an exhausting app.

DP but what are you on about? She was a ward of the state when she applied to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Questbridge ought to claw back the scholarship it sounds like she stole under false pretenses. I'd bet anything there is ZERO chance she told Questbridge her mom was an M.D. Instead of being content with stealing a full Icy League undergraduate scholarship, she doubled down and tried to steal more. What other internships and fellowships and scholarships did she pursue the last four years? Go watch American Greed, this gal seems to fit the profile of basically every schemer featured on that show. The lies and theft tend to only get bigger as they go on.