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

[Anonymous]

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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.

The poor college. How will U penn ever recover? Hopefully Penn will fire all the professors who gave her the high marks she made. There is no way she deserved those marks! It is so good we have these bastions of moral values. They would never bend the rules, act on petty jealousies, etc because they take their mission to educate young adults so seriously.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Well, exactly. Those of us reading and commenting may never know. And, if we don't know, we shouldn't condemn her.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

How long precisely was she a "ward of the state"? Where did she live during this time?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

How long precisely was she a "ward of the state"? Where did she live during this time?

Is your Google broken? Have you read even one article linked in this thread? Where did all your vitriol come from if you haven't read anything about what you're talking about? You're treating undisputed facts as lies. Was your kid rejected from Penn or something?

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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.

No, of course not. And you are moving the goalposts: you said that you are "team student" because you haven't read the source documents. So, you've already formed an opinion, presumably without those original documents that you say you need. I'm not saying that I believe she is a psycho, but I sure as heck don't default to believing her unreservedly, especially not with the evidence presented so far.

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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.

So you are okay with giving a psychopathic liar access to foster kids because of Wall Street?

[Anonymous]

I'm team sketch, based on the details out there so far. Also mentally filtering all the news articles, which always slant in some way, and don't always capture the full "truth" of any situation, no matter who it being written about. Mackenzie was a top student, an athlete, supposed to be 5'10" (that's tall), class president, driven, fully privileged and had strong conflicts with the mom. Her father is or was an actor. She obviously has some of mom's academically driven characteristics. What about the dad's?

Scenario: Something flared up with the mom & kid goes ballistic. Kid decides she'll show her. She's got it all covered & doesn't need a damn thing from mom, ever again. And basically, that was accomplished. Until she took it too far & got caught.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Well, exactly. Those of us reading and commenting may never know. And, if we don't know, we shouldn't condemn her.

I think we will know if she continues to pursue the lawsuit. I can think of several depositions I'd like to take if I was Penn's lawyers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bro the name should’ve been a dead giveaway!

People from the streets don’t name their kids mackenzie!

What kind of names do they have?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bro the name should’ve been a dead giveaway!

People from the streets don’t name their kids mackenzie!

You sound very sheltered.

DP I was thinking something else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm team sketch, based on the details out there so far. Also mentally filtering all the news articles, which always slant in some way, and don't always capture the full "truth" of any situation, no matter who it being written about. Mackenzie was a top student, an athlete, supposed to be 5'10" (that's tall), class president, driven, fully privileged and had strong conflicts with the mom. Her father is or was an actor. She obviously has some of mom's academically driven characteristics. What about the dad's?

Scenario: Something flared up with the mom & kid goes ballistic. Kid decides she'll show her. She's got it all covered & doesn't need a damn thing from mom, ever again. And basically, that was accomplished. Until she took it too far & got caught.

Or maybe the mother abused her?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

How long precisely was she a "ward of the state"? Where did she live during this time?

It doesn’t matter how long. She was in foster care. She lived with a foster family/group home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

So you are okay with giving a psychopathic liar access to foster kids because of Wall Street?

I am okay with somebody who wrote a college essay that was embellished but materially true helping foster children especially helping them get into college.

[Anonymous]

I haven't read most of this thread but I just want to say that, with Questbridge, I wonder if the high school doesn't have some blame. My kid was an abuse survivor and included that in their college essays years ago. The MCPS guidance counselor called me and verified the information. In a way, I was thankful because he later told us that several of the colleges called to verify the information also.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't read most of this thread but I just want to say that, with Questbridge, I wonder if the high school doesn't have some blame. My kid was an abuse survivor and included that in their college essays years ago. The MCPS guidance counselor called me and verified the information. In a way, I was thankful because he later told us that several of the colleges called to verify the information also.

I posted this. Just to clarify, he didn't just verify with me. He actually called the elementary school to verify it.