Stanford Accepted Fraudulent Student After Harvard Expelled Him

On the face of things, it seems like Stanford (and Harvard) should have done a better job of vetting Adam Wheeler's application.

But really, with thousands of candidates applying, how can any admissions office handle THAT level of due diligence?

There should be a database, you say, of those who've been expelled. Well that really wouldn't fly due to privacy issues. Universities shouldn't be sharing amongst themselves the sort of private information supplied in applications.

But let's say there was such a database, shared by admission offices nationwide, with information about who has been expelled or who has lied on an application. That information had better be accurate, checked and doublechecked, because if someone is denied admission because of some faulty entry, there could be a big multimillion-dollar lawsuit stemming from that.

Hugh Mann of CA 2:47PM June 11, 2010