{"id":569379,"date":"2010-05-18T23:54:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/?p=11179"},"modified":"2010-05-18T23:54:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:54:09","slug":"harvard-scammer%e2%80%99s-web-of-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569379","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Scammer\u2019s Web of Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/12501707_BG1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/12501707_BG1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Adam B. Wheeler<\/strong>, a 23-year-old, was a senior at <strong>Harvard<\/strong> before officials at the university discovered his scam. Reports say that <em>Wheeler <\/em>allegedly forged his way into <strong>Harvard University<\/strong> by submitting false transcripts stating that he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the elite <strong>Phillips Academy<\/strong>. But the truth is that he attended high school in <strong>Delaware<\/strong> then attended <strong>Bowdoin College<\/strong> but was suspended for plagiarism. During his suspension, the appliet to transfer to Harvard. He also stated that he scored 1600,\u00a0 a perfect score, on his SAT; but, the truth was that he only scored 1100. After he transferred at Harvard, he earned about $45,000 in scholarship grants, awards and financial aid. His scam was known when he applied for <strong>Rhodes and Fullbright<\/strong> scholarships using his fake credentials, transcript and work that he plagiarized. A Harvard professor who was reviewing the application for the scolarships then grew suspicious. It was not long when they found aout that his application was bogus and they learned that he forged transcript from <strong>MIT<\/strong> with letter grades \u2013 MIT uses numerical system for scoring \u2013 and that he had claimed to take classes at <strong>Phillips<\/strong> that was not even offered.<\/p>\n<p>Clerk Magistrate <strong>Michael Sullivan<\/strong> stated that if Wheeler was to post bail, he would not be allowed to leave the state and be required to surrender his passport, stay away form Harvard university and other institutuions which he applied for interships and acceptance which included <strong>Yale University<\/strong> and <strong>Brown University<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A telephone call from Yale about his application expressing their doubts about the veracity of parts of Adam\u2019s transfer application alarmed his parents, <strong>Richard<\/strong> and <strong>Lee Wheeler<\/strong>. They then forced their son to tell the caller that the application was fake and that he had been kicked out of Harvard.The <strong>New Republic<\/strong> \u2013 a news magazine based in <strong>Washington<\/strong>, <strong>DC<\/strong> \u2013 posted on their blog that Wheeler had sent them an application letter for intership earlier this 2010 after he was dismissed form Harvard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sullivan<\/strong> scheduled Wheeler\u2019s next hearing for June 9.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/general\/2010\/delaware-man-made-a-fake-way-to-harvard\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Delaware Man made a Fake Way to Harvard'>Delaware Man made a Fake Way to Harvard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/general\/2010\/adam-wheeler-fakes-his-way-into-harvard\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Adam Wheeler Fakes His Way Into Harvard'>Adam Wheeler Fakes His Way Into Harvard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/world\/2010\/russian-president-medvedev-at-poland-presidents-funeral\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Russian President Medvedev at Poland President&#8217;s Funeral'>Russian President Medvedev at Poland President&#8217;s Funeral<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/sevensidedcube\/OXLF\/~4\/lDzM6E9Vr2E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam B. Wheeler, a 23-year-old, was a senior at Harvard before officials at the university discovered his scam. Reports say that Wheeler allegedly forged his way into Harvard University by submitting false transcripts stating that he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the elite Phillips Academy. But the truth is that he attended high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}