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...Akash Maharaj was convicted of bilking Yale out of $46,000 in financial aid by submitting a false transcript from Columbia which led to his admission as a Yale transfer student...
Harvard and Yale admissions staff declined to comment about Wheeler’s case...
...Rodney in 2005, the school “kind of lost track of him,” Fitzgerald said. But in late April of this year, the former student’s name snuck back onto the radar: the high school received an inquiry from an admissions officer at Yale, who asked Caesar Rodney to verify data on Wheeler’s transfer application...
...said, ‘No, these are not correct,’ and from that point, it became more complicated,” said Fitzgerald, who added that Caesar Rodney’s involvement in the Wheeler case did not extend beyond the school’s interactions with Yale. “The flags went up because, ‘Hey, there’s a problem here. This guy is trying to get away with something that’s wrong...
Fitzgerald said he believes that the Yale admissions office did not contact Caesar Rodney in April out of suspicion regarding the authenticity of Wheeler’s application, but to conduct a standard vetting procedure of applicants. But with the emergence of the various warning signs, the Yale admissions office contacted its counterpart at Harvard, which Wheeler had left in the fall of 2009 when faced with charges of academic dishonesty...