When most students with study abroad programs are struggling to write books in the middle of the night, they are not going to do anything for a little improvement
When most prospective international students work hard in the middle of the night, when they go to endless brushing and reviewing for a little bit of score improvement, they must have the same feeling, tired.
As a result, there are so many lazy children, or "smart" children, who think of a shortcut - counterfeiting, going up to the exam, modifying the score, down to the material ghostwriting, the document ghostwriting.
Remember the high-profile admission fraud case at a prestigious American school 3 years ago? Spend $15,000-75,000, cheat packages at your choice, girls who can't play soccer for $1.2 million can also be admitted to Yale University as soccer stars, including Hollywood stars, Felicity Hoffman, who starred in "Desperate Housewives" and others have been involved, it is really a pit baby and hurt herself.
△ The picture shows the arrest warrants filed by the court against Felicity Hoffman and Lori Lugelin in the famous school fraud case
Recently, the University of Pennsylvania broke out, the school's famous graduates, Rhodes scholars (32 out of 2300 people to oxford university for further study, Penn President wrote praise) Mackenzie Fierceton application for university materials, and application for Rhodes scholars are all! false! target!
Not only did Fierceton lie that he was a low-income family, homosexual, first-generation college student, but he also staged abuse by his mother and even sent her to prison...
Currently, Fierceton Rhodes Scholar has been disqualified and her Penn master's degree has been withheld, but because Fierceton's Penn undergraduate has graduated, there is no news that her undergraduate degree has been canceled.
#01
Tragic childhood, self-reliant tomorrow's proud son
If you were an examiner and had the following two applications in front of you, which one would you choose?
A. Excellent candidates with passing scores, well-off families, and growing up in a good educational atmosphere.
B. Inspirational candidates who have passed the score, have poor families, struggle to survive in insults, beatings, and expulsion, and insist on learning for self-improvement, and finally achieve excellent results.
Perhaps most people will choose the B candidate, whether it is the empathy that the tragic life brings to people, or the good quality of never bowing down in the face of difficulties. The so-called Tianxingjian, a gentleman who strives for self-improvement, how the B examinees look at it is an example of an excellent college student.
Mackenzie Fierceton is this B candidate.
In her essay on her application to the University of Pennsylvania, she wrote about her tragic experience, in which a perfect student who grew up in adversity, became the first college student in her family, and took all the courses during her school years jumped on the paper.
So, unsurprisingly, I got an offer from the University of Pennsylvania.
Rhodes Scholarship, a world-class scholarship with a century-old history, is known as the "Global Undergraduate Nobel Prize" and the most difficult scholarship in the world to apply for.
Students who are able to receive this prestigious award will receive a full scholarship of about $70,000 per year to pursue a master's or doctoral degree at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and will be free to study the full range of subjects offered by Oxford University, including life sciences, arts and humanities, social sciences, mathematics and physical sciences.
A total of 32 students worldwide will be awarded in 2021, and the excerpted part of the list is as follows:
Shera S. Avi-Yonah, Harvard University
Jeremy N. Thomas Amherst College
Asma Rahimyar Southern Connecticut State University
Lillian N. Usadi U.S. Naval Officers College
Danielle N. Grey-Stewart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brian Reyes Yale University
Mackenzie C. Fierceton, University of Pennsylvania
Victoria Puglia Lafayette College
Nicolas J.W. Fishman Stanford University
Samuel E. Patterson, University of Maryland
Her name was prominently listed, becoming the pride of Penn, and everyone was waiting for her future.
#02
Falling off the altar, the so-called light of tomorrow is nothing but a lie
On January 11, 2022, a report in the Chronicle of Higher Education tore her mask to shreds, exposing her true side and the dark side of elite university applications.
An anonymous whistleblower reported that Fierceton was suspected of falsifying his applications at the University of Pennsylvania and Rhodes University, and the application documents were full of fraudulent acts such as selling misery and lying.
The email reportedly claimed that Fierceton grew up with her mother in St. Louis, Missouri, and that the first lie to be debunked was the so-called family's first college student. His grandfather graduated from college, and his mother was a highly educated radiologist with an annual income of more than a million dollars. Proper family prosperity is not what she calls a poor family.
At the same time, she did not attend ordinary high schools in high school, but a high-quality private school with expensive tuition fees, Whitfield School, which costs $30,000 in tuition alone, which is a high tuition fee. In addition, she has many hobbies: horseback riding, skydiving, rafting and so on.
The most exaggerated thing is that Fierceton mentions the tragic abuse of her mother in the document - she was thrown down the stairs by her mother, thrown on the metal table and hit her face, so she went to the hospital, "hair was stained with dry blood", facial features were "twisted and swollen, can't be distinguished, to go to the bathroom required a team of nurses, the whole face was stabilized by braces - also "fake real".
Because of her complaint, the mother was arrested on suspicion of abusing her children. But prosecutors later argued there was no evidence that her mother had abused her daughter, and the charges were dropped in 2014.
Her mother, Morrison, told the media in a statement: "Fierceton is deeply loved by me and my family. Our greatest desire is that Fierceton choose to live a happy, healthy, honest and productive life, using her extraordinary talents to achieve the highest good. ”
The most dramatic scene is that Fierceton goes to a foster home after this abuse and changes her surname to Fierceton (she originally went with her mother's surname Morrison).
In the subsequent Rhodes Scholarship application, she once again staged perfect acting skills and line skills, and successfully touched the organizing committee with stories of overcoming financial difficulties, years of abuse by her mother, and the difficult conditions of foster families. Win this award, which is unattainable among many students.
Soon after, several anonymous students contacted the Rhodes Scholarship Board and the University of Pennsylvania to report her "blatant fraud," a mutilated fraud that surfaced through media reports.
A statement from the University of Pennsylvania said: "Authenticity is critical to the university's academic integrity and is a core selection criterion for Rhodes Scholarships. ”
At this point, Fierceton was detained with a master's degree from Penn (whether the undergraduate degree was cancelled or not is unknown), a Rhodes scholarship was canceled, and a generation of proud women fell to the altar.
We don't know if Fieretton's series of scams was done by himself or by a trader behind it (similar to Singh, the man behind the famous school fraud case), and if it was the latter, it would be really terrible.
#03
Low-end scams are not investigated,
Recruiting examiners for "corpse vegetarian meals"?
The Fierceton incident was flawed if seriously, and a single background check had punctured everything, but why was it safe and sound throughout the undergraduate period? Just by selling miserable, can you get the entry qualification of a famous school?
The answer is yes, remember the American Talent Show and other elective shows, under the same strength, the more fierce the seller, the more fierce the tutor cries, then the greater the probability of promotion.
△ In 2015, an Indian named Vijay Chokal-Ingam deliberately applied to the medical school of an American university through two identities. Disguised as a black man, he easier obtained an acceptance letter from an American medical school.
And now the college application, like a variety show, is like a show, a "clerical draft competition".
The first thing the recruiting examiner sees is not the international student himself, but one of his documents, and everyone must win the favor of the examiner through limited text power, press the button, and turn around for you.
So in order to be able to win the eyeballs, exaggerated, packaged, lying, fake, eighteen martial arts in unison, what parents die self-reliance, endure cold eyes and persevere. As long as the story is told well, the offer of famous schools cannot run!
In addition to the tragic childhood, homosexuality, racial discrimination, disability, etc. can be used as "selling points" to create their own personalities, and the recruiters who are impressed by the trust in the students, with a big stroke of the pen, everything will settle down.
#04
The number of applicants is 10,000
Why can it stand out just by selling misery?
At this time, many friends will ask a question, is this not cheating? Isn't cheating in another sense? Don't American colleges hate cheating the most?
The fundamental factor is time, generally speaking, the slightly more well-known institutions, each year to receive tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of documents, then in the limited enrollment time, the time for the admission examiner to read each material will be suppressed, even less than ten minutes.
That is to say, they have no time or energy to do back-ups, and the American system also determines that no one is willing to devote a lot of time to the so-called review.
In addition, the document is our language composition, is there a standard answer? No, every document is based on personal stories, personal experiences to write a personal subjective article, there is no perfect way to judge the truth or falsity. Instead, judgments are made based on experience, intuition, and the principles of integrity.
Therefore, it has created an embarrassing situation that is now selling miserably. And selling misery is not exclusive to the United States, looking at the world, as long as it is a person who wants to enter an American university, he has more or less had some polishing behavior in personal documents.
Therefore, the ghostwriting of documents has become an industry with a complete chain, and relevant practitioners have disclosed on the Internet that he has written more than 350 documents with fraudulent behavior for international students and exchange students in three years. And the price of each paperwork is $400, starting from scratch and ultimately having financial freedom.
Most of the clients who come to him are not from the United States, and they are limited by language barriers and cannot write smooth and accurate articles that express meaning. He wrote different articles through almost the main story line, combined with some of the students' lives. Let the recruiter still remember it even after watching a hundred "tragic" stories in a day.
The international student group provides a stable user group for ghostwriting, and the imperfect censorship system of colleges and universities provides soil for ghostwriting to grow.
And once the matter is revealed, all the consequences have nothing to do with them, after all, they are just "writing an essay". In the end, students lose their reverence for integrity, and colleges and universities lose the hope of tomorrow with a pure heart. Only the writer wins everything he wants.
Everything obtained through counterfeiting is like a bubble bursting in the end, and it is in vain in an instant, even if it fraudulently obtains the offer of a famous school, just like a crow falling in the phoenix group, whether it can successfully graduate is also unknown.