Conning Harvard: The True Story of the Con Artist Who Faked His Way into the Ivy League

by Julie Zauzmer, Xi Yu

Overview

The inside story of the serial scammer who forged his way into the nation's most prestigious university.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762787432
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	09/03/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Julie Zauzmer is a Harvard University senior who began covering the Adam Wheeler story for The Harvard Crimson in 2010. She is currently the managing editor of The Harvard Crimson and will graduate from Harvard in May 2013.

 

Editorial Reviews

"Conning Harvard proves that what I did over 40 years ago is 4,000 times easier to do today due to technology. Technology breeds crime and makes replicating documents and falsifying paper child's play. This, added with the fact that we live in an extremely unethical society that doesn't teach ethics at home and doesn't teach ethics at school because the teacher would be accused of teaching morality, has brought us today to a country full of Adam Wheelers. For those that are naive, a must read." —Frank W. Abagnale, author of Catch Me If You Can "... the bizarre nature of the case is hook enough." —Publishers Weekly Zauzmer's well-researched book is practically a how-to guide for scamming a college admissions process…To report on the extent of Wheeler's fraud, Zauzmer scrutinizes the college admissions system even more carefully than her subject did... —Philadelphia Inquirer The startling revelations about Wheeler's exploits accumulate so quickly in Julie Zauzmer's ripping 'Conning Harvard' that at times this meticulously reported nonfiction narrative reads like a potboiler." -The Washington Post "A handbook for teens on how not to get into Harvard—and, perhaps, a reminder that Harvard isn't infallible." —Booklist

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