Student dupes Harvard University

23-year-old Adam Wheeler joined Harvard in 2007 but lied on his application about having perfect grades academic record at Phillips Academy in Andover,which he did not attend.

Wheeler,who also claimed to have studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,has been arrested and charged on several counts of identity fraud,larceny and forgery.

The New York Post reported that it wasn8217;t the first time he has been accused of cheating. Wheeler was kicked out of Bowdoin College in Maine in 2007 for 8220;academic dishonesty.8221;

The student proceeded to submit bogus letters of recommendation from real Bowdoin professors and had also lied about having perfect SAT scores.

At Harvard,Wheeler won the Winthrop Sargent Prize in English,the Hoopes Prize and a research grant worth a total of USD 14,000 allegedly on the basis of plagiarised writing,according to the Post.

In September last year,one Harvard professor finally grew suspicious after noticing that Wheeler8217;s Fulbright and Rhodes scholarship applications claimed straight A8217;s at Harvard were full of 8220;numerous books he co-authored,lectures he had given and courses he had taught,8221; Middlesex County Mass. District Attorney Gerald Leone,told the Post.

This finally prompted an investigation.

At the time of his arrest,the Post said Wheeler was applying to Yale and Brown and seeking an internship at a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts.