Posted on 01/12/2022 6:02:23 AM PST by Red Badger
In November 2020, when University of Pennsylvania graduate student Mackenzie Fierceton won the prestigious and highly competitive Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford — one of just 32 scholars selected from a pool of 2,300 applicants — she was praised by the Ivy League school’s president in a newsletter.
“Mackenzie is so deserving of this prestigious opportunity,” declared president Amy Gutmann of the 23-year-old from suburban St. Louis. “As a first-generation [to go to college] low-income student and a former foster youth, Mackenzie is passionate about championing young people [and] dedicating herself to a life of public service.”
But a few months later, Fierceton had lost her prestigious scholarship and was fighting against accusations that she had been “blatantly dishonest” about her childhood in her Penn and Rhodes applications.
Now, the investigation into her story is being revealed by the Chronicle of Higher Education — including the Rhodes committee’s findings that Fierceton “created and repeatedly shared false narratives about herself,” using these “misrepresentations” to “serve her interests as an applicant for competitive programs.”
The case also exposes the murky underbelly of elite schools like Penn and their quest to “show that they’re transforming society rather than laundering its inequalities” by accepting “remarkable” applicants with truly tragic backgrounds, according to the Chronicle report.
Multiple college consultants told The Post that the college application process now features more questions about overcoming obstacles. The 2021-2022 essay prompts from Common App, the organization that oversees undergrad applications for more than 900 schools, include “Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure.”
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I know a Rhodes Scholar who’s father was a well-known doctor in her city.
I didn’t know there was supposed to be a tie-in with poverty.
It’s a relatively new addition to the applications...............
Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar.....................
Lying about their background worked for Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal. Last I heard they are still US senators.
She simply self-defined herself as a needy child of poverty.
If you can do it with sex & race and its acceptable why not economic situation?
The left isn’t even consistent in their frauds!
She simply self-defined herself as a needy child of poverty.
If you can do it with sex & race and its acceptable why not economic situation?
The left isn’t even consistent in their frauds!
I don’t blame anyone who lies about their race or background to get into college since this is the way the game has to be played these days.
I don’t blame anyone who lies about their race or background to get into college since this is the way the game has to be played these days.
Victim hood, just what every youth aspires to these days
She looks pretty not guilty...
The person with the biggest sob story wins.
Me Fierceton’s problem is one of melanin deficiency. Had she a darker complexion she would be lauded for her creative abilities and awarded a PhD in Classical Corn Row Design.
> “Recount a time when you faced a challenge, setback, or failure.” <
On my application to be a Rhodes Scholar, I told about the time Free Republic was down for two days. I was despondent as I was without a source of unfiltered news.
I never did hear back from the Rhodes Scholarship committee. Maybe my application got lost in the mail.
Leftists lie, it’s born into them.
Sounds par for the course. What's the complaint?
It takes bright college student who have demonstrated that they can be reliable servants of the global order and connects them with the lords of the global order. That is exactly what Rhodes was looking for when he created the scholarship in the first place.
And just look at who has gotten it and where they have gone.
People who have lived on the internet for so many years are so used to making up their own story...they “forget” where their own avatar ends...and where their real world starts.
She looks pretty not poor....................
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