“Harvard knew she lied.
Says all that needs be said about both.”
I have a friend who, while interviewing for a graduate position, was approached by Harvard in a manner outside the rules for recruitment. It was a computerized ‘match’ recruitment, in which the applicant lists their top choices and the institutions list theirs. They contacted him to say they really wanted him, and would put him at the top of their match list if he guaranteed them that he would put them first on his list. He said to them ‘Isn’t this outside the rules of the match program?’. They said, ‘yes, but it’s good for Harvard, and what’s good for Harvard is good for the world’. True story.
Other programs also try to cheat the match, but the arrogance evidenced by that statement is very telling.
As often noted, William F. Buckley Jr. said he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 members of the Harvard faculty.