On her third attempt, having received rejections from Harvard, Yale and Oxford, she won a place at Cambridge to study history of art.Ĭalloway emerged with a 2:2, but not before she had made a name for herself. “I couldn’t live the rest of my life with an NYU email address,” she said. She was also already in college – she was studying at New York University at the time but had decided she wanted a change. I forged my when I got in.”Ĭalloway had already applied to Cambridge twice. In an interview with Vanity Fair, she admitted off-hand to lying to secure a place. You would imagine so, and yet American social-media star Caroline Calloway claims to have successfully duped one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world into giving her a place.Ĭalloway, whose appropriately named book, Scammer, comes out in a week, won a place at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, in 2013. “It’s impossible to lie about the important stuff,” they add. Another suggests it might be acceptable to say you played for the first XI in Lower Sixth even if you “got called up once because ten people were injured”. He is given short shrift in the responses: “If you’re going to lie about your achievements, then you’re probably not good enough for Oxbridge anyway,” scoffs one. It’s among the more egregious examples of “asking for a friend” you’re likely to read. Apparently quite a few people in my year decided to do so.” “It’s just I’ve heard people sometimes would tell a white lie.
“Has anyone ever lied on their application to Cambridge?” comes the tentative question on The Student Room website.
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