His next job will be in the Obama Administration..

Whiz kid allegedly conned way into Harvard.

Armed with a computer, a baby-faced con man effortlessly bamboozled Harvard University, amassing $46,000 in competitive financial aid based on letters of recommendation he fabricated and educational bragging rights he hadn’t earned, prosecutors have charged.

Even knowing Harvard had caught on to him last fall, accused Ivy League impostor Adam Wheeler, 23, then a senior English major, brazenly tried to get transferred to Yale and Brown universities, Middlesex District Attorney Gerard Leone Jr. yesterday said.

“We can’t know exactly what his purpose was, but it was working for him,” Leone begrudgingly marveled. “This is an elaborate and tangled web of lies and deceit.”

An unnamed Harvard professor blew the whistle on Wheeler when, while reviewing his September applications for Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships boasting of straight A’s, published books and a lecture tour, the professor thought they looked familiar - from another professor’s resume.

Wheeler was arrested yesterday in his home state of Delaware on 20 indictments charging him with larceny, identity fraud and falsifying documents. He had been accepted at Harvard in 2007 as a sophomore transfer student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a graduate of Phillips Academy in Andover.

Trouble is, Leone said, Wheeler never attended MIT or Phillips and in fact had been booted out of Bowdoin College in Maine for “academic dishonesty.”

The shocking scam accusations raise questions about how thoroughly the world’s most prestigious university screens applicants - questions Harvard yesterday steered back to Leone.

“Federal privacy laws prevent us from discussing individual cases,” a Harvard statement said. “In the rare instance when we discover that someone has falsified his or her application materials, we typically rescind that individual’s admission.”

Leone promised even more details will unfold today when prosecutor John Verner arraigns the accused wannabe whiz kid in Middlesex Superior Court.

MIT declined comment. Phillips spokeswoman Tracy Sweet said, “The individual in this case has had no association whatsoever with Phillips Academy.”

Wheeler came to Bowdoin in 2005, college spokesman Doug Boxer-Cook said. He declined to elaborate on the path Wheeler’s education took after that, only to confirm, “Wheeler is no longer associated with Bowdoin College.”

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/region..._the_crop/

I need to hire him for our sales team STAT

Pretty funny stuff. If not for cutting and pasting from the profs resume he would have gotten away with it.

Don't know why Harvard had him arrested - the publicity of their inability to see through the BS makes them look bad. They should have quietly told him to leave.

Who the heck cons his way into Harvard only to major in English? He should have been a business major - suits his talents better and with his lack of ethics, he would fit right in.