Katy Roberts , Columnist

Cheating at Harvard Exposes an Admissions Game

September 4, 2012 at 3:50 PM UTC

Katy Roberts is an editor for Bloomberg Opinion. She previously worked at the New York Times, serving as national editor and editor of the op-ed page and Week in Review (now Sunday Review).

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The news that 125 students at Harvard are under investigation for cheating has caused a reaction often heard when the mighty fall.

How could they have been so stupid?