June 8, 2007

Impostor Student at Stanford U.

By PAULA WASLEY

A California student with her heart set on Stanford seems to have taken literally Woody Allen's famous aphorism that "80 percent of success is just showing up."

According to The Stanford Daily, 18-year-old Azia Kim appeared last fall on the Stanford campus, even though she had not been admitted, and spent the next eight months posing as a biology major, buying textbooks, attending classes, and cramming with friends for exams she couldn't take.

Ms. Kim told an unsuspecting

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