A Rhodes Scholar who won a coveted scholarship at Oxford after claiming she overcame childhood abuse and grew up in foster care has been accused of lying to officials and is in fact the daughter of a radiologist who went to private school.
Mackenzie Fierceton, 24, describes herself as a 'queer, first generation, low income' student at The University of Pennsylvania. In 2020, she was given a scholarship to go to Oxford after dazzling the Rhodes Trust with her story of how she overcame welfare, an abusive mother and the foster care system.
In other words, she saw the boxes and decided to tick them all. After all, why not? It's not like anyone ever checks, clearly:
But after a November 2020 Philadelphia Inquirer news article about the scholarship, lauded her as a 'first-generation student' who 'has been low-income throughout her life, and grew up in foster care,' an anonymous tipster contacted the Rhodes Trust and UPenn to report her for being 'blatantly dishonest'.
Ooops!
Now, she has withdrawn from the Rhodes program and UPenn is withholding her masters degree pending further investigation.
Be sure your sins will find you out...but what does mum - sorry, mom - have to say about this?
In a statement to The Chronicle in light of the scholarship being revoked, Dr. Morrison said of her daughter: 'Mackenzie is deeply loved by her mom and family.
'Our greatest desire is that Mackenzie chooses to live a happy, healthy, honest, and productive life, using her extraordinary gifts for the highest good.'
She could go into politics or journalism, I guess. She seems eminently qualified.
Didn't she claim to be black? Or American Indian?
ReplyDeleteAn oversight on her part, no doubt.
I recall a few years ago, a white girl claimed she was black and Elizabeth Warren was dubbed Pocahontas by President Trump after she falsely claimed to be of American Indian descent.
It seems to me that lefties are predisposed to lying, and living in a fantasy world of their own creation. And have a tendency to violence when they are exposed.
She should have done, why not go for the hat trick!
DeleteShirley, there's an American version of obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception? If there is, book the bitch. Her actions may prevent more worthy applicants from succeeding.
ReplyDeleteSadly, no-one has the balls to treat these people as they deserve. And so we'll see more of them.
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