Craigslist ad offers you chance to attend Harvard and get paid $170,000 for it
- 10 years ago
Harvard University is one of the world's most expensive educational institutions. But if a Craigslist ad is to be believed, one lucky man may get the chance to not only attend the prestigious college, but also to get paid doing it.
Offering a grand total $170,000, a Pittsburgh man is in search of someone to attend Harvard in his stead.
His only requirements: That you're male and have a good GPA.
While the ad has since been taken down and its author incommunicado, here are the details courtesy of a report by The Atlantic:
"You must have either a 4.0 GPA in high school, or a 3.5 or higher GPA from a university to get hired for this.
"Your age does not matter, but you must be a male since I have a male name.
"I am looking for someone to attend Harvard University pretending to be me for four years, starting August 2014. I will pay for your tuition, books, housing, transportation, and living expenses and pay $40,000 a year with a $10,000 bonus after graduation. All you have to do is attend all classes, pass all tests, and finish all assigned work, while pretending you are me.
"You do not need to worry about being accepted, I have already taken care of that.
"If interested please email me a little info about yourself, and we can meet in person to discuss further."
As noted in a tweet by Politico writer Libby Nelson the ad sounds like it could be the premise of an '80s comedy.
Well, we decided to give it the TomoNews treatment. What would happen if a Sikh man attended Harvard in place of a young Orthodox Jewish high school graduate? Hm, we wonder...
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Offering a grand total $170,000, a Pittsburgh man is in search of someone to attend Harvard in his stead.
His only requirements: That you're male and have a good GPA.
While the ad has since been taken down and its author incommunicado, here are the details courtesy of a report by The Atlantic:
"You must have either a 4.0 GPA in high school, or a 3.5 or higher GPA from a university to get hired for this.
"Your age does not matter, but you must be a male since I have a male name.
"I am looking for someone to attend Harvard University pretending to be me for four years, starting August 2014. I will pay for your tuition, books, housing, transportation, and living expenses and pay $40,000 a year with a $10,000 bonus after graduation. All you have to do is attend all classes, pass all tests, and finish all assigned work, while pretending you are me.
"You do not need to worry about being accepted, I have already taken care of that.
"If interested please email me a little info about yourself, and we can meet in person to discuss further."
As noted in a tweet by Politico writer Libby Nelson the ad sounds like it could be the premise of an '80s comedy.
Well, we decided to give it the TomoNews treatment. What would happen if a Sikh man attended Harvard in place of a young Orthodox Jewish high school graduate? Hm, we wonder...
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