The Background
OK, who remembers Kaavya, the good-looking, bright, nineteen year old Harvard sophomore, who published a novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, that earned her a six figure advance and a two-book contract from Little, Brown, all of which went kerflooey when it was discovered that - oops - multiple passages from her novel were similar in style and content to passages from two of Megan McCafferty’s books? 1
Well, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Meet Aleksey Vayner, the new poster child for the Ivy League Chapter Of Fatally Flawed Fudgers
While Kaavya did a bit of poorly planned self-promotion and, after her plagiarism was discovered, put up an ill advised quasi-amnesia defense, Aleksy, a senior at Yale, submitted an application for a hot shot banking position that was so over the top that his resume and video circulated through Wall Street like an OPEC price increase rumor. According to one hedge-fund analyst, “He single-handedly decreased trading volumes over the last two hours of the day because everyone was laughing too hard.”
And all that was before the - ah, … disparities began to show up.
The Story
If this story, which began circulating late last week is new to you, despair not; I’ve prepared a tutorial:
1. Read the summarized Dowjones Business News story at Yale Student’s Resume, Video Make Splash On Wall Street
2. I recommend the following posts at IvyGate.
- How Not to Apply for a Job in I-Banking
- Will the Real Aleksey Vayner Please Stand Up?
- Lord of the Lies: Aleksey Vayner Outdoes Himself
- Alright, We’re Just Gonna Say It: He’s the New Kaavya
3. And, finally, let’s go to the (Youtube) video
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