By TAMAR LEWIN, NY Times
Published: April 26, 2007

Marilee Jones, the dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became famous for urging stressed-out students competing for elite colleges to calm down and stop trying to be perfect. But today she admitted that she had fabricated her own academic educational credentials, and resigned after nearly three decades at the university.

Ms. Jones on various occasions had represented herself as having degrees from Albany Medical College, Union College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, but she had no degrees from any of those places, said Phillip L. Clay, the chancellor of M.I.T.

Ms. Jones had recently been promoting a book, “Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College Admissions and Beyond,” co-written with Dr. Kenneth R. Ginsburg. It had made her the guru of the movement to tame the college-admissions frenzy.

jay: delicious too-obvious irony, how i do love you so. you are the icing on the cupcake that is my thrice daily read through the news.

rob: i find her actions wholly consistent with her words, actually. everybody calm down and stop trying to be perfect, she says. just pretend you have the goods, and people are generally way too lazy to check. presto!

jay: you’re right. she is consistent, at least in terms of the book. i stand corrected. question: good for book sales? bad for book sales?

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