RSS FeedQuami Frederick Forged Law School Marks Too!
I have just a little bit of sympathy for Quami Frederick, the young woman who faked her undergrad degree to get into Osgoode Hall.
A single mother, she now has $80,000 in student debt that she will have a tougher time paying back without a law career.
Fredrick recently resigned from her position at Wildeboer Dellelce.
But the sympathy quickly dissolves when The Star reveals today that she faked her law school marks too to get the job with Wildeboer Dellelce.
The altered marks, with a C upgraded to A in some cases, came to light when the law firm and Osgoode shared notes on Frederick.
Fredrick will be going to formal inquiry at Osgoode. Whereas some leniency or remedial work may have been possible with just the undergrad situation, the fact that she continued this dishonesty all the way through law school does not bode well for her future.
Dale Brazao at The Star also gives us a shout out,
In the last three days Frederick has become a cause célèbre among bloggers on the Internet, who have posted reactions ranging from outrage and mockery to praise for Frederick for beating the system.
We love you too, especially for catching the dishonest people that exclude other hard-working applicants to law school, and perpetuate fraud in the legal hiring practice.
What I would have included on my application to Osgoode, had I known you were permitted to make things up
This site’s readership will be all too familiar with the rigorous process of applying to Canadian law schools, starting with the LSAT and ending (it is to be presumed) with a vetting of one’s academic and professional credentials against those of one’s fellow candidates. The most deserving students receive early confirmation of acceptance to their first-choice schools. For the rest of us, months may pass before a position is secured; unease turns to anxiety turns to panic, until we would accept an invitation to the Novgorod School of Law just to return some certainty to our lives.
But fear not, would-be law school freshmen, for there is an easier way! Third year (former) LLB candidate Quami Frederick has the secret to a stress-free application process: fabricating a significant element of your application. As previously reported here, Frederick’s artificial B.Sc. in Business Administration opened the door to Osgoode Hall and might have launched a stellar legal career, but for the investigative journalism of the Toronto Star.
I, for one, would have welcomed this alternative in late July 2007, when I was losing hope of being accepted anywhere, and was considering making a career of my summer job at the Maple Leaf Foods chicken slaughterhouse. Had I known then what I know now, my application might have looked very different:
- graduated magna cum laude from the Bill Clinton President School (TM)
- holds two simultaneous parliamentary seats, for Calgary Southwest and Laurier Sainte-Marie
- in 2005, Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, P.C. called me “the son [she] never had”
- has two thousand Facebook friends
- prepared to bequeath a substantial personal fortune to the first law school to accept
- Nobel Prize nominee, 2007, for brokering landmark peace agreement between scissors and rock
- autobiography The Audacity of Hope was on the New York Times Bestseller list for thirty weeks
- middle name is “Osgoode Hall Law School”
- can read minds
Tip: Don’t Use Fake Degree to Apply to Law School
Okay all you eager undergrads who read our site faithfully, here is the best tip we could ever give you regarding your law school applications.
Do not, under any circumstances, try to use a fake degree to apply to law school. Chances are it will catch up with you eventually.
Quami Frederick made it all the way to her third year in Osgoode Hall before the Toronto Star found her out. She was even scheduled to article at Wilboer Dellelce next year, the firm that has no billable hours, their own building, and a gym inside the office.
She had applied to Osgoode with a B.Sc. in Business Administration from St. George’s University in Grenada. The university exists, her degree does not.
She was one of the 290 students accepted from the 2,500 that applied that year. But when your degree is fake, grade inflation probably isn’t a major issue.
Fredrick is one of many people The Star uncovered as using a degree from a diploma mill, where a fake degree is forged from a real university, or an entirely fake university is created. (No Steyn, that’s not an option for you either)
Chances are Fredrick won’t be able to finish her law degree this year given her admission was premised on a false academic background. She also probably fails to meet the values expressed on her firm’s website,
Our firm’s greatest strengths are its people and the environment of care and mutual respect that they have created for one another. It goes without saying that to be a success in the Bay Street legal world, you must possess intelligence, integrity, dedication, some common sense and you must work very hard.
The upside is that Wildeboer Dellelce probably has an opening right now if you’re your third year and looking for a place to article in Toronto.
Try contacting Kevin Fritz at 416 361 2933 or James Brown at 416 361 2934.
