Factual Troubles

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/04/mackenzie-fierceton-rhodes-scholarship-university-of-pennsylvania

In Aviv's article, she examines the discrepancies between Mackenzie's medical records and accounts depicted in her college essay and personal statement for a scholarship. Allison Schreiber Lee, her mother's lawyer, points out two glaring ones: the facial disfigurement and the material of a feeding tube (11-12). Might one conclude that Mackenzie is blurring the lines between fact and fiction to augment both her scholarship and college applications? Argue why or why not.

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