Anderton wasn't. In fact, Anderton, an economics major who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005, was not enrolled at Drexel.
Kirsch told her study group that her boyfriend had a doctorate in economics and that he could help out with ideas for the group project, the classmate said.
His education paid off for Kirsch, the Bonnie in the so-called "Bonnie and Clyde" case.
When the course professor announced that he'd be absent from class for the second midterm on Nov. 15 - and that two other Drexel professors would proctor the exam - the couple altered their routine, according to one student in the class.
On test day, Anderton, now 25, showed up and took the test, which had about eight multiple- choice questions and seven to eight open-ended queries, the student said. Kirsch, 22, was absent.
The students who saw Anderton that day figured Kirsch had told another one of her fibs because it "doesn't make sense that he'd have a doctorate and be taking the class," the classmate said.
"The boyfriend was there, we took the test. You go up, hand in the test, they started a pile, and you put them in a pile," said the student. "I don't think the [proctors] checked names or anything."
Students were required to put a name and student identification number on the front page of the test, the source said.
When the news hit on Dec. 3 that the pair had been arrested for their alleged involvement in an identity-theft scam from their two-bedroom Center City apartment, some of the students realized that their "classmate" was an Ivy League graduate.
The next day, another classmate asked the professor, "Do you know that the boyfriend sat in our class every day?" that classmate told the Daily News. The professor didn't, she said.
"He was like, 'No,' " the classmate said.
