Matthew Scheidt, Jr., Lied About His Age to Get Into Medicine

Matthew Scheidt, Jr. told schoolmates that his father was a police officer and his mother was a nurse. In reality, Matthew's parents divorced when he was five years old. When he lived in a Florida trailer park where he watched his mom get arrested for possession of crystal meth, Matthew Scheidt was forced to grow up too quickly. At age 17, MatthewScheidt was living on his own, but he was taking high school classes online and working a part-time summer job as a file clerk at a surgical company in Kissimmee. For the next two weeks, a 17-year-old boy wearing scrubs, a pager, and a st