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Katherina Lynn Faked Her Way Into Yale. Then She Got Expelled
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Anonymous
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Such a crazy story...
https://archive.is/CuDhW |
Anonymous
| Sounds smart though but not in a good way |
Anonymous
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If she had just been a pleasant roommate she would have gotten away with it just fine. Instead she was a weirdo with mildew clothes talking about her BDSM relationship all the time.
She’s definitely going to be successful- look at how she bounces back immediately and says she’s just going to change her name again and start over. She’s probably going to get into an Ivy League next year and not get caught again. |
Anonymous
| Link doesnt work |
Anonymous
| The scary thing about this story is how often it probably happens particularly with international students in places it is harder to verify the information. Several students have been caught majorly falsifying information. One student got caught because of what they posted on Reddit. |
Anonymous
| Why doesn't the link work? |
Anonymous
| I just used the link. It works. |
Anonymous
| I wonder if there is a business opportunity here to open a boarding school in North Dakota. |
Anonymous
| I'm not clicking on your sketchy link. If you can provide a legit link, I'd love to read the story. |
Anonymous
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It's a puck article. the link works.
Convinced that her chances of success as an Asian kid with average grades were less than ideal in the ultra-competitive Bay Area—for good reason, given the proven anti-Asian bias in Ivy admissions processes, which culminated in a Supreme Court lawsuit penalizing Harvard in 2023—Lynn swapped studying for identity hunting. After careful research, she landed on the 2,000-person town of Tioga, North Dakota, as her escape ticket. |
Anonymous
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The fall before she graduated, Lynn had applied to another Ivy League university with some fabricated application components, including her made-up name, though she kept her California address. As she expected, she was rejected, solidifying her plan to pretend to be from North Dakota the next time around.
In the fall of 2024, a few months into her post-high-school life studying resources such as Ivy League–admissions podcasts while living at her parents’ house, she applied to Yale as Katherina Lynn from Tioga, North Dakota. “I wrote about how being from a small town would shape who I am,” she says. |
Anonymous
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Honestly, this sounds like the makings of a good Netflix movie.
Lynn was wrong, but her roommate was also wrong for digging through her personal belongings and purse. I also find it weird that the roommate kept asking where she was from. There has to be more to the story she's concealing. |
Anonymous
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Yes, Lynn was wrong, and the roommate sounds unpleasant.
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Anonymous
Not op but there’s nothing sketchy about an archive link. It’s so you have free access 🤦 |
Anonymous
| How did she get away with the fake high school transcripts? |