What happened at Yale?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, this just shows rural state DEI is still a thing. They'll do anything so they can say they have students from all 50 states, x territories and y countries.

It's truly shocking tbh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First thing I noticed was that she changed her Chinese last name to Lynn. Probably lied about her race too. Probably that’s why she is kicked out

I had the same thought, she might have changed her name from Lin to Lynn. Or something more egregious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First thing I noticed was that she changed her Chinese last name to Lynn. Probably lied about her race too. Probably that’s why she is kicked out

I had the same thought, she might have changed her name from Lin to Lynn. Or something more egregious.

There are a lot of "hints" in the story:

Lin --- Lynn
ND --- China; Canada; California
HS diploma fabrication?
Age?

[Anonymous]

Looks like the student was practicing "if you want HYP, move to Wyoming" that were preached by some private college counselors.

Can't imagine geographical diversity will be barred by current administration since it benefits the red states (sure, lots of folks there don't care about attending college). Furthermore, the number is tiny. For example, according to College Factual, among Harvard's 1400+ freshmen, there are only 2 from AK, AR, SD, and ID, 3 from MT and ND, and 4 from NE, MS, and WV. That's fewer than a Lacrosse roster at Harvard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First thing I noticed was that she changed her Chinese last name to Lynn. Probably lied about her race too. Probably that’s why she is kicked out

I had the same thought, she might have changed her name from Lin to Lynn. Or something more egregious.

There are a lot of "hints" in the story:

Lin --- Lynn
ND --- China; Canada; California
HS diploma fabrication?
Age?

I am guessing age absolutely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the student was practicing "if you want HYP, move to Wyoming" that were preached by some private college counselors.

Can't imagine geographical diversity will be barred by current administration since it benefits the red states (sure, lots of folks there don't care about attending college). Furthermore, the number is tiny. For example, according to College Factual, among Harvard's 1400+ freshmen, there are only 2 from AK, AR, SD, and ID, 3 from MT and ND, and 4 from NE, MS, and WV. That's fewer than a Lacrosse roster at Harvard.

True but the willingness to drop standards so low they couldn't detect a scammer using a hotel as an address does not speak highly of the quality of these admits. Yale still interviews you'd think they'd have a local reach out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the student was practicing "if you want HYP, move to Wyoming" that were preached by some private college counselors.

Can't imagine geographical diversity will be barred by current administration since it benefits the red states (sure, lots of folks there don't care about attending college). Furthermore, the number is tiny. For example, according to College Factual, among Harvard's 1400+ freshmen, there are only 2 from AK, AR, SD, and ID, 3 from MT and ND, and 4 from NE, MS, and WV. That's fewer than a Lacrosse roster at Harvard.

True but the willingness to drop standards so low they couldn't detect a scammer using a hotel as an address does not speak highly of the quality of these admits. Yale still interviews you'd think they'd have a local reach out.

Unless the LOR's were falsified, too? It's all very strange.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:anything on reddit?

Not that I’m seeing.

[Anonymous]

they couldn't detect a scammer using a hotel as an address

Lots of people have hotels as their actual address. It is not uncommon for a hotel in a small town to be owned by a family who lives in the hotel. In other cases, motels are franchises and the franchisee and his/her family operate the motel and live in it. (This is quite common for Indian-Americans.)

As a child, Ron Brown, the deceased former Secretary of Commerce, lived in a hotel in Harlem which his father managed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Brown

All I am saying is that the fact she listed a hotel as her home address isn't something that screams fraud.

[Anonymous]

I have a STEM Ph.D. friend from grad school who works at a rural national lab whose child is attending Harvard. 4.0/1570. Not "dropping standard so low," in fact not dropping at all. There are smart folks who got stuck in rural states because they like their research/teaching jobs. It's so hard to get tenure-track positions that many of them don't mind moving to South Dakota and the likes to live their faculty dreams. Their offsprings often times are as good as their parents and don't need crutches.

[Anonymous]

Wow, I kind of hoped for juicier details, not about the bedroom tastes, but about what credentials were faked and how.

This story is a lot better: https://www.yahoo.com/news/indian-student-deported-confessing-reddit-190447312.html

[Anonymous]

Didn’t someone get kicked out of HYP recently for faking that they were a foster kid? I think it was a woman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the student was practicing "if you want HYP, move to Wyoming" that were preached by some private college counselors.

Can't imagine geographical diversity will be barred by current administration since it benefits the red states (sure, lots of folks there don't care about attending college). Furthermore, the number is tiny. For example, according to College Factual, among Harvard's 1400+ freshmen, there are only 2 from AK, AR, SD, and ID, 3 from MT and ND, and 4 from NE, MS, and WV. That's fewer than a Lacrosse roster at Harvard.

True but the willingness to drop standards so low they couldn't detect a scammer using a hotel as an address does not speak highly of the quality of these admits. Yale still interviews you'd think they'd have a local reach out.

Maybe you do not realize that a lot of homeless children reside in hotel rooms all across the USA. There are at least two hotels on New York Avenue, NE that house scores of homeless families with children. Are those kids not allowed to attend college, even Yale, because their parents could not afford proper housing for them.

[Anonymous]

In 2024 ND had a grand total of 58 students who took the SAT. . . . There is a lot less competition for an applicant who is (or claims to be) from ND than there is for the thousands from the DMV, NY, CA . . .

[Anonymous]

If she lied that badly on her application, why all the banter about boyfriends and kinks? You'd think she would lay as low as possible (no pun intended). It makes me wonder if her sexual preferences were a source of income. Maybe she was attempting to pimp out her roommates. That would explain why they were asked about their wellbeing.