What happened at Yale?

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

If a student is truly homeless, I'm sure there will be lots of places in the application for them to discuss these challenges. Even if they don't disclose it themselves, the counselor letter or LORs or even the additional info section will count. No one is trying to say that homeless people don't deserve a college education - they are just pointing out Yale's last of skepticism/due diligence. No 18 year old is into being a dominant with a 30 year old man in the SF - there were probably lots of red flags in her application.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

omg what....that's a turn. holy shit.

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Would she turn around and try to apply to another college?

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

Penn. It was a very complicated story though, and she was quite sympathetic in the end.

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You almost have to admire a 17/18 year old who would go to this length to attend a particular college, assuming it was their idea and not that of their parents. My own kids would never care this much.

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Anonymous wrote:You almost have to admire a 17/18 year old who would go to this length to attend a particular college, assuming it was their idea and not that of their parents. My own kids would never care this much.

Seriously doubt she is 17/18.

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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.

Agree. I have a real Chinese-American friend whose family owns modest chain hotels in Utah. She went to a top MBA program.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Read between the lines in the Yale article.

1. She was escorted off campus with no warning, immediate effect, publicly.

2. Her roommates were offered counseling resource.

This is not just someone who lied about her state or a few other details in her application. Or faked her essays or transcript. She was involved in some kind of prostitution situation and pretty nasty ones, and Yale got wind of it and removed her ASAP.

I will say there is a book waiting to be written about this young woman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Read between the lines in the Yale article.

1. She was escorted off campus with no warning, immediate effect, publicly.

2. Her roommates were offered counseling resource.

This is not just someone who lied about her state or a few other details in her application. Or faked her essays or transcript. She was involved in some kind of prostitution situation and pretty nasty ones, and Yale got wind of it and removed her ASAP.

I will say there is a book waiting to be written about this young woman.

I do think you are right. Something untoward?
Weird, nothing online or Reddit? Any Yale parents on? Ask your kids.
Maybe the roommates had to sign an NDA?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If the Yale admissions office can fall for a Chinese BDSM dominatrix LARPing as a ranch girl from North Dakota, what other ridiculous application lies have they bought?

And why take this process seriously at all, when objective criteria are at the out window and everyone is telling absurd stories just to attend a Bucknell safety school in one of the worst urban dumps in America?

Thank you so much for this wonderful sentence.

I love it also.

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Counseling because roommates are traumatized to discover what actually matters during the admissions process.

[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.

show me a school that checks addresses

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

show me a school that checks addresses

This whole thing is weird. I feel like she was dealing drugs, soliciting, filming porn etc in the suite?
I googled the name and north dakota. nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Penn. It was a very complicated story though, and she was quite sympathetic in the end.

well, who knows what we might think about this women in the end. ya never know!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Read between the lines in the Yale article.

1. She was escorted off campus with no warning, immediate effect, publicly.

2. Her roommates were offered counseling resource.

This is not just someone who lied about her state or a few other details in her application. Or faked her essays or transcript. She was involved in some kind of prostitution situation and pretty nasty ones, and Yale got wind of it and removed her ASAP.

I will say there is a book waiting to be written about this young woman.

Nah, I think they just found out about her and that was that. She wasn't pimping anyone out. She was acting weird enough that the suite mates talked to their RA and it went to Davenport head who looked at file, took it to the higher ups, etc. Good on Yale for not hushing it up. She was escorting out in front of all. Pretty sure the suite mates won't need counseling, happy to have the room back and an empty bunk

I have a freshman at Yale. For added hilarity, she was in same entry (door) as the Housewives daughter. Sorry, dont know her name or Housewifes lingo