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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sure the kids will get to stay.

They didn't do anything illegal.[/quote]

They submitted false college applications. Listing sports they didn't play.[/quote]

Are college applications sworn statements, made out under penalty of perjury?[/quote]

:shock:

Have you ever applied to college? When you submit your application you literally sign a document stating that your statement and the history of your actions you submitted are truthful.

Those kids are gone and they better hope the colleges/universities d[b]on't sue them for false impersonation.[/b] The negative publicity alone is costing them funding.[/quote]

Right, and lying on a college applications is certainly grounds for dismissal from the college.  But I think PP was asking whether it is also illegal.  What is the civil or criminal statute that could be used to prosecute a kid who lied on the app?[/quote]

Snicker.  Quite a legal mind we have here.  [/quote]

Potentially larceny (of scholarship) and forgery, if this example is any guide. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/education/10yale.html

Lead paragraph: "To Yale admissions officials, Akash Maharaj was an appealing prospect: He had earned straight A’s at Columbia University. Now he wanted to transfer. Yale not only admitted him; it gave him a $32,000 scholarship as well. Since then, however, [b]much of his application information has turned out to be false[/b], Yale said, and [b]he is facing charges in Connecticut of larceny and forgery[/b]. According to an affidavit from Yale, although he attended Columbia, the straight A’s were bogus, as was a Columbia recommendation and even one Columbia transcript. And before Columbia, he had attended New York University."
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