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[quote=Anonymous][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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"Akash Maharaj will serve five years of probation for stealing some $31,000 in Yale financial aid, but he will avoid jail time if he pays the University back in full.

The former Morse College junior, who was kicked out of Yale in the summer of 2007 and arrested the following September for forging his application for admission, was sentenced Friday in New Haven Superior Court following a plea bargain last May."

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2008/09/05/maharaj-sentenced-to-probation-for-defrauding-yale-judge-orders-full-restitution/

[b]So like I said, those kids will be expelled. If their 'positions' on the atheletic teams afforded them any special priviledges, they will repay them and the courts will probably just wave them off. Their parents on the other hand?  :) [/b][/quote]

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