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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually think this might be a troll thread, don't ask me why.[/quote]

The more I consider this entire thread, the more I am certain that this is a troll thread.  And here is why.

If this had actually happened, then the mother and her son -- while wanting to bring the issue to someone's attention -- would also want to do so without bringing unwanted attention to the son.   In other words, they would seek to do so as discreetly as possible.   So either the son would have spoken individually to a trusted teacher, advisor, or administrator, and then let them handle the situation with the young woman (without bringing him or his name into it as the source).  Or, alternatively (though I do not approve of this approach), the son would have simply sent in an anonymous note to the colleges, and no one would be the wiser as to who was the source.

Instead -- and this is why I now believe that this is certainly a troll thread (and an excellent one, I might add, just look at the number of revenue-generating views and posts it had achieved for DCUM) -- the original poster/mother comes onto DCUM and informs an entire local community (where someone is bound to know someone who knows some other person who, in turn, knows someone else) that: (a) her son is the source of the leak; and then identifies her son (b) as the person whose title, position, and duties the young woman assumed for herself.

The original poster/mother later adds that multiple classmates are now approaching her son about lies of this young woman -- suggesting that he has been discussing the matter openly with at least some classmates (and everyone knows that nothing you tell someone else, much less multiple people in high school, will be kept a secret).  Any young man who was smart enough to identify that, and how, a classmate's social media postings can hurt them; would also be smart enough to know that he should be discreet in "outing" that person.  In this case, the original poster/mother and her supposed son have been anything but discreet, in fact they have left an entire social media trail as to their identities, motivations, and thought process.

Finally, throwing us indignant followers of this thread that tasty morsel of "Stanford" just pushed it over the edge into trolling territory for me.  How much angrier and more indignant would the other posters be if the fictional young woman were to have used her dastardly lies to obtain admission to one of the country's finest, and most desired universities, then if she had exaggerated her resume for Cal State, Chico.   [/quote]

No offense meant to Cal State, Chico.[/quote]

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