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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anon letter by snail mail to AD. let the school decide. Leave your son's name out of it. Honor code is a BIG deal in some schools. probably won't result in much -- but she should not have lied. some other, more deserving student may have been rejected in favor of this girls deceit. Ignore the haters and do what is right. waitlist movement.[/quote]

Plus I think it will remind the school to fact check and not take what kids put on their apps as the gospel truth. This is no different than how future employers would treat the situation.[/quote]

Again, this approach is not to be taken lightly as it may result in the young lady having her admission rescinded at some point when she either did not apply to other colleges (if it was EA), or when she has already turned down her other options (if the matter is not resolved until summer).

In considering motivation, a question for OP, does your son intend to contact each and every university to which the young woman applied, or only that university to which the young woman was admitted, but he was denied?

It really depends on the question, does your son seek rehabilitation of the young woman (which may be achieved by having a school college counselor speak to her directly about the lie, and have her correct it and apologize), or does your son also seek to impose some sort of retribution (because reporting this lie anonymously to the university may indeed result in very serious ).[/quote]

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