Anonymous wrote:These cases highlight how flawed Ivy admission process is and how falsely they claim it to be so detailed and fair.

Every year they reject qualified honest applicants and make them feel like failure while admitting people who game the system with money, connections, exaggeration and falsehood.

Yes, unfortunately we have seen this time and again. A parent sets up and runs a nonprofit that collects toys for kids with cancer and then when the kid is in high school, the narrative of its origins suddenly changes and says that the kid is the founder of the nonprofit.

The guy who is the founder of Command Education - he also got into Yale after setting up an "anti-bullying" nonprofit that he promptly stop caring about once he got into Yale. Now he is out scamming anxious parents in Manhattan who are willing to pay him $$ so that he does not counsel other kids at their kid's elite private school.

These cases highlight how flawed Ivy admission process is and how falsely they claim it to be so detailed and fair.

Every year they reject qualified honest applicants and make them feel like failure while admitting people who game the system with money, connections, exaggeration and falsehood.

Anonymous wrote:apparently, she lied about citizenship.
She was a Chinese national and indicated she was a US citizen on app.
There may be legitimate espionage concerns.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1nwe3f5/reminder_dont_falsify_info_on_your_applications/

Yes, sounds like she was a sleeper agent…

😉

Anonymous wrote:apparently, she lied about citizenship.
She was a Chinese national and indicated she was a US citizen on app.
There may be legitimate espionage concerns.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1nwe3f5/reminder_dont_falsify_info_on_your_applications/

If so, she was really bad at her job. Managed to draw negative attention and get booted quickly. Total fail. 🤦‍♀️

apparently, she lied about citizenship.
She was a Chinese national and indicated she was a US citizen on app.
There may be legitimate espionage concerns.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1nwe3f5/reminder_dont_falsify_info_on_your_applications/

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Anonymous wrote:In 2024 ND had a grand total of 58 students who took the SAT. . . . There is a lot less competition for an applicant who is (or claims to be) from ND than there is for the thousands from the DMV, NY, CA . . .

7000 took ACT

7058 students took college entrance exams in an entire state in one year?

Maybe you’ve heard, population is not equally divided among the states? There’s only about 8000 high school seniors in North Dakota. 7000 test-takers is pretty good.

"I know that one of the authors on this piece was this first year’s suitemate, which is a pretty significant detail to omit."

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Anonymous wrote:In 2024 ND had a grand total of 58 students who took the SAT. . . . There is a lot less competition for an applicant who is (or claims to be) from ND than there is for the thousands from the DMV, NY, CA . . .

7000 took ACT

7058 students took college entrance exams in an entire state in one year?

Anonymous wrote:It finally made reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/yale/comments/1nrb08r/first_year_removed_from_campus_for_falsified/

"She wasn’t 30 herself, but she was dating a 30 yr old and trying to wanted him to stay in their dorm which made her roommate scared, but she herself was 19. The fake id thing was bc her roommate found her real id which had a diff name and birthday than what she was telling the school and everyone here"

Speculation about spying on US????

Someone spying wouldn’t be doing weird shit to be caught.

So you can’t have an older boyfriend?
Or a fake ID?

she wasn't a spy and every kid in that dorm as a fake.

but having the guy stay over was an issue

It finally made reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/yale/comments/1nrb08r/first_year_removed_from_campus_for_falsified/

"She wasn’t 30 herself, but she was dating a 30 yr old and trying to wanted him to stay in their dorm which made her roommate scared, but she herself was 19. The fake id thing was bc her roommate found her real id which had a diff name and birthday than what she was telling the school and everyone here"

Speculation about spying on US????

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Anonymous wrote:according to my kid, the sexual stuff was all talk. but there was a lot of weird day to day, non-sexual behavior that was "off".

like what?

I heard she routinely ended sentences with prepositions.

What are you being so pedantic for?

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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.

namely, she actually was a foster kid.

Penn decided to focus on the fact that she technically was not first-gen, had spent most of her youth in a wealthy household and had attended private school. As if the serious abuse that resulted in her placement in foster care was irrelevant! She had no guidance from family and had no resources at the time of application. Penn sucks.

She actually was first gen according the definition listed on Penn's website, which they only changed after they kicked her out.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale is the HYPSM member most on the way down in reputation. Mostly due to poor STEM but they also pander to DEI and athletic candidates whose post college outcomes are poor.

Sounds like you stopped paying attention about 10 years ago, Yale's strength has always been humanities/social sciences but they are pouring gobs of money into STEM with gorgeous new facilities, tons of research opportunities etc. STEM kids are doing just fine there.

Links?

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2023/02/17/new-stem-recruitment-program-seeks-to-increase-yield-of-stem-matriculates/

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2023/02/26/inside-the-hahn-scholars-programs-push-to-recruit-top-stem-students/

The STEM investment figures are easy to google