Anonymous
Post 10/06/2025 12:44     Subject: What happened at Yale?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:All of this makes be appreciate the optional video in the Brown app. My son had some (real) achievements that we worried sounded sort of made up, but the video allowed him to show him doing what he said he did. I mean, I'm sure wealthy parents find ways to manipulate the video to some extent. But this lets kids give video proof of doing thing things they claim to have done, in the spaces they claimed they happened, with the attendance they claim showed up. A lot of the fake charities couldn't be backed up with video showing them out doing real work with lots of other people.



The fake charities would be easy to verify if schools required reports on where the income came from (many are just one big check from the parents) and how many people they helped.

I know a kid who got into Yale and their non-profit helped literally 2 kids over a 15 year span.


So the claim was that this kid started a nonprofit when they were 3?
Anonymous
Post 10/06/2025 12:43     Subject: What happened at Yale?
Con’t: and another kid who “raised the most ever for xyz charity” because her parents cut a $40,000 check.
Anonymous
Post 10/06/2025 12:42     Subject: What happened at Yale?
Anonymous wrote:All of this makes be appreciate the optional video in the Brown app. My son had some (real) achievements that we worried sounded sort of made up, but the video allowed him to show him doing what he said he did. I mean, I'm sure wealthy parents find ways to manipulate the video to some extent. But this lets kids give video proof of doing thing things they claim to have done, in the spaces they claimed they happened, with the attendance they claim showed up. A lot of the fake charities couldn't be backed up with video showing them out doing real work with lots of other people.



The fake charities would be easy to verify if schools required reports on where the income came from (many are just one big check from the parents) and how many people they helped.

I know a kid who got into Yale and their non-profit helped literally 2 kids over a 15 year span.
Anonymous
Post 10/06/2025 11:11     Subject: What happened at Yale?
Anonymous wrote:All of this makes be appreciate the optional video in the Brown app. My son had some (real) achievements that we worried sounded sort of made up, but the video allowed him to show him doing what he said he did. I mean, I'm sure wealthy parents find ways to manipulate the video to some extent. But this lets kids give video proof of doing thing things they claim to have done, in the spaces they claimed they happened, with the attendance they claim showed up. A lot of the fake charities couldn't be backed up with video showing them out doing real work with lots of other people.


I guess I don't see why you couldn't fake a lot of things on a short video, even if you weren't wealthy.
Anonymous
Post 10/06/2025 11:00     Subject: What happened at Yale?
All of this makes be appreciate the optional video in the Brown app. My son had some (real) achievements that we worried sounded sort of made up, but the video allowed him to show him doing what he said he did. I mean, I'm sure wealthy parents find ways to manipulate the video to some extent. But this lets kids give video proof of doing thing things they claim to have done, in the spaces they claimed they happened, with the attendance they claim showed up. A lot of the fake charities couldn't be backed up with video showing them out doing real work with lots of other people.
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 20:59     Subject: What happened at Yale?
Anonymous wrote:Every one of these hyper competitive schools needs to do multiple interviews and character tests on applicants because they attract the sociopaths then arm them with these degrees. They do just as much harm as good.


100%. Mine attend T10s unhooked and there have been a small number of obvious repetitive cheaters. They cant hang with the other kids and get destroyed on the in-person long answer exam curves, can't add intelligently to seminars, can't get good faculty recs. It catches up with most of them in one way or another. UVA has students who likely got in bc they cheated btw not unique to elite schools. It is a real shame spots go to these kids.
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 20:50     Subject: What happened at Yale?
Roommate did the school and other students a great service by spotting a psychopath and doing the detective work needed to get her out of there. Who knows what a psycho would do. That wasn’t a safe situation for the other students around her.
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 20:06     Subject: What happened at Yale?
Anonymous wrote:Every one of these hyper competitive schools needs to do multiple interviews and character tests on applicants because they attract the sociopaths then arm them with these degrees. They do just as much harm as good.


Agree.

And the Native American element here is also prob a red flag.
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 20:05     Subject: What happened at Yale?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Better discussion here:

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/yale-may-ramp-up-fact-checking-after-removing-first-year-student/3695049


Not really better. All the same info as DCUM. There were earlier DCUM threads on this.


More detail there. Here's its all weird trolls focused on weird a** stuff.


I read it. For comparison. Every angle in there is also in one of the DCUM threads. Get AI to do a comparison.


Why AI? It's just tone. It's people like you.
AI? lol
WTF


My thought was - if after I read it and mentioned it covered the exact same content that was on DCUM in a few threads - and you didn't believe me, maybe you'd believe a synthesizing LLM bot.

All details and links referred to on College Confidential made it to DCUM. College Confidential has a crap user interface. I thought I'd spare people from running over there to find fresh info...because there wasn't any there 100 posts in.

But suit yourself, readers.


Np:
Just went over to college confidential. Why all the discussion about bathing/showering and this suspicious person? What did that have to do with anything? Where did that Intel come from?
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 19:57     Subject: What happened at Yale?
Every one of these hyper competitive schools needs to do multiple interviews and character tests on applicants because they attract the sociopaths then arm them with these degrees. They do just as much harm as good.
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 19:53     Subject: What happened at Yale?
According to the article linked previously, her plan going forward is to apply somewhere new.
Gotta admire her commitment here. I look forward to her next ruse.
Btw the Netflix series practically writes itself.
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 19:50     Subject: What happened at Yale?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Better discussion here:

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/yale-may-ramp-up-fact-checking-after-removing-first-year-student/3695049


Not really better. All the same info as DCUM. There were earlier DCUM threads on this.


More detail there. Here's its all weird trolls focused on weird a** stuff.


I read it. For comparison. Every angle in there is also in one of the DCUM threads. Get AI to do a comparison.


Why AI? It's just tone. It's people like you.
AI? lol
WTF


My thought was - if after I read it and mentioned it covered the exact same content that was on DCUM in a few threads - and you didn't believe me, maybe you'd believe a synthesizing LLM bot.

All details and links referred to on College Confidential made it to DCUM. College Confidential has a crap user interface. I thought I'd spare people from running over there to find fresh info...because there wasn't any there 100 posts in.

But suit yourself, readers.
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 18:39     Subject: What happened at Yale?
Read the CC thread. I know of a couple of cases where kids have lied and have been admitted — interestingly both to MIT! But they had that director of admissions (or similar tole) who lied about her own degree and worked there for years.

An acquaintance’s son placed at our state’s science fair. When we met recently the boy was unable to tell me what he did or why he did it. I think his Dad did it as it’s the same field of work. While I’ve told him about the Yale story, he said he’d be honest in his Yale app. I was thinking “but not the rest”. Some kids!
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 17:46     Subject: What happened at Yale?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Better discussion here:

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/yale-may-ramp-up-fact-checking-after-removing-first-year-student/3695049


Not really better. All the same info as DCUM. There were earlier DCUM threads on this.


More detail there. Here's its all weird trolls focused on weird a** stuff.


I read it. For comparison. Every angle in there is also in one of the DCUM threads. Get AI to do a comparison.


Why AI? It's just tone. It's people like you.
AI? lol
WTF
Anonymous
Post 10/05/2025 17:23     Subject: What happened at Yale?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It is INSANE that this slipped past Yale admissions. Their AO for North Dakota is some Yale kid , class of 2024. Basically green with no experience. And the girl took a gap year when she didn't get into an Ivy the first time around? There are so many holes in this story - think of all the NYC, DC/VA kids who KILL themselves to get in, meanwhile this grifter forges a bunch of paperwork and is submitted with no issues? Why wouldn't the AO have ties to North Dakota high schools and vet the minimal number of ND applicants to Yale? Talk to the guidance counselors?

The roommate is also giving narc, but that's a different issue.


Who cares if the roommate was a narc, she was right. And Katherina couldn’t stop her lying shenanigans and sounded like a nightmare roommate the entire time she was there (talking on the phone for hours in the room to her boyfriend, being messy and unhygienic, leaving trash and rotten food in the room, claiming to want to bring a cage into the room for her BSDM boyfriend to be in when he comes to visit, like WTF). She couldn’t just have gone along with average college freshman and acted quasi normal. If your own kid called you and told you she had a roommate line this you absolutely would be telling her to report it.


+1 Crazy to pretend otherwise. Imagine you drop your 18 year old off and they start to think their roommate isn't who she says she is?