Recently, a Chinese student at Yale University in the United States was withdrawn from admission due to fake identity and application materials, and was escorted by the school police to leave the campus. The student who had tried to erase the real past, to create a "city girl" person, eventually due to the omission of the details of a baggage card, let the years of carefully planned scam completely disappear.

According to Airmail News, the female student whose pseudonym is "Katherina Lynn" is really a child of a Chinese family in California. She hated the names given by her parents since childhood, and was often bullied by the campus because of her name, so she gradually came up with the idea of "identity reshaping". When she was a sophomore in high school, she thought that the combination of "Asian students + ordinary grades" could not knock on the door of Yale in the fierce competition, so she began to plan her identity fraud plan.

In order to create a "more competitive" personality, Lynn invented a new background: in her Yale application form, she claimed that she was born and raised in Tioga, North Dakota-a town of only 2000 people. In order to make the lies come true, she taught herself Adobe software from scratch, forged transcripts, wrote recommendation letters in the name of others, and even studied college review loopholes to circumvent verification.

At the same time, Lynne, in order to completely erase her true identity, did not attend the high school graduation ceremony and had begged the school not to read her real name. In the end, she changed her name to "Catherine Lynne" through legal procedures, and filed a new application in the fall of 2024, successfully obtaining Yale's admission notice.

In August 2025, Lynne arrived at Yale with a suitcase and a backpack, and was assigned to the four-person dormitory in the old campus Lyman-Right Hall. However, her campus life had just begun, and her ¡°perfect person¡± had a crack. The dormitory companions placed a colored sticker on the dormitory door, marking everyone¡¯s name and home, where her sticker read ¡°Catherine Lynne ¨C Town of Tioca, North Dakota.¡± This caused her to panic instantly, originally scheduled to go to school lying ¡°from California¡± in order to respond to possible details, but she forgot to tear the sticker after a long flight, which was just a sticker I should have removed, but the brain was blank at the time.

However, as the situation developed, more flaws surfaced. Her roommate, Sara Bashker, found that Lynn's room often smelled musty and stored stale food. What made her even more suspicious was that Lynn's statement of "previous address" was capricious and had mentioned that she had lived in California, China and Canada. In addition, other students also noticed that Lynn talked on the phone with an elderly man in California for three to four hours a day. The special nature of this relationship further deepened the roommate's suspicion.

On September 16, roommate Sarah Baschk found a luggage tag on Lynn's desk with a name she had never heard-neither "Katharina Lynn" nor any name that had ever been mentioned. She immediately took a photo of the luggage tag and sent it to the freshman counselor.

That night, while Lynne was bathing, Bashke quietly looked at Lynne¡¯s backpack and found a passport for boarding, the name on the passport, the address bar clearly marked somewhere in California ¨C which was in complete contradiction to the person ¡°from the town of North Dakota,¡± and Sarah handed the documents over to the dean of the academy.

A few days later, Lynne was summoned to the director¡¯s office and told that admission qualifications had been officially revoked. Baszk recalled that when the school police and the head of the academy came to the dormitory and watched Lynne Moore pack his luggage, ¡°the whole journey was quiet and she didn¡¯t have too many excuses.¡±

In an interview with the media, Yale University spokesman said: ¡°Yale receives thousands of applications every year, and the entire admissions process depends on the candidate¡¯s honesty and accuracy of information. When the school finds students misleading their identity in the application or submitting false materials, it will revoke their admissions under the admissions policy.¡±

Source: Janko Evening News / Purple Bull News Interview Journalist Marbin