First year removed from campus for ‘falsified’ application i

Yale rescinded the admission of a Davenport College first year after administrators concluded that she included falsehoods in her college application, according to a Yale College spokesperson.

The student was escorted out of Lanman-Wright Hall by a Yale Police Department officer and Davenport Head of College Anjelica Gonzalez on Friday afternoon, one of her suitemates told the News.

The Yale College spokesperson, Paul McKinley, wrote in statements to the News that the student “submitted falsified information” and “misrepresented themselves” in their application.

“Yale receives thousands of admissions applications each year and the process relies on the honesty of the applicants,” McKinley wrote.

He did not elaborate or respond to the News’ question about how the University discovered the misrepresentations more than a month after first years arrived on campus. The nature of the removed student’s misrepresentations were unknown.

Davenport Dean Adam Ployd called the student Katherina Lynn in an email to her remaining suitemates obtained by the News. 

On move-in day last month, Lynn arrived unaccompanied with only one suitcase, according to Sara Bashker ’29, a suitemate who was present at the time.

“She seemed a bit quiet and reserved at the beginning,” Bashker said.

Lynn initially said she was from North Dakota. On the Yale Face Book, where Lynn remained listed on Sunday night, her address corresponds to that of a hotel in the small town of Tioga, N.D.

Bashker said that at different points during her time at Yale, Lynn also mentioned residing in California, China and Canada.

Bashker recounted returning from orientation programs and gathering with the rest of her suitemates to discuss their first-year experiences so far. While Bashker and her other suitemates talked about their crushes and romantic interests, Lynn said she had a boyfriend in his 30s who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, Bashker said.

Bashker recalled that Lynn said she was in a “BDSM relationship” in which she played a dominant role over the man. Bashker estimated that Lynn was on the phone with her partner for three to four hours a day at Yale.

Reached by phone, Lynn declined to comment for this article. The other two suitemates declined to be interviewed.

Lynn told Bashker that she simultaneously sought out other potential sexual partners through the website FetLife. She told the group that she was going to bring a middle-aged man she met on the website to the suite, Bashker said.

To Bashker’s knowledge, Lynn never brought to the suite a man with whom she had sexual relations.

Bashker said she was in the middle of folding her laundry on Friday afternoon when the police officer and Gonzalez, the head of college, came to the suite. The two told Lynn to pack her belongings, Bashker said, and the officer watched Lynn pack.

Gonzalez, before exiting, asked Bashker and her roommate if they were all right and offered Yale College Community Care, or YC3, mental health resources.

Later on Friday, Ployd, the Davenport dean, wrote to the remaining members of the suite that Lynn “withdrew from Yale College” and “will not be returning.”

Gonzalez and Ployd did not respond to the News’ requests for comment. Yale Police Chief Anthony Campbell ’95 DIV ’09 declined to comment and referred the News to McKinley’s statement.

Abdel Abdu ’29, who also lives in Lanman-Wright, or L-Dub, said he watched from outside the residential building as Lynn was escorted out.

Marco Getchell ’29, a member of the same FroCo group as Lynn, recounted Lynn seeming relatively nice, quiet and reserved in their conversation together.

“This was shocking to me,” Getchell said. “From an outsider’s view, this was completely unexpected.”

This school year, Lanman-Wright Hall houses first years in Grace Hopper College as well as Davenport.

 

First year removed from campus for ‘falsified’ application information - Yale Daily News