According to an article in “Inside Higher Ed” magazine, a University of Rochester freshman was asked to leave the school earlier this semester because she claimed to be entirely home schools — but actually had attended a private high school for three years.
The University isn’t naming the student or the school involved. It says she applied using a transcript service for the home schooled. An official transcript and letters of recommendation led to the student being admitted. But after she arrived on campus, she posted about it on social media. Someone at the private high school she’d attended saw the post and notified the university that something didn’t add up.
The University of Rochester says the student made a “strenuous effort” to say she didn’t attend the school she was enrolled in and to portray herself as entirely home-schooled. The school says it revoked the young woman’s admission on grounds of fraud.