Admissions office may ramp up fact checking after first-year removal

Yale College may alter its fact-checking processes for applicants during the 2025-26 admissions cycle, administrators said, in light of the recent removal of a first-year student who a Yale College spokesperson said included false information on her Yale application.

Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis said in a Sept. 22 interview with the News that the admissions office may strengthen its processes for verifying extracurricular activities and activity positions.

“We have a vetting process, and we may be ramping it up a little bit next year,” Lewis said. “We’ll probably do more of those calls next year.”

On Monday, Mark Dunn ’07, the director of outreach and recruitment for undergraduate admissions, and Jeremiah Quinlan ’03, the dean of undergraduate admissions at Yale, confirmed Lewis’ statement in an email to the News.

Earlier this month, Yale rescinded the admission of a Davenport College first-year after determining that she submitted falsified information on her application. In a move that sent shockwaves across campus, the student was escorted from her Old Campus dorm on Sept. 19 by Head of College Anjelica Gonzalez and an armed police officer.

Jordan Sahly ’24, an undergraduate admissions officer covering North Dakota, where the removed student’s profile on the Yale Face Book said she was from, declined to comment on the student’s admission or Yale’s undergraduate admission process, instead directing the News’ questions to Quinlan.

Quinlan did not answer the News’ questions about what information the student falsified on her application, how the fabrication was discovered or how the admissions office will strengthen its verification processes for applications.

Davenport first years live in Lanman-Wright Hall.

Olivia Woo contributed reporting.