Serious Question

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>Okay so one of my closest friends claimed she got into Yale for the Class of 2013, but none of us have seen the acceptance letter until today. </p>

<p>But I’m confused on a few things.</p>

<p>Does the acceptance letter have two watermarks? One in the top right corner says Southworth, apparently it’s a paper company and then in the middle going down is a big Yale watermark. Are these legit?</p>

<p>Also, it’s dated November 27, 2008. Is it possible to find out that early? I thought they were all released in mid-December.</p>

<p>Thanks so much</p>

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<p>Lawl, she’s lying. It’s sad that she went through that much effort.</p>

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<p>I told you she would do this!</p>

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<p>Can you explain?</p>

<p>Oh and the watermark is the Yale seal.</p>

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<p>Well I think the date kind of gives it away … SCEA decisions come out mid-December, RD decisions come out April 1.</p>

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<p>But what about the watermarks? Are they legit?</p>

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<p>You now know that the date makes it fake, why do you ask about the watermarks?</p>

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<p>She must be lying.</p>

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<p>Just curious.</p>

<p>I’ve always known the date doesn’t make sense hence why I posted that in first post.
I just like to have as many things as possible to prove it’s fake.</p>

<p>Just making sure there isn’t a way she could find out that early…</p>

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<p>Southworth is a commercially available stationery – you can go right now to Office Depot and pick up a box for resumes, etc.</p>

<p>While it’s possible that Yale would inform its EA applicants using this paper as their source, the date makes it skeptical.</p>

<p>Why don’t you go here and just punch in her name?
[Search</a> Yale University](<a href=“Search | Yale University”>Directories | Yale University)</p>

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<p>If you really want to know just search for her name on the student directory. As for watermarks, the only one I see is one that says “Yale” in the middle of the page.</p>

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<p>So you so no Southworth above it?</p>

<p><em>just clarifying</em></p>

<p>And why would I check the directory? She goes to a different university. She just claims she got into Yale, but turned it down.</p>

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<p>Can you still search for her even though she probably denied it back in 2009? She goes to U of Illinois now fyi.</p>

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<p>Well if she doesn’t even go to Yale (or claim to go to Yale) then why does any of this investigating matter? If she wants to lie about where she was accepted then let her. It’s just sad really. I mean who cares where you got into, it’s where you’re going that really matters.</p>

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<p>

Because, as I understand it, she is claiming only that she was admitted to Yale, not that she attends.</p>

<p>Yale does send out “likely letters” during SCEA which come out a few weeks earlier than the acceptance letters. These usually go to recruited athletes, but not always. So an early date is possible but very rare.</p>

<p>However, it indicates in this document (<a href=“http://www.cis.yale.edu/sustainability/leaders/yslmeeting2-09.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cis.yale.edu/sustainability/leaders/yslmeeting2-09.pdf&lt;/a&gt;) that paper stock with the Yale watermark is standardly used here:</p>

<p>[Yale</a> RIS Document Services](<a href=“Welcome | Yale Printing & Publishing Services”>Welcome | Yale Printing & Publishing Services)</p>

<p>and it is conceivable, I suppose, that a copied but self-composed letter could be ordered from here, at least. But an acceptance or likely letter would be printed on Yale letterhead (with printed crest and logo, source office-“Admissions”, etc.), not just a watermark-bearing sheet of paper. Official letterhead from the Office of Admissions would be much harder to obtain.</p>

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<p>Everything about her letter seems right besides the Southworth watermark and the date.</p>

<p>It looks just like a Yale letter should, but instead of being dated December 15th or 16th which it usually us, it says November 27th.</p>

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<p>Oh and it’s not a likely letter.</p>

<p>It’s an acceptance letter. It’s just a question of whether it’s real or not? How could she get in 18-20 days before everyone else? She’s not an athlete or anything and honestly her achievements don’t seem Ivy League material.</p>

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<p>Official EA notification dates are fixed by joint-Ivy agreement. Mid December is the notification date. She’s a fraud.</p>

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<p>Why are you so worried about this?</p>

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<p>pea: If a close friend of mine persisted on claiming something untrue to be true, in order to make herself look good – it would alter the way I would perceive her. But to go to the lengths that this person did – that’s disturbing.</p>