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An Ivy League student accused of making up an entire life story to gain admission was expelled earlier this semester, prompting fresh concerns over academic fraud and gaps in university vetting that experts say could also expose elite institutions to foreign influence and espionage risks.

At Yale University in Connecticut, administrators recently kicked out an undergrad student identified as "Katherina Lynn" after she allegedly lied about her background, according to the Yale Daily News, a student-run paper.

She reportedly comes from California's Bay Area but adopted a "Western name" to distance herself from her Chinese-American roots, the online magazine Air Mail reported , and allegedly concocted a fake origin story, r

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