One in Three California Community College Applicants Is Fake

Thankfully this is only limited to California.

Aryeh Jay said:

Thankfully this is only limited to California.

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Isn't it a crazy coincidence how stuff like this only seems to be uncovered in the liberal blue states?

Valletta said:

Roughly one in three applicants to California’s community colleges—about 1.2 million individuals—is believed to be fraudulent.
These are fake students, many operating overseas, enrolling in online classes, submitting AI-generated assignments, occupying limited course seats, and collecting state and federal financial aid intended for real students.

One in Three California Community College Applicants Is Fake | The Gateway Pundit | by Gregory Lyakhov

Until California restores basic accountability across its education and welfare systems, every new dollar—no matter how it is taxed or raised—will follow the same trajectory as the last surplus: spent quickly, tracked poorly, and gone.

www.thegatewaypundit.com

Sadly this seems par for the course.

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Seems a bit fishy. Online foreign students get federal student aid? How? Don't the feds have any safeguards? How limited are seats in an online course? Do foreign students use AI more or better than US students? Does California really give student aid to non-residents?

And what is a fake applicant and why would merely applying be a problem? I can see a problem with fake enrollees, but mere applicants?

Out of 3.5 billion in aid about 10 million from total fraudulent. Notice, it says applicants, but they weed most out before they enroll Nothing about foreigners that I saw. Some of it is Pell grants, (green cards are eligible.) Sounds like they are doing well there by the LA Times. It are those private for profit schools that create the most waste.

GoldenBoy89 said:

Isn't it a crazy coincidence how stuff like this only seems to be uncovered in the liberal blue states?

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Sometimes the "facts" uncovered have extremely flimsy backup.

Inside the 'ghost student' scam that uses identity theft to steal college loans and financial aid​

Federal investigators have more than 200 open cases probing these scams.

Murat Mayor has no need for an associate's degree. The 58-year-old business analyst already has a Ph.D. But when he and his son, a high school senior, attempted last fall to apply for federal student financial aid, they learned that an account associated with both of their identities already existed.

Those accounts showed applications to multiple community colleges -- and much more.

After months of back-and-forth with law enforcement and administrators at community colleges in Maryland and Utah, he finally cleared himself and his son from enrollment records earlier this month.

They are known as "ghost students," and for thousands of colleges across the country, these sophisticated thieves have a become a scourge. The scammers will use stolen or fake identities to enroll in classes online and sign up for Pell grants and loans, then disappear once they get the money -- robbing the federal government of hundreds of millions of dollars and leaving an untold number of victims like Mayor and his son in their wake.

"As they're stealing identities ... these loans are not being repaid. They're being assigned to people [who] don't even know they have a debt with U.S. Department of Education ... [until] the Internal Revenue Service says you owe the Department of Education money."

In California alone, nearly a third of all community college applicants in 2024 were identified as fraudulent, according to the California Community Colleges, the state's administrative body for the community college system.

Similar figures exist across the country.

Hmm.
Story said these problems are nationwide.
Story said tge 1/3 of community college applications in California were identified and rejected before funds were disbursed.
California should not be sensationalized for a nationwide problem it is dealing with successfully.

Well, look at that, federal funding for higher education is the next thing the administration is trying to break.