Harvard, Stanford deny Korean student's acceptance
The acceptance letter from Harvard University that Kim's family provided local news outlets. The school said it was forged. / Yonhap
Harvard and Stanford universities denied Tuesday the acceptance of Korean high school student Kim Jung-yoon, which local media had reported.
A Harvard University official told Yonhap News Agency that the acceptance letter, which Kim's family had provided to local news outlets, was forged.
The official also said there was no program that allowed students to split their study between the two universities and receive a graduation diploma from one of the schools, as reported by Korean media.
Stanford University said there was no student by the name Kim Jung-yoon registered at the school.
It also said a program of studying at both schools did not exist.
The university said it had not published an acceptance letter that Kim's family claimed it had.
Kim, a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia, and her family said Kim had gained early admission to Harvard University last year and that she also had been accepted into Stanford University, Cornell University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology earlier this year.
Kim's family claimed that Stanford University had created a program to bring Kim to the school that would allow her to study the first two years at Stanford and then complete her course at Harvard. Kim would decide which school she would want a graduation diploma from.
Kim's father has said he will discuss the issue with a lawyer.