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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s dean of admissions, Marilee Jones, resigned yesterday and confessed to the ultimate sin of her profession: lying on an application.
Jones, who had led the admissions office since 1998, falsely claimed degrees at three schools in upstate New York, an MIT spokesman said. In reality, Jones briefly attended just one of the schools, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and never enrolled at the other two.
Profiles of Jones in The New York Times and Boston Globe last year said she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemistry and biology from RPI. A short biography on the Web site of the National Association of College Admission Counseling referred to her...
The statement by Jones Thursday, which said she would have no further comment, apologized “for disappointing so many in the MIT community and beyond who supported me, believed in me, and who have given me extraordinary opportunities.”
MIT would not provide a copy of the resume Jones submitted to the school or specify what type of degree she claimed to have earned from each institution. MIT’s Web site appeared to contain no biographical information for Jones.