Seven freshmen were dismissed and another fourteen have applied to quit school for identity imposture in their enrollment, Jinan University in eastern China's Shandong Province said on Monday.

According to a China Youth Daily report, Jinan University checked the archives to make sure all of the more than 8,400 undergraduate freshmen matched with their record information included in all kinds of documents. However, seven of them have been found cheating in their identities and thus have been dismissed. Another fourteen have applied to quit the school after being investigated.

The teachers talked with each of the students suspected of identity cheating for further checkup, but unbelievably some of them cannot even provide their parents' names, showing their fake identities.

Also, the examinations unveiled further the fake identities of the pretenders. In the Mathematics and English examinations held after the enrollment, some students got scores much lower than those from their college entrance examination.

One of the freshmen only scored 35 points in the English exam, a sharp decline compared with the 138 points in the college entrance examination, the report says.

By now, the 21 students have already left the university. They all entered the university in the autumn of 2007.

The president of Jinan University Cheng Xin said that they would never accept those pretenders into their university, in order to provide a clear campus for the real students.

(CRI February 27, 2008)