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Advisory committee reports rising fraudulent applications; ApplyTexas to add CAPTCHA and refine high-school list
Summary
Committee members reported increased fraudulent applications—both automated and third-party submissions—and discussed indicators (improbable timestamps, business addresses, mismatched high schools). The coordinating board plans to add CAPTCHA/recapture measures and has enhanced the high-school list to include city/state.
Advisory committee members and coordinating-board staff reported an increase in suspected fraudulent applications and discussed steps the ApplyTexas team is taking to reduce them.
Molly Gulley, senior director of advising strategy at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, told the group "we are seeing fraudulent apps both with bots and with third parties and individuals." Committee members described common indicators: sub-minute application-completion timestamps that are humanly impossible, repeated or business addresses, mismatched high-school names and graduation years, and…
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