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After months of mandatory weigh-ins, stern finger waggings from campus health officials, and stress over her academic future, Yale University has graciously agreed to stop trying to kick twenty-year-old history major Frances Chan out of school for being too thin.
Chan’s story paints a picture of Yale’s student health services department that it sounds almost too draconian to be true. According to the New Haven Register, Chan first started getting hassled last fall, after she went to health services to get a breast lump checked. She was fine, but at 5’2″ and 92 lbs, her BMI fell in a range that the school considered freak out worthy. And freak out Yale did.
Since December, Chan has had multiple medical appointments and mandatory weigh-ins. She met with a nutritionist and a mental health counselor, as well, to determine whether she might have an eating disorder. She said a nurse told her at one point that her low weight would kill her if she didn’t do something about it.
Worrying about student health is one thing, but Chan swears being extremely thin runs in her family, and Yale went totally batshit overboard. Chan’s family doctor sent her health records to student health services, her parents explained that the whole family is a bunch of skinny minnies. Chan says that in an attempt to gain enough weight to satisfy the school, she would stuff her face with all kinds of Bridget Jones sad montage foods like Cheetos and ice cream and do bad-for-you things like take the elevator instead of the stairs. But it wasn’t enough.
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