Amanda Mae Longacre (born October 22, 1989) is an American beauty pageant winner who was later stripped of her title due to her age.
[1][3][2] Media outlets further reported that, "officials with the national Miss America organization confirmed to ABC News ... that they plan to fight Longacre's lawsuit but will still give her the full $9,000 in scholarship money they pledged to her after she was disqualified ... Miss America officials last month blamed the error on state pageant officials who, they said, missed the age discrepancy in Longacre’s submitted paperwork".
[1][3][2] According to the official Miss America website, contestants must be: Longacre is a graduate of the University of Delaware.
She majored in history and women's studies with a concentration in Domestic Violence Prevention and Services.
[5] She had suspended her studies toward a Master of Social Work degree at the University of Pennsylvania to compete in the pageant.