In 2007, Jones resigned her position as director of admissions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology after it became known that she had fabricated her academic background.
[5] Jones resigned from her position at MIT on April 23, 2007[6] after it was revealed that she had falsely claimed that she held academic degrees from Union College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on her 1979 job application to MIT and had added a fabricated degree from Albany Medical College to her resume sometime thereafter.
[1] The Times characterized Jones's earlier fame as "the guru of the movement to tame the college-admissions frenzy".
[9] After her resignation, Jones became the number two newsmaker of the day on Countdown with Keith Olbermann for "begging college applicants not to pad their resumes" while having done so herself.
[11] After her departure from MIT, Jones created a consulting firm that provides college admissions advice to institutions and applicants.