24-year-old Mackenzie Fierceton won a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship last year to study at Oxford University, and now she’s lost her place at the school after accusations that she lied about her past.

As the Evening Standard reports, University of Pennsylvania graduate Fierceton was one of only 32 people selected for the scholarship in November 2020. At the time, she received praise for overcoming a self-described difficult and impoverished upbringing. Per the Times, she called herself a “queer, first generation [to attend college], low-income” student. And in a report by the Philadelphia Inquirer last year, Fierceton said she bounced between various foster homes in her childhood.