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El Camino College Union: AI combats enrollment fraud at ECC and other California colleges

A campus-paper deep-dive

The student paper at El Camino College reports that up to 30% of applications at ECC since the 2023-24 academic year were potentially fraudulent, and that the college contracted LightLeapAI in March 2025 at a one-year cost of $54,000 to fight back. The piece situates ECC's deployment alongside 116 other California community colleges and explains how the statewide subsidy (effective July 1, 2025) reduces each district's contribution to a flat $3,000.

The same Associated Press figure cited throughout the story: California's community college system faced over 1.2 million fake applications in 2024 alone.

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