A 92-pound Yale University student who was threatened by the Ivy League school to be expelled for being too thin. Chan's problems with the school began in September 2013, when she went to Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven to have a breast lump checked. Though the lump was benign, it led to Yale Health, the student health center, scrutinizing her general health and, in particular, her low weight. However, the 20 year old Chan contended she never had an eating disorder to begin with but was simply genetically thin.

To fight the expulsion threat, Chan wrote an essay about her experience that was published by the Huffington Post in March 2014 under the title: "Yale University Thinks I Have an Eating Disorder". In the article, Chan explained: "I met with a clinician on December 4 and was told that the 'concern' was my low weight and that I would meet with her for weekly weigh-ins. These appointments were not optional. The clinician threatened to put me on medical leave if I did not comply." She went on to explain that she's "always been small," just like the rest of her family. "We all enjoy Mom's fabulous cooking, which included Taiwanese beef noodle soup, tricolor pasta, strawberry cheesecake, and cream puffs, none of which make the Weight Watchers shortlist," she writes. "I just don't gain weight easily."

On March 29, 2014 she posted a frustrated update on her Facebook page. "Yale Health's Medical Director in email to my father: 'She does not have the option of refusing to cooperate with our assessment of her health and safety.' So I do NOT have the option of refusing dehumanizing medical treatment?! Looks like someone needs #consentworkshops." Despite plying herself with high-calorie foods, she gained just 2 pounds, which, she was told, was not enough — even though her parents contacted officials to explain that their daughter had always been thin and healthy.

Finally, after Chan's struggling with weigh-ins, pleading with doctors to not place so much emphasis on her BMI, and eventually writing to university President Peter Salovey to apprise him of the situation, school officials relented.