Prestigious Yale University has rescinded the admission of a student whose family allegedly paid $1.68 million (US$1.2 million) in bribes get her into the Ivy league school at the same time some of the parents embroiled in college admissions cheating scam face the first indictments.

Yale becomes the first school implicated in the US college admissions bribery scandal to publicly take action to boot a student as a result of the allegations.

"Yale has rescinded the admission of one student as a result of this matter," said Tom Conroy, a spokesman for the Connecticut university.

Yale University in Connecticut is one of the prestigious institutions where bribes have been paid to admit student applicants. Credit:The New York Times

The student, whose name was not disclosed by Yale, is identified as "Applicant 1" in the Justice Department's indictment of former Yale women's head soccer coach Rudy Meredith, who is among the 50 defendants in the sweeping case. Meredith resigned from the position in November.