A Scottish university student took his own life just three months after his school mistakenly reported that he didn’t have enough credits to graduate on time – and now his family is looking to ensure other struggling students don’t slip through the cracks.

Ethan Brown, a 23-year-old geography major at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, killed himself on Dec. 13, 2024 — the day he was supposed to graduate with honors.

Months earlier, in September 2024, the school “wrongly informed him that he did not have the necessary credits to graduate,” the University of Glasgow wrote in a statement obtained by People . 5

Brown’s mother, Tracy Scott, found her son dead in his bedroom, and said she still wakes up every day in disbelief he’s gone.

“You wake up and you think it’s a bad dream

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