<p>I am now very very scared and anxious. One of my classmates, she hates me a lot. And I heard from one of my best friends ( who was her friend too) that she mailed to admission officer of schools I will apply for(in particular Yale and Cornell) bad things about me that she made up.
Although I know that there are many people doing like that and admission officer will say that "dont worry, we dont care", but why shouldn't they believe that made-up information?
My friend told me that it would hurt my chance a lot because everyone had flaws and weakness and it was very hard to not to make mistakes, so if that classmate did bad things to me, who knows what she would send. And if she just bombards bad things about me, admission will look at my application with very careful and cynical consideration. Should they take risk of accepting student who doesn't have good relationship with friends? If 2 profiles are similar, I believe admission staff wont choose me.</p>
<p>first i suggest you verify that your friend really did not, not just threatening you.
if you know for sure, have you tried calling the admissions officers? when you call, you should be anonymous and ask if such mail was received. talk to your guidance counselors to take care of it. obviously it’s nothing you can take care of yourself. that girl, whoever it is, will get in big trouble…</p>
<p>if it comes to worst, i’d just give up but not forgive that girl, and do the same to her haha… no i’m kidding. but still, who does that…
i feel so sorry for you …</p>
<p>This is what happens when you tell random people( especially ones who aren’t related to you) every single thing that you do, especially when it is completely unnecessary to do so. I would not doubt it if you where trying to rub your test scores in everyones nose to make them ****ed off enough to hate you.</p>
<p>People who are not related to you, best “friends”, or not, always, nine times out of 10, get jealous of other peoples success other than their own. It just makes sense to keep your mouth shut. Period. If its one thing I learned from my parents it is this:</p>
<p>Always be humble in front of others. Show that your better by your actions, not your words. People will respect you for that.</p>
<p>Thank you 10243406: I am always humble :). Just she hates me because I won a very great award at school in last minutes when she thought that she was the only one on the road to the award. I wont never be arrogant to anybody, I am sure about that. About the SAT, I dont want to make public my SAT score to my classmates just because I know a lot of my friends are very competitive so I just said that my score was very low to be looked down on by them but not being hated. But when my best friend who I trusted in told other people that my SAT was higher than what I said (and higher than hers) and I won that awards, that classmate thought that I tricked him to win that awards ( something like he thought that saying my SAT score was lower was a scheme to be overlooked and no one cared about me in the application process) . </p>
<p>I just don’t want to make it specific here because it is my personal issue but please dont assume that I am very arrogant. Anw, I appreciate your comment. So what should I do ?</p>
<p>Honestly. Even if they had the time to do send nasty letters to admissions about you. Admissions wont even bother to glaze their eyes over anything unless there was some type of payment in the form of a check, or money order attached to it. In other words, if it was just a letter they sent. Admissions would just dismiss it as irrelevant.</p>
<p>actually, they might just care about those letters. a lot
there was a very similar incident at my school, in which some kid
sent a series of emails to harvard admissions detailing the “moral flaws”
and “lack of academic integrity” of another kid that he hated;
i.e. that he cheated.
the admissions contacted the school to verify& teh whole situation became very messy.
in the end, the guy didn’t get in</p>
<p>but man, that girl is screwed up.
i can’t even imagine how you can do that to a fellow classmate. </p>
<p>but anyways, in short
yes, they probably will care.
i don’t want you to be deluded into thinking that they will just brush off a letter
questioning your integrity just like that; not at schools where the acceptance rates are so low.</p>
<p>i would try speaking to your principal/counselor, and maybe they can contact the admissions for you</p>
<p>rlaehgund, even if Cornell did investigate. These accusations to the OP , as she sates, are false. If the statements are false, then any repercussions would be null. Cheating is a form of academic dishonesty, so it would make sense for Harvard to investigate. In your story, the other person seems to have been caught cheating.</p>
<p>Do not worry about it if you didn’t do anything wrong. Americans tend to believe you are innocent until you are proven guilty. They also don’t look kindly to snitches. I hope this person is not applying to Cornell or Yale. Adcoms get letters like that from time to time, and they know why people write those letters. Relax.</p>
<p>no, the person never cheated.
the kid was making that entire stuff up, like the op’s enemy.</p>
<p>i don’t know how cornell would view it, honestly.
but the thing is, if someone sends you stuff like that, be it true or not,
you have to admit, it does cast a shadow over their application.
i’m just saying, i don’t think those letters are going to go completely unnoticed.</p>
<p>I seriously doubt Harvard would consider a HIGH SCHOOL students PEERS accusations as legitimate. Like oldfort stated, Adcoms do get these letters. And they are well informed of the intentions. Whoever you heard that story from, sorry to say, it was probably more of a rumor than anything else.</p>
<p>I am sure that they will try to contact my high school or GC but I am an international student and my teacher (as my admission counselor & the recommendation writer) dont know English. She just writes the recommendation in my native language and get it translated. So I dont think colleges can have any answers from my GC. </p>
<p>Btw, I have an idea. Should I ask her to write a formal letter to describe my situation and send it all in my package in case that girl sent something bad about me? Will it make a bad impression that we look down on admission staff as naive people who believe in such things? And I am not sure that that girls accuses me or not so is my idea irrelevant?</p>