Admit Lied on Application?

@politicsdancegal In my years working in college admissions, we received MANY such allegations. Unless they came from the authorities or a school and were accompanied by documentary evidence, we disregarded them. I’d focus more on your own education and application.

@ClassicRockerDad I can only speak for the university at which I worked, but it would be exceptionally rare for admission to be revoked other than for undisclosed criminal activity or where it was found that some document had been forged. Most universities as a matter of policy will not accept or consider “anonymous” reporting since this causes all sorts of legal problems.

It should also be noted that the person making this sort of allegation can be subject to severe legal (and criminal) penalties if they cannot substantiate their allegations. Universities will share the alleged offense with the student in question and will identify the person making the allegation. This again is in keeping with the law. People need to be very careful when making allegations that can affect another person’s life or livelihood.

I have had the same issue at my school. This guy who is graduating next year lied about so many things on his application and in the interview, and he didnt even get caught!!! He actually got accepted to MIT, and he is below average in regards to GPA and standardized testing, so I find it very unfair.

If they lied, it’s on them. I’m not sure if this is the type of person to take pride in building their career off of lies and deceit, but sadly there are a lot of people in this world that are fine with doing just that. If it’s any recompense, someone willing to do that big of a lie to move up will probably keep doing it, and will eventually get caught. At that point, they’ll probably regret their actions.

No doubt that they are future politicians, where lying is an art form.

Let it go. Karma (for the liar) is a b****.

I would report it to the accepting schools if I believe it’s true. Doing nothing will just encourage future such behavior by others and a race to the bottom. It’s going to affect you at some point if you want to maintain integrity.

It’s like seeing robbery on a street, but don’t report the description of the robber because you didn’t get robbed. While there may be difference in severity, really there is no difference conceptually.

there is no way a university will do any kind of investigation based on one person as someone noted above. It would have to come from the principal and guidance counselor with evidence. Typically seniors fill out a sheet about themselves that they give to GCs that will write their recommendation. If the applicant lied on that, then maybe you have something. If the college discovers something, then you’re talking admission revocation, but that would depend on the school.

The bigger issue of course is the prevalence of cheating, not just on exaggerating ECs, but sat scores, essays being done by others…admission counselors are shrewd enough to figure some of this stuff out, but they’re human and make mistakes. This was probably one of them.

This is like saying no need to report theft because police will never do anything. Well that could be true. But if you report it and nothing is done, it’s police/university’s fault. If you don’t report, it’s your problem. Besides, I’m not sure a top school won’t do anything. But I guess you will never find out if you don’t report it.