I’m an international students and recently I found my friend cheating on the common app activities section.
He/She wrote that He/She won the competition/conference like (MUN and stuff) when in fact he/she doesn’t. And it wasn’t just one competition/conference it was a couple of it.
It is not fair for us who are being honest about our application.
What should I do?
Does the university actually check the validity of such claim?
I would just leave it alone. It’s your friend’s application and his or her decision to lie.
Universities don’t usually check, but if they do and they catch you, they will reject you immediately if they find it early, rescind your acceptance if they find out later, or even worse they will rescind your degree (something like that not sure exactly) if they find out much later, so eventually those lies will come back to bite your friend.
Anyways, when the counselor rec letters or teacher rec letters don’t mention MUN at all, I bet the colleges will be suspicious and check.