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<p>Get over yourself or go away, seriously. One’s state of mind has a huge impact on their decisions.</p>
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<p>Just let the individual schools know. The common app is just a third party company to facilitate the application process</p>
<p>Email each school individually and ask to withdraw your application. I had to do it for a few schools b/c I got in ED. It’s really not that big of a deal.</p>
<p>The really sad truth is that the colleges create this kind of pressure where they want the best and brightest and a certain number of AP courses and high SAT scores. There are places like this that will say you have virtually no shot of getting in these colleges, and parents and kids flip out. Parents want this more than some kids do. So the kids in private and public cheat their way through on tests, get on ADD meds to stay up late so they can cheat some more from older siblings who have had the tests (now they are getting wise and holding on to exams), and kids lie all the time. I believe that is the crux of why there is so much teenage drinking and experimenting with drugs because they can’t handle the homework pressure or pressure to get to the Ivyies their parents want them to go to. </p>
<p>A psychiatrist friend of mine said he has so many kids in his practice now who got into Cornell and hate it. They were there 3 months and flunked out and the parents are pushing my friend to “make” their kid go back so he won’t ruin his life. One of the 3 kids he counsels can’t even articulate his thoughts let alone put a full sentence together and he wondered how he got in in the first place (possibly the parents wrote the app? who knows in this crazy day and age of affluence and entitlement). I’ve seen very wealthy parents give $20 mil endowments to an ivy just to get them in…it has to be a really high amount not a piddly $25K which would be a lot to the majority of us. </p>
<p>On the other hand, a college counselor at a private boys school I know was scratching his head because he had one boy that really was a superstar, had the grades, had the extras, had the super SAT scores, and he didn’t get in ANY of his top 3 schools which sent a message that silver spoon fed kids are not going to automatically get in anymore. I’ve notice an increased number of kids in our public schools getting in Ivyies and top liberal arts colleges so maybe the pendulum is swinging. They also now are turning their noses up at kids who go to expensive summer programs and prefer kids who just have a “job”! </p>
<p>You just never know what they are looking for but Wheeler certainly figure it out!</p>
<p>RmblinReck, Adam Wheeler’s story shows exactly how EASY it is to fool the college admissions…not the other way around. The only reason he was caught was because he applied for a scholarship. He received admission to both Stanford and Harvard with fraudulent information.</p>
<p>Secondly, College Board does not tell colleges ANYTHING. They do not “blacklist” you from every college in the country. That is the oldest myth ever.</p>
<p>What you did was extremely ■■■■■■■■ though. You edited the grades on the school report or whatever but forgot about the transcript?? You would definitely get caught for the inconsistencies so make sure you withdraw it asap. </p>
<p>Contact the colleges, do not tell them it contained fraudulent info. Just say you want to withdraw it.</p>
<p>This sounds horrifying.</p>