Cheating

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I can't get this out of my head...</p>

<p>So im a noob in college admissions and i can't understand how the "adcoms" (admission people?) will catch any lies. How about if Billy, writes on his transcript that he comes from this super low income family when he is not. Or says he attended this school for piano for 10 years when he has for only 2. The adcoms aren't going to research all that right? What if you move to your grandma's old dilapidated junkhouse when the interview person comes, and lie to the adcom that ur parents are in Country X working to send the little money that they make.</p>

<p>Maybe i just don't understand the procedure yet...help?</p>

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<p>well they have you send the offical copies of federal income tax returns!!! and theoretically they can check with the piano scholl..coz everybody would be soooo ready to just write up smg that looks cool. i think they sorta first sort out who's a very likely applicant and then from those they're going to ccept check suspictious cases (like those living in drandpa houses - not many people i think) ratherthahn thoseapplying from prestigious known schools wehere people wouldnt just lie...again, who knows...I wondered myself many times..</p>

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<p>"How about if Billy, writes on his transcript that he comes from this super low income family when he is not."</p>

<p>If he's applying for financial aid, he would be filing tax info, etc. If he's not apploying for aid, the college would assume he's lying or would check with GC to find out if he needs help filing aid forms.</p>

<p>"Or says he attended this school for piano for 10 years when he has for only 2."</p>

<p>At the colleges that look at ECs, the above isn't going to make any difference. What they care about is how well one plays. Awards won, solo concerts at Carnegie Hall.... Just taking lessons doesn't count for much.</p>

<p>"What if you move to your grandma's old dilapidated junkhouse when the interview person comes, and lie to the adcom that ur parents are in Country X working to send the little money that they "</p>

<p>When I interview for Harvard, Harvard sends me the applicants name, high school, address, phone number. I also set the place for the interview.</p>

<p>One reason that my alma mater likes alumna interviewers is that we can help put things in context. I know applicants' neighborhoods and schools. </p>

<p>Remember, too, that applicants are asked on applications what their parents names are, what their jobs are and where the parents went to college. Should there be odd discrepancies, an adcom could find out a lot of info through Google or by calling the GC or asking an interviewer to make sure to cover certain points.</p>

<p>Padding one's resume by adding clubs that one didn't belong to is not likely to help or hurt one's application unless one gets caught in the lie. Simply belonging to an organization doesn't impress most colleges.</p>

<p>A student who pads by lying about a leadership position, though, has a good chance of getting caught if the rest of the application doesn't support this or if they are asked follow-up questions in an interview about their duties, and they can't answer the question, including some specific examples of how they work with others, challenges they've faced, etc...</p>

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<p>if you say you are president but aren't, that means someone else is president, so you'll probably get caught.</p>

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<p>Remember, once Billy's caught, he's dead meat. never EVER cheat! :)</p>

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<p>You can lie about ECs pretty easily; however, simply belonging to a club won't help much. If you want the EC to count as a MAJOR part of your application, you need to have won some awards, earned varsity letters, obtained recommendation letter from the EC supervisor, etc. Simply "listing" the EC won't count for much. However, if you get caught lying about ANYTHING, even if it's something as silly as saying you belonged to a club for 4 years when in fact it was 3 years, will KILL you. Your application will be thrown out and they will rescind your admission. </p>

<p>SO it's definitely NOT worth it.</p>