<p>Its disgusting how so many people lie on their applications. This one student at my school who was accepted to multiply ivies claimed to be the current Chief Editor of a National Magazine. This is a foreign Magazine that is incredibly huge. I checked it on wikipedia and it supposedly has several thousand copies sent out every day. This student wrote a lot about it in essays and such and it was 100% false. How do you ask I know this? This student sent me his resume and asked me what I thought. I thought that this was just so stupid or he was kidding so I didn't reply. One of my teachers today was talking about how amazing this student is for being the Chief Editor of this newspaper. And it just dosen't make sense. He gets B's in English. His writing skills are mediocre at best. Can't adcoms link the poor writing skills in his essays to his EC's?</p>
<p>Multiple other students who have been accepted to top colleges such as Stanford, Princeton and Yale do the exact same thing. What are the adcoms doing? Aren't they supposed to be experienced and actually checking for these types of things?</p>
<p>And what I'm really ****ed about are the things that adcoms can check so easily. This one student claimed to have a certain score on the AIME when he never even qualified for it. He's been accepted to a top college.</p>
<p>Countless other students go to one team or club for a single day, and then say that they were captain. And worst of all, someone said that they were captain of a team that I'm in fact captain of. ***. And to answer some of you who may ask how do you know? Well, the teachers write their recs and know their resume. Word then gets around quickly. Teachers are pretty much isolated to their departments, so an English teacher does not know if a student was actually captain of the math team.</p>
<p>Another foreign student, claimed to have wrote a research paper in his home country and published in a magazine, while his father wrote it for him. His father has a PhD. </p>
<p>And yes, sometimes competition gets fierce, and these students try to expose the other students. But if one student exposes the other, then the other exposes him, and neither of them want that... So much BS. ._.</p>