<p>My friend claims to have been accepted into 6 top incredibly competitive schools, (like MIT, Harvard, UChicago competitive) yet she's not going to attend any of them. She's not valedictorian, and from my own experience, I know she stretches the truth alot. It could be my own bias, but I just can't figure out how she could have not been rejected by at least one of them.</p>
<p>Anyone know a similar someone?</p>
<p>I know a person who declared, unequivocally, that she had gotten into UC Berkeley WEEKS before they announce decisions through some esoteric/never-heard-of-before program. BTW, Berkeley lets out decisions on March 26. They have no ED or EA.</p>
<p>This girl is known to stretch the truth. Everybody disregarded her and now think she's a psycho -insert choice word here-.</p>
<p>College season makes people do weird things - especially people who, for one reason or another, have a distorted sense of self and reality. Ah, psychology =)</p>
<p>There are people who convince themselves that they're already accepted because they believe it's impossible for them to not be accepted (they really exist). Some people are just delusional tbh..... I have lost hope in my generation already :P</p>
<p>Wow, just to add to this subject:</p>
<p>Have you ever heard of people even spreading it to little truths? Like for example, they claimed to have gotten into Berkeley, and then decided to go for Davis, when in reality they just didn't get into Berkeley? I know it's hugely noticeable when people do gigantic fibs like Oakland_love's, but what about small fibs that wouldn't seriously damage anyone, but is a "huge deal" for the person saying it?</p>
<p>People have a lot a weird ego-trips and think that having other people think they're the-shLt for getting accepted into a "good" university will improve their image. Yeah, the college season is hella weird.
(it's funny to see how all the responders are from cali)</p>
<p>Well, I am sure some people are lying and others are telling the truth. You never really know. The one thing that no one sees but the applicant and the admissions officers is the actual application, which may contain information the applicant does not choose to share with others, but is compelling enough for the schools to offer acceptance.</p>
<p>Very pragmatic, and thank you for that, but it's just strange how the psyche of college admissions can cause people to gain such a huge neurosis over this. Does lying really gain any advantage in terms of how people perceive you? Is it the whole "shame" thing? Lots of perfectly qualified people get rejected every year from superb colleges.</p>
<p>^^ Oakland_love "I know a person who declared, unequivocally, that she had gotten into UC Berkeley WEEKS before they announce decisions through some esoteric/never-heard-of-before program. BTW, Berkeley lets out decisions on March 26. They have no ED or EA."</p>
<p>UCB has Regent Scholarships. If the person you know has been invited to be a candidate, she can be 90% sure she's in. I went to the interview the first saturday of March, where the Cal reception congratulated me for being admitted to Cal. The acceptance is "unofficial," meaning that they haven't sent a formal letter yet, but you are in. (She told me to call my parents overseas and tell them. I'm sure I didn't misunderstand because I asked her to repeat it three times, and I even asked my interviewer to confirm it).</p>
<p>But yes, there are definitely people who try to make themselves feel better with their stories.</p>
<p>Someone I know told me she got into Carnegie Mellon in december. When I asked her if she applied ED, she just got flustered and said yes, but she wasn't going. I then asked her how she got out of the agreement, and then she went back on what she said and said that she got in under EA, so she didn't have to go. Carnegie doesn't have EA..... and keep in mind this girl has like a 1700, no stand out awards or EC's, and a bad essay. OH and then she informed us that she wanted to attend Misericordia College anyway.</p>
<p>I love people who lie, it's so ridiculous. She continues to tell people she got into Carnegie Mellon under Early Action. LOL.</p>
<p>I guess I can understand this. If you've been professing a certain school and there's a good chance you would have gotten in, it can be a real pain to have to put up with your friends and family (other than your immediate family, that is) if you somehow didn't get in. Btu the kids who lie their socks off? Annoying. I mostly just ignore them.</p>
<p>1 kid said he got into Princeton ED & when i asked how he said one day he & his grandma walked into the admissions office & they said he was in... he looked dead serious so he must've thought i was a b---- for doubting his story...</p>
<p>anyways to stay closer to the thread title: i wondered for awhile how i got accepted to a lotta my schools</p>
<p>Yeah, one time in my graduating class there was this kid who got accepted to UCLA</p>
<p>he was a total ******bag!</p>
<p>I didn't know how he could've made such BS that he was a community service person, yeah he had stats but he was such an ass-hole throughout high school</p>
<p>it was like "Wow, he's not a good person and schools like UCLA accept people like that"</p>
<p>I know a guy who claimed to be accepted to all HYPSM with full FA... He went to local CC because "weather was better"...</p>
<p>Four people I know got deferred from Yale and one got accepted. I was like how the hell did she get into yale especially since the people who got deferred were the smartest people in my school. Yale's SCEA was crazy this year. My entired school is betting her parents got her in. Her parents are so persuasive and rich enough to do what they want.
Like three teachers were fired at my school because she didn't like them. Like for real.</p>
<p>ME TOO. I tried to do something about a teacher who gave me bad grades for no reason and loved to tell people I cut class when the whole class knew I was there. I was like ummm this isn't right and they didn't even talked to him about it. I just kept getting detention for cutting class even though i was there. One of my favorite teachers had different political views than the girl and she didn't like his liberal ways so he was fired!!!
That made me so mad.</p>
<p>apples and bananas...like cool story brah.</p>
<p>people get into schools for all sorts of random reasons. nothing suprises me.</p>