I’m applying to some University of California and some common app schools and was wondering if they still audit information. For the University of California, I only have so many places to put extracurriculars and I’ve been on two different swim clubs for two years each, but I don’t have enough spaces so I put my recent one and said I’ve been on it for all four years. I’m just scared that they will audit me.
Usually you can find a way to bundle similar activities. If you just write “swim club” or an adjective that reasonable describes both, you won’t be lying. Obviously, your intent is not to lie here, so just figure out a better way to do what you have to do.
UC audits a small percentage of admits.
Schools definitely audit some small sliver of apps, so I think mathmom has it right. The activity is “swimming” or “swim club” or something like that for 4 years, and then if I recall there is some space to elaborate a bit, no? In that part, clarify that it’s two different 2 year stints.
You have a 1-in-10 chance of being caught since that’s the percentage the UC system audits according to AskMsSun. And each campus may independently choose to audit apps.
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The gray-and-green warehouse in suburban Concord seems an unlikely headquarters for a statewide detective operation, and the fact checkers at work there insist they are not mercilessly probing the lives of California’s teenagers.
Still, there is an element of hard-boiled sleuthing in the University of California’s unusual attempt to ensure that its 98,000 freshman applicants tell the truth about themselves and their extracurricular activities. The stakes are high; UC enrollments may be canceled if students are found to be evasive or lying.
Each year, a small number of UC applicants – fewer than 1% – are caught fibbing about such claims as performing a lead role in a school play, volunteering as a tutor for poor children or starring on the soccer field.
But UC officials say there is a broader purpose beyond the relatively few “gotchas”: to scare everyone else straight.
“We take the admissions process very seriously and we want to uphold the integrity of the whole process,” explained Han Mi Yoon-Wu, a coordinator in UC’s central admissions operations
(from article in LA Times)
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