<p>Dear OP, </p>
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<li>Lying is WRONG even if it is to embellish your chances. I’m not attacking you personally, I’m just stating the fact that lying’s not right any way you look at it. I know plenty of people who didn’t have such great scores/EC’s/were in extremely poor circumstances, but they were very honest about their situation, and got into Ivies over people who were debate captains and had 2400s. Believe it or not, the adcoms would rather have your complete honesty than exaggerated hours.
Also, you mention that you know people who got in and graduated even after embellishing. Well – colleges can revoke your admission at any time while you’re in the school if they see fit. I think most colleges can revoke your degree after you’ve graduated if the offense is serious enough. Please, don’t let this haunt you for the rest of your life. </li>
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<li>posting here with these questions is just plain stupid. Again, not criticizing you, but the act. I’m sorry, but if I were an adcom, I would be able to find out exactly who you were in less than 15 mins, with IP addresses and all as well as all the personal info you put out here.</li>
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