<p>Hey guys.
I am in this dilemma which I do not know what I should do. Right now, I know a girl in my college who is applying for transfer application and she sent out fake recommendations. She told me that she created new fake teacher email ( of course, she couldn't make a new fake school email so she just created a new yahoo email). She made and everything and she just wrote her own recommendation. </p>
<p>How likely is this for her to get caught? What should I do to tell her?
Te thing I am worried is the Fake teacher email. because no teacher would give out personal email, they normally have their college email right ? So if she still decide to not withdraw, then are the people who gonna read her application gonna check with the school ? </p>
<p>I mean, will she get expelled and stuff? /
has this happened before ? Please give me advice,
This is quite risky</p>
<p>She could easily get caught, particularly using a yahoo address. Teachers typically use their school email for recommendations. A yahoo address would raise a red flag. If I was an admissions officer, I’d call the school and possibly the teacher to check on it. That would probably lead to a long suspension from school and that college’s app would go into the shredder. Then the guidance counselor is obligated to report suspensions on the original application form and the mid-year report. As a result, she might be able to get into Upper Swampgas State Junior College.</p>
<p>A student can make some behavior mistakes and still get into a good college. But colleges treat fraud and cheating very seriously.</p>
<p>She also better hope that no one finds out who doesn’t like her. Admissions offices often get “tips” that a certain applicant cheated, got arrested or otherwise should be more carefully investigated.</p>
<p>I commented on this post, as you posted it in another thread. What answer are you looking for other than the one we gave you on the other thread? This girl is toast. You really should try to help your friend out before its too late! See my other post for details! Best of luck!</p>
<p>p.s. I agree with charlieschm:A student can make some behavior mistakes and still get into a good college. But colleges treat fraud and cheating very seriously.</p>
<p>One of my students forged a recommendation to law school, purportedly from me. The law school admissions committee thought the letter didn’t read as if a professor had written it, so called me up to check. When I assured them the letter was a fake, they notified the College Board (or whoever it is that administers the LSAT). The upshot is that a notation was added to this guy’s score report, which will bar him permanently from law school anywhere in the country. Of course, law schools don’t want patently dishonest people.</p>
<p>What’s silly about all this is that about 90% of teacher recommendations are strongly favorable: the problem for admissions committees is seeing past the puffy rhetoric. It’s not worth it for anybody to risk his or her future over this nonsense.</p>