<p>Do colleges fact check and how for...</p>
<ul>
<li>Clubs involved in?</li>
<li>Club officers?</li>
<li>Sports?</li>
</ul>
<p>Usually not for everyone.</p>
<p>Bust most check occasionally. Also, if the counselor doesn't mention it, or at least demonstrate that you've been involved along those lines, people will become suspicious.</p>
<p>Similarly, if you say you're the leader of a club, organization, or multiple clubs, but recommendations and everything else doesn't point towards any leadership, then you're also in trouble. At the very least, the leadership won't be given much credit. At the worst, you'll be thrown out immediately.</p>
<p>As for sports, don't those show up on your transcript? Those can be easily spotted.</p>
<p>I wouldn't lie on anything. If your application is entirely different from the recommendations and doesn't come out in the essay, then it doesn't shine a good light on you.</p>
<p>Plus, if anything ever gets uncovered later, then you're kicked out.</p>
<p>And why live with lying?</p>
<p>I don't know you, and honestly, I asked the same question a while ago, so I can understand the curiosity, but it isn't worth it.</p>
<p>Sports really do show up on transcripts? All the transcripts I've seen never mention any sports... O_O;.</p>
<p>It might just be my school, then, but they count as classes.</p>
<p>Yours might not, but it counts as physical education here.</p>