<p>it's really annoying to see people work their a** off to get the hr while some other just sit and lie and make up and get several tens hours for that</p>
<p>Ugh. It’s really annoying to see people who complain about things that don’t affect them and/or don’t cause anyone harm.</p>
<p>^What a libertarian point of view. </p>
<p>Sadly, people DO do that and get away with it. But that’s life…</p>
<p>At my school, your documented community service hours appear on your transcript, so you can’t make them up. I think all schools need to implement something like that.</p>
<p>sugar_sweet, I wonder whether you would be saying that if someone who lied about their service hours got accepted to a school that rejected you.</p>
<p>That’s life. It’s one of the many, many unfair things out there…</p>
<p>i know all shcools should have it put on their transcript because to graduate you have to have ten hours your senior year depends what semester you have government but alot of people will just make it up and have there parents sign it so dumb</p>
<p>I really hate liars.</p>
<p>At our school, the place you volunteer at has to put their address and phone number. So the coordinator can easily call them up and validate.</p>
<p>Well apart from the fact that I only applied and got in to 2 schools…</p>
<p>I’m gonna say the same thing that I believe about ECs. If you have so many that it makes a significant difference to your app then the hours can be checked. Otherwise faking 20 or 30 more hours won’t make any difference to elite schools. </p>
<p>Now I agree faking hours is a bit of an ***hole move, but it’s not like it impacts anyone…it just gives people something to feel self-righteous about.</p>
<p>Let me rant. It is fun knowing that for the past four years, I have volunteered nearly 4-5 hours every weekend, IN ADDITION to a job, yet some kids are putting down the same amount of hours. Schools NEED to check the verity of ECs.</p>
<p>yeah they do!</p>
<p>college admission officers count up the hours that you did an activity and see if the student has that time in his schedule… if he doesn’t, you can easily pick out the liars</p>
<p>Not necessarily. Not if some activities are only for certain portions of the year, and/or the applicant doesn’t sleep. <– you’d be surprised at how many of those there are</p>
<p>^ easier said than done.</p>
<p>I could say right now that I volunteer 5 hours every weekend (instead of my real 2) and have volunteered for, say 10 months. That’s 30 more hours and an ENTIRE DAY worth of volunteering added to my resume. Colleges can’t pick that up and say I’m lying – it’s too hard to disprove or figure out. Multiply that by 3 more activities and you have one BS of a resume.</p>
<p>Of course, I refuse to lie anywhere in my apps. It’s a moral thing for me, and also something that I know will plague me if I actually get into Stanford or whatever based on a profile that isn’t honest. A kid from our school got a TERRIBLE rep for that…and everyone knows him as “the guy who cheated his way into Stanford”.</p>
<p>I hear you</p>
<p>I have over 500 hours of volunteer med service and hospital volunteer</p>
<p>and I have docs to prove them too</p>
<p>Not making it up!</p>
<p>The number of hours is probably not even a tipping point. Lying and getting caught (it’s usually easy to check) is an instant rejection. An applicant who will lie about these hours will lie about other, more important factors.</p>
<p>“At my school, your documented community service hours appear on your transcript, so you can’t make them up. I think all schools need to implement something like that.”</p>
<p>“i know all shcools should have it put on their transcript because to graduate you have to have ten hours your senior year depends what semester you have government but alot of people will just make it up and have there parents sign it so dumb”</p>
<p>How would that even work out? I can volunteer somewhere and not have the school involved in any way. Infact, I’d rather have it that way. If schools did have to report that to Universities, I’d pretty much have to go through the trouble of getting paperwork worked out every time I wanted to help out somewhere.</p>
<p>Here, community service isn’t required to graduate. PIG gives you the opportunity to volunteer, but you have the choice of doing something else instead. There are even ways of graduating without taking PIG.</p>
<p>For the person who said not to complain about things that don’t affect us: If someone is applying to the same school and they have a fluffed up resume with fake hours, it does affect us. So shut up. This is a discussion board after all, let people gripe all they want.</p>
<p>It’s very easy to fake. Say you go to the library in volunteer for 1 hour then in that manner you just make up the document and let your (brother/ sister/ aunt/ uncle/ grandpa etc.) sign it and make a note explaining that there’re lots of librarians in your local library.
You just hand it to school. Who would know that if you didn’t say it?</p>