<p>how does a school know if youre lying on your application?</p>
<p>for big schools such as PSU and UTexas/austin, would they ever know that you never played varsity tennis for 4 years, but rather, jv tennis for 3 years?
what about more selective schools, would they even find out about minor changes to a truth, like adding 1 year, or adding a varsity to your sport?</p>
<p>what about obsucre clubs such as mock trial? could one lie and say they did mock trial when they never even tried out?</p>
<p>i know the consequences are dire, but do colleges check up on these things?</p>
<p>i think if theyre not looking out for these things, they should, the honor system doent work, i know so many people who blatnatly lied on their apps and got away with it</p>
<p>Well, I can imagine that it's not too hard to figure it out. And often, it's things like them calling your counselor for something else... and then it somehow slips out that you've been doing something contradictory to what you wrote down... Etc.</p>
<p>I hate it so much when people lie and get away with it. Makes me SO MAD.</p>
<p>People that lie on their apps should be choked to death, but Colleges being more civil than myself sometimes find out about you lying on your apps after you got your degree (BA,BS,whatever) and they can revoke those degrees because of the lying. So any of you IDIOTS or LOSERS that are going to lie on your apps remember that lie could ruin your whole life.</p>
<p>what if its something really petty, for example</p>
<p>Track 10th 11th 12th grade, when really it was 11th and 12th?
or if you make something up like model congress thats kinda obscure in the school but still exists and sounds nice?</p>
<p>is that severe enough for serious punishment? and would that be easy to find out</p>
<p>i think it's dumb to lie, too. because then you will never know if the true "you" could have gotten into the school, only the enhanced "you" that isn't even you anymore.</p>
<p>What about something really trivial (could even be just a neglectful mistake) like saying you spent 3 hours per week in some club, when you actually spent 1 or 2 hours?</p>
<p>Do people lie on their applications and still get admitted to college, Yes. Do people get caught and subsequently get kicked out all of the time. This past fall I was in class with a young woman who got admitted in to a PhD program and lied about being hispanic, she got booted out of the program and now owes the college the scholarship money that they gave her (the world is a small place and she got outed).</p>
<p>But do you really want to spend time looking over your shoulder?</p>
<p>Remember, you sign your application ad state that all of the information provided is true. </p>
<p>The problem with people who lie is they are often not good enough liars to keep the lie going or they have faulty memories and they don't remember who they told what.</p>
<p>Some, once they get to school will even brag about their lie thinking that they got over not realizing that the fact that at any given time someone can send an anonymous not to the admissions department or yoru dean and your admission can rescinded and the college will kick you out.</p>
<p>Even once you have graduated, the college still has the right to rescind your degree leaving you with having spent $170,000 on a worthless piece of paper.</p>
<p>Think of it this way. In reality, yes, you could say you did 5 hours of a club when you really only did 1 or 2, or that you were part of some obscure club that doesnt actually exist. The colleges don't have the time, resources, or ability to check up on this. However, if you really need to rely on petty lies to get into a college, you are a more immoral person than I could ever imagine.</p>
<p>Plus, every time you lie on an application, God kills a kitten.</p>
<p>lying about little things hardly makes a difference. it's lying about the big things (e.g., being a URM, winning a national award) that REALLY help you out. In the end, it's simply not worth it to lose an acceptance over petty lies.</p>
<p>As Rikataka said... -_- Saying you did 3 hours a week instead of 1 or 2 hours a week is NOT going help you. At all.</p>
<p>Check out: <a href="http://www.admissionchances.com/main.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissionchances.com/main.php</a>
It's just a site someone made, but as I was review other people's stats, I realized that a couple hours difference doesn't make a difference, whether it was all 4 years or just 3 years didn't really matter... It's whether the app showed that the person has dedication to it, etc.
Try it out; I guess it might give you a ickle peek into what your app might look like in the big picture.</p>
<p>So what I'm trying to say is, it's just not worth lying over it. It's only "worth" it if you lie about the big things as Rika said, but lying about big things only gets you caught.</p>