<p>One of my friends decided that it would be fine to make some "corrections" on one of the teacher recommendations. She even forged the signature in photoshop and everything looks amazing. </p>
<p>The problem is that I really think that she is going to get caught even though the spelling and sentence structure corrections were minor. Let alone the fact that I never even got to my rec. letters, I think hers was simply amazing and was not really worth the risk . What do you think? I am telling her not to do it. I am sure there is a mechanism that schools use to verify things like that. maybe they even send scans to the teachers, who knows; they need to scan everything they receive anyway.</p>
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One of my friends decided that it would be fine to make some "corrections" on one of the teacher recommendations. She even forged the signature in photoshop and everything looks amazing.</p>
<p>The problem is that I really think that she is going to get caught even though the spelling and sentence structure corrections were minor. Let alone the fact that I never even got to my rec. letters, I think hers was simply amazing and was not really worth the risk . What do you think? I am telling her not to do it. I am sure there is a mechanism that schools use to verify things like that. maybe they even send scans to the teachers, who knows; they need to scan everything they receive anyway.
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<p>I call either flame or BS. This just doesn't make sense. Why is the friend telling you? Why didn't the friend just ask the teacher to fix what seems to be only spelling and grammar errors? Why would the signature need to be forged if the signature is already on the letter and can just be scanned/copied? Why isn't the teacher sending the letters directly to the school?</p>
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Then again, it could mean that her (potential) admission gets rescinded when they find out or her degree could be revoked.
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<p>Can anyone cite an example of a college degree being revoked because someone perpetrated a fraud in their application to get into the school? I highly doubt that would ever happen.</p>
<p>Thanks, but I'm not at all surprised that a current student would be susceptible to expulsion for application-related misrepresentations. I would on the other hand be very interested in seeing any news of a degree being revoked.</p>
<p>"A student who is accused of academic misconduct by another school or college at Boston University will attend a disciplinary hearing at the school and may face additional sanctions at Sargent College. It is extremely unpleasant to have an academic degree revoked or to be suspended from the University or have a graduation date delayed but every year, a few students damage their professional careers by violating the Academic Conduct Code...</p>
<p>Why is she telling me? because we a doing everything together (including the applications) and the biggest problem is that she thinks that what she does is not bad enough to NOt tell me. </p>
<p>When I said "forged" scanning and placing the existing signature on an edited paper was exactly the only thing I meant. It's still a forgery.</p>
<p>I dont know why were not the letters sent to schools directly, do all teachers do that? Mine did, I never even got to see the letters and now I have to worry how good/bad they were. I dont know. </p>
<p>I think she asked them to do the corrections several times, and now she was simply embarrassed to ask again because it was not good-enough for her. Not all teachers are necessarily good with writing amazing letters even if they try I guess. I dont want to stereotype but I think it was a teacher/coach, and my coaches were never good at academic writing :-)</p>
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"A student who is accused of academic misconduct by another school or college at Boston University will attend a disciplinary hearing at the school and may face additional sanctions at Sargent College. It is extremely unpleasant to have an academic degree revoked or to be suspended from the University or have a graduation date delayed but every year, a few students damage their professional careers by violating the Academic Conduct Code...</p>
<p>Other violations include misuse and misrepresentation of college records and/or application materials, forgery, unauthorized entry into college or individual offices, files or computer records, and theft or damage of university property."
Academic Conduct Code | Boston University Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitations</p>
<p>First page on my google search. This is BU, but I would assume that other colleges have similar policies.
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<p>I think news and examples (even if anecdotal), not policies, would be useful.</p>
<p>well, I never got to see the letter but I dont think that she added anything unbelievable that might prompt the college to contact the teacher. Probably made the wording and description more intense. They receive around 20,000 applicants with I guess 40,000 recommendations, :-) are they gonna call everyone? not likely, but I would still be worried.</p>
<p>I don't htink you should be worried about the fact that they'll call people as much as the fact that your friend did in fact alter the content of the letters. Making a description more intense is as good as reworking it, in my opinion.</p>
<p>Not cool. Probably won't get caught, but still not cool.</p>
<p>I know a lot of teachers who ask for drafts of the recommendation, which they look over, make minor changes (if any), and just sign and send - so technically the students write it themselves. I suppose these recs seem a lot more forged than your friend's....</p>
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I know a lot of teachers who ask for drafts of the recommendation, which they look over, make minor changes (if any), and just sign and send - so technically the students write it themselves. I suppose these recs seem a lot more forged than your friend's....
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<p>And these are generally bad recs. Over the course of applying for various things in my life, I've had to draft a few of my own recs and they've all been mediocre. Someone who knows you well and thinks you're wonderful can say better things about you than you can say yourself.</p>
<p>My teacher wrote me a recommendation and told me to proofread it to see if there is any grammatical errors, or she left out anything important about me. She then signed the recommendation and gave it to me, and I made many copies of it afterward to send off to colleges since I am applying to 10+. I don't see the point of forging a recommendation if you are just correcting the grammatical errors. From what I have read, I felt like you are saying the whole recommendation is forged. She may not be caught, but she will definitely feel guilty inside for doing it. and if you are the one doing it, then you are definitely afraid of the consequence since you are asking what will happen!!!</p>