<p>Post #20, I’m going to contact these colleges next week and ask them this question. Why the heck did they put these things on their websites and not able to quality control it? I want to know what they are going to say.</p>
<p>You can lie on your application just about anything. People have done so over the years. Sometimes they catch the cheaters, and many times they probably don’t. Is it ok to lie even if there is very small chance of getting caught? How many kids are supplanted and opportunities taken away by all these different type of cheaters and liars each year?</p>
<p>Post #22, yes the Harvard case. But I’m going to ask anyway. I want to challenge them. Annoying mom wants to know kind of situation.</p>
<p>^I’d like to know, too. I don’t understand their reasoning for wanting all of the scores if they can’t enforce it. </p>
<p>When I said I didn’t feel guilty at all that probably came across too strongly. If I had to redo this process, I would send all of my scores but I was freaking out last fall, all of my classmates were using score choice, and my guidance counselor said I should use it for all of my schools (although he’s an overworked public school GC with little experience so I shouldn’t have taken his advice).</p>
<p>I’m actually attending Duke in the fall because of family near the school and a great F.A. package and they do let you use score choice. Kind of ironic…</p>
<p>But still, you got into other schools by lying, over other kids who did follow the rules and did NOT lie just to benefit themselves.</p>
<p>Okay, i sent all of my SAT tests and scores because it was a single fee for all scores. The only test I did not send was one of my ACT test scores that was a point lower than the one I did send. The main reason for not sending this score was that it would have cost a lot of money. I question whether that score would have gotten me rejected and another person accepted but I understand what you’re saying. I hope that in accepting a place at another school where I did follow their policy, another person will be accepted off the wait list.</p>
<p>Post #26, some students are not even aware of the fact that they have to send the ACT scores either. I did some googling(hence my screenname) and found that Penn did state specifically in its website.</p>
<p>Do you mean that they think that score choice only applies to SAT tests and they can choose to send only certain ACT tests? I can see that happening especially after seeing the GCs some schools have. I have to move a LOT so i’ve seen how wonderful and how awful GCs can be. Most of the kids at my school didn’t even understand the difference between SCEA, ED, EA, REA, etc.</p>
<p>I guess I complied with the SAT score choice policy for all of my schools but if some of my schools required SAT and ALL of the ACT tests I didn’t.</p>
<p>^Yeah that’s what Dr.Google means I believe. </p>
<p>Also just to clarify Johns Hopkins and Tufts encourage you to send all of the test scores but don’t require it. The school where you didn’t follow their policy was Penn. The other schools let you use score choice or don’t require you to send all of your ACT scores if you send all of your SAT scores. </p>
<p>I mean you still broke the rules but its not like you broke them for all of your schools.</p>
<p>^It is not only your action but on your many posts, you are encouraging others to lie and suggest that the school would never find out and Collegeboard can be sued. If you are talking about legality, it is actually fraud and larceny to lie on your college application.</p>
<p>Post #28, I meant they didn’t think they had to send the ACT period. If they did better in the SAT test compare to the ACT test, they only send in the SAT. I believe one poster said he didn’t even send in the ACT.</p>
<p>I apologize for encouraging this person to not send in all of his/her test scores. In my real life, classmates and guidance counselors act like it’s not a big deal to use score choice no matter what the school’s policy is. This is the first time someone has been so upset about it. I really had no idea this policy was taken so seriously. </p>
<p>Collegeconfidential is really my only source of information about college admissions and I had never seen a topic about score choice so I just used the information given to me in real life. I wish this topic had come up earlier in the year. </p>
<p>bigapple, thanks. I feel a bit better knowing it was only one school that I skirted the rules with.</p>
<p>@ttparent</p>
<p>While lying on your college application could be considered fraud (in some cases), it is definitely not larceny. Unless your swearing or signing on the legality of the application, lying is simply immoral.</p>
<p>[How</a> a Lie on a Harvard Application Ended in Larceny, Fraud Charges](<a href=“http://gawker.com/5541134/how-a-lie-on-a-harvard-application-ended-in-larceny-fraud-charges]How”>How a Lie on a Harvard Application Ended in Larceny, Fraud Charges)</p>
<p>[What</a> We Can Learn From the Lying Harvard Larcenist – Daily Intel](<a href=“http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/05/what_we_can_learn_from_the_lyi.html]What”>What We Can Learn From the Lying Harvard Larcenist)</p>
<p>From first source (I’d imagine the same for the 2nd):</p>
<p>“Wheeler is also believed to have stolen some $45,000 in grants, scholarship, and financial aid by acquiring it under false premises”. </p>
<p>That’s what made it larceny. Otherwise, your not “stealing” anything from lying on a college application.</p>
<p>Nice lawyer speak and a gotcha argument. What is your point in this whole thing? Lie your way through application process, and if you get caught it is just a moral issue? Are you saying no one gets hurt or damaged or opportunity stolen by such action?</p>
<p>My point is that its a moral issue, not a legal one. Personally, I would never do that (although ironically the ACT lets you “erase test dates”) but I understand OP’s reasoning in doing so and could really care less. 99.9% of the time the OP would’ve been accepted to the college anyway.</p>
<p>It could easily be a legal issue, why do you say it can’t? You don’t lie just for the sake of lying, you lie to get something. When you do get something, it is a legal issue.</p>
<p>@keeponreaching Based on past posts of yours, I’m inclined to believe that you also “hid” some SAT scores. Either way, what you did was wrong and you should not advocate for others to do the same. Hopefully you’ve realized that and will not continue to do so.</p>