<p>Some people mention the term "lettering" in Varsity</p>
<p>I ran with the varsity team on track and cross country. None of that ever went on my transcripts or anything. There is not real record of it.</p>
<p>How will colleges know whether I was varsity or not? Will they just believe me if I put it on their application?</p>
<p>I'm not a recruited athlete, nor do I plan to be. I did moderately well and got MVP and Most Improved at the end of two separate seasons.</p>
<p>All you have to do is write it on the application, you don’t need to “prove” it or anything. If they admissions committee is concerned, they can always call your coach to verify it, but usually they will take your word for it. </p>
<p>Also, getting MVP and Most Improved is actually a great thing to put on a college application. It shows that you were very committed to your sports, and even if you weren’t the best on the team you continued to improve and try your hardest, qualities they value in an applicant.</p>
<p>Great, thank you</p>
<p>It’s amazing how easily someone could lie on their applications, however I don’t see an alternative as colleges cannot verify all of those applicants.</p>
<p>You’d be surprised how easily admissions committees can spot lies, without actually verifying each fact. They look for consistency in an application, so for instance if someone has bad grades and a bad teacher recommendation in a science subject, and then said they did science research, that might raise some eyebrows and cause them to check it out. But for the most part, I think peoples’ consciences stop them from lying on their applications. Or else I hope that’s the case.</p>
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Most schools don’t care much about ECs even if they have space on their apps to list them, mostly because people expect colleges to be asking about them. At those that care the ECs that you could easily lie about are not the kind of ECs that will make much of a difference for you anyway. So if you lie and say you worked every Sat. at a soup kitchen, that isn’t really the kind of EC that puts you over the top at very selective schools. Starting a group to run a soup kitchen sponsored by your church, that’s much more impressive and also leaves enough of a trail that it could be checked. Any interviewer asking about it, too, can tell in 30 seconds if you’re making it up or really did it. You weren’t planning on skipping those alumni interviews, were you?</p>
<p>So I have a question…</p>
<p>I spent some time shadowing a top credit administrator for Zion’s Bank. I don’t know exactly how long I spent, but I’m putting 2 weeks. Do you think colleges will contact that person to verify?</p>
<p>No, I don’t think they’ll call to check. Of course you run the risk that a college will be delighted to learn of your interest in credit administration and assign you a local alumni interviewer in the banking industry, who will expect you to be able to talk about things you learned during your 2 week stint.</p>
<p>But to answer the question you didn’t ask, no I don’t think that “EC” is going to make a whit of difference in any college that cares about ECs. As Stanford says in its Admissions webpage
I don’t see how 2 weeks shadowing someone meets the bar of being a meaningful EC to a very selective college.</p>
<p>damn you sound like you’re scared of getting caught.</p>
<p>so I shouldn’t mention that internship? I thought it at least showed interest in business. Maybe for Wharton?</p>