<p>I ask this cause I am in a pickle. I am a junior who has run track for 4 years, and have consistantly been one of the best on the team. My coach has assured me that I will be a captain on the team next year. Naturally this would look very good on my college applications. However, the fact of the matter is it has not actually happened yet, and that makes me wary of putting it down as a leadership position. Would they actually research this in depth?</p>
<p>you havent even turned in your app. yet</p>
<p>yes, but track is in the spring. I’ll have turned in all my applications by then, and gotton responses from most of them too</p>
<p>You have not ran track for 4 years. You have for 3 years. It would be lying the application to say 4 years when you are only ASSUMING that you will beign track in spring, which is not a good idea. But, it is up to you. I am also a junior, and it sucks because I might get the elad in the Winter Musical, but I will not know in time for applications. :P</p>
<p>^Yea, even assuming that they do no research whatsoever, the fact that you’re a Junior will probably clue them in that you didn’t do track in your senior year…</p>
<p>The only way they would find out you’re lying would be if they received another application from your school, from someone who also claimed to be the captain. So on the one hand, there’s about a 0.0001% chance you’d get caught. On the other hand, there’s also a 0.0001% chance that your being the “captain” would be the deciding factor in their decision.</p>
<p>Don’t put down that you’re captain since you haven’t been named it yet, and yes, it’s true that the college may learn that you don’t have that position.</p>
<p>If you become captain in the spring, send colleges an update.</p>
<p>Can you ask the coach for a reccomenation that includes he anticpates your being captain in the spring? Sept would be fine.</p>
<p>Some high schools are more on top of this than others. Golf is a spring sport. At my son’s school, they pick the captain for the following year now. So he can put captain down on his application. Smart.</p>
<p>They don’t really look at the validity of your EC’s. But at any point of your life, they can call you on something, and if it is not true, then they can take your degree away. Honor policy works best.</p>
<p>Sorry if I’m hijacking this thread, but are you all saying that even if you just put like player instead of captain for, say, a spring sport when you are applying in the fall, you are doing something unethical?</p>
<p>You could say, “plan to play baseball in the spring.” Obviously, if spring hasn’t yet come, you can’t claim to be playing that sport.</p>
<p>But how would one go about doing that in the limited space that the common app provides for extra-curriculars?</p>