<p>hello</p>
<p>i was wondering how college can know if i was enrolled in university?</p>
<p>Did you receive financial aid? If so, by law, you have to send the fin aid transcript to the new college. Now, regardless, you have to be careful about disclosure. If you don’t and they somehow find out, you could be dismissed from the school. Depends on the school, they even have the right to withdraw your degree if it is so awarded to you. The bottom line: disclose it.</p>
<p>I work at a university - we submit enrollment data to the National Student Clearinghouse on a regular schedule. Also, if you are applying for federal financial aid, we also transmit and receive that data (it’s called Transfer Monitoring) via the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS), a national database of information about loans and grants awarded to students under Title IV of the Higher Education Act.</p>
<p>If we discover a student previously attended a university and they did not report it to us, we request/require the student submit transcripts from the prior school(s).</p>
<p>It’s in colleges’ grave interest to know the grade and fin aid history of applicants. Don’t you think so?</p>
<p>Given this, do you think they wouldn’t use any tools necessary to protect themselves? Think about it.</p>
<p>well,if i was admitted in a new college i should not be worried that something happens next years 
i think no one cares about students past admission factors.They have so many works to do :)</p>
<p>im applying for financial aid an i m from europe.i just enrolled in university to avoid military service.</p>
<p>but what If i decide to tell them about the reason? will they understand?</p>
<p>thanks in advance.</p>
<p>They may or may not understand. The admissions committee could be sympathetic; or they could interpret your reason as being selfish in trying to evade a responsibility common to other youth in your country. They could also think your duplicity is a character flaw…</p>
<p>Why do you want to hide the fact that you have attended university in your home country?</p>
<p>They do care. Reading over applications and checking facts is the work that they do. Lying on an application is grounds for dismissal, so you should care about what happens in the future. And I can’t speak for admissions officers, but if someone told me that the sole purpose they were applying to my university was to avoid military service I would reject them.</p>
<p>during those years i was working,volunteering,managed my club,etc.</p>
<p>i have moral ground to say that it was 3 gap years.</p>
<p>theoritically they will know,but how will they actually find out if i was enrolled somewhere in east europes university?</p>
<p>Then they may not find out, unless someone mentions it in a rec.
The question I would ask myself is, if you are not proud of your college performance, are you sure you would perform better in the US?
You should also know that not many colleges here give out significant financial aid to foreign nationals.</p>
<p>If you don’t admit that you were enrolled, and you don’t send your transcripts from that university at the time of application, and the college that does admit you ever finds out you may lose your US degree. This could happen while you are in college, or twenty years after graduation. If you were awarded financial aid, you could very well be billed for the full cost of your US education. Do you really, truly, want to risk that kind of consequence?</p>
<p>You have asked this question several different times in several different ways here at CC. Please, if you want to try cheating the system by not telling the truth on your application, don’t waste any more of our time by asking this again.</p>
<p>As to how they could find out, all it would take would be for someone to mention it in an email, post a photo on Facebook, or run into one of your old professors at some event somewhere on the planet. This world is a much smaller, and more inter-connected place, than it may appear to be.</p>
<p>first of all Thanks everyone who took my problem near heart.i really appreciate it.</p>
<p>second,is it so ****ing important to talk so much about it and discuss?</p>
<p>i know for example some students in a good college who didnt say that they were enrolled and you know what they did after that?
they even wanted to show credits,so that they wouldnt learn a subject.THIS IS awful! not my case.</p>
<p>i heard amherst doesnt care about ur enrollment in different uni.so i will send application in amherst!</p>
<p>Why is it so important to you that your previous matriculation remain a secret? Is there a reason that you don’t want to apply as a normal transfer student?</p>
<p>One other question…how did you do on TOEFFL? I am asking only because your English is a little bit awkward (this is not meant as a criticism…hard to convey in writing) and it could hurt your applications.</p>
<p>Because there is a much lower admission rate for international transfer students and i dont like the faculty i study here :)</p>
<p>i have not passed toefl yet </p>
<p>thanks but i know much more in admission decisions then a mediocre student.(through reading prominent books about it).</p>