<p>I mean, do you get a certificate to prove it to them or something? What if people can just lie about their ec's?</p>
<p>I was talking about this on another forum.</p>
<p>I’ve had classmates lie on their app. I hope they don’t get in (I’m a karma person), but they probably will, and this reward will cause them to lie more in life until something horrible happens, which may not occur.</p>
<p>Integrity now seems to be a thing of the past.</p>
<p>I was completely honest on my ECs and community service</p>
<p>although I think the schools will be like "500+ hours on hospital volunteer? yeah right!)</p>
<p>but it’s totally true!</p>
<p>Well, I think colleges can call if the EC seems a little far fetched. This most likely won’t happen unless the school is small, like a LAC, or if the EC is really something that an adcom doesn’t see everyday.</p>
<p>I think this doesn’t happen a lot because usually for really unique and big ECs (like starting an organization or something of the like), your recommendations can probably attest to them or something. In the least, if they do contact your school, they can probably verify it somehow.</p>
<p>what about on the hours per week?</p>
<p>I said I did 10 hours a week for 40 weeks Marching Band And Pep Band</p>
<p>and bam</p>
<p>IDK</p>
<p>I was like “It was that many weeks, that many hours but is it really that many hours per year?”</p>
<p>400 looked a bit high, IDK if they believed me.</p>
<p>The extracurricular that you could lie and get away with are often extracurricular that probably don’t merit much significance in regard to your app.</p>
<p>UCs do random EC checks.</p>
<p>“Integrity now seems to be a thing of the past.”</p>
<p>Not true at all. You can’t make such a statement because some of your classmates lie about ECs.</p>
<p>With my own kids, and most of their friends, I’ve seen that many students forget lots of the ECs and community service that they have done. I know this because I’ve seen the apps of students whom I’ve mentored, and I also have had to sign off on community service. In several cases, the students had forgotten major activities that they had done. Only one student wanted me to lie and say she did more community service hours than she had done (and, of course, I refused to do that, and lost respect for that student).</p>
<p>the eyes of God inform them</p>
<p>Some schools do random checks. However, for the most part, small lies won’t be caught (not that it’s okay to lie). The general consensus is that lies big enough to be significant will generally be caught and small lies will have little significance.</p>
<p>nothing happens if you lie…probably one in a thousand will be caught. the liars will most likely become productive members of society. its not that big of a deal to be honest. a person like you would obviously be consumed by guilt if you did lie, so i wouldnt recommend it. the liars probably just do it and dont even think about it. over time, they will probably even forget that they lied.</p>
<p>NBD</p>