<p>I know sooo many people who lie about activities on their application and I know some that recieved scholarships because of those lies. How do Adcoms root out the liers? if they dont then its not fair to the other applicants.</p>
<p>They don't always catch liars. But one kid from my school got his acceptance to Harvard rescinded for lying on his application. It doesn't always happen, but you can never be sure.</p>
<p>Some people will always get through by lying, but the second their caught it could ruin their future, because I know that many colleges believe honesty and integrity is one of the most if not the most important aspects of an applicant, and if they find out an applicant had lied about anything on their application they will either rescind their acceptance, expel them, or take away their degree, all of which is their fault. But nonetheless unfortunatley some people slip through the cracks, and though this corrupts the system, there's really nothing you can do about some of these people.</p>
<p>It's not fair but a lot of things aren't =\ .. I've heard that some of the major schools do random testing by verifying the information that an applicant has put down (ie calling the school/organization/so on) but I'm sure it doesn't happen that often. I think lying on your application at "bigger schools" is easier than the smaller ones because the whole process is more personal.</p>
<p>yeah a lot of times they'll just call up the coaches/organizations/whatever to confirm those awards/honors you supposedly won.</p>
<p>Any other opinions??</p>
<p>Do they background-check every applicant?</p>
<p>Probably not....if you were an Adcom, would you want to backround check 10,000+ applicants? Dont think so, but maybe they randomly select a few.</p>
<p>If you claim, for example, to be the Editor-in-Chief of your school newspaper or the leader of a prestigious/accomplished club, they will check. However, if you say you are a staff writer on the newspaper or a member of a prestigious/accomplished club, they most likely wont check. So, if you lie about something big enough that it will help you get accepted, they'll probably check it. In general, lying is just not the way to go.</p>
<p>I heard somewhere that they just randomly pull out a fraction of the apps to background check. But if they find out while you're in college its also really bad too, u can get suspeneded and some even take your degree away.</p>
<p>there is absolutely no way they can ever crack down on it with the amount of students applying to colleges increasing at crazy rates...who has the time to call mommy and daddy and make sure you really did babysit for a sick neighbor or whatever?</p>
<p>They usually don't bother checking on the trivial stuff, though if these are lies they'll bust you for it. It's more like nationally ranked stuff though if you bother to lie on these you better expect to get caught.</p>
<p>Honestly colleges probably care less than you would expect them to about lying about an activity or two...they know lots do it and they are getting your money either way lie or no lie.</p>
<p>Let me also specify that I come from a very small school, a class of approx 180 students. Finding a lie in one of our student's activities is like Bush finding Bin Laden.</p>
<p>Ummm, I would actually have to disagree, most look first for integrity and honesty in an applicant, and if you don't have these forget it, and I know that a lie at my school gets you thrown out and gets your degree revoked, so...</p>
<p>Ok but colleges also know everyone isn't going to obey the honors system, so people take advantage of it easily. Remember a lie is only a lie until it gets discovered. I would bet you percentages are higher that students don't get caught than those that do.</p>
<p>Just remember life is unfair and people get to different places in many different ways...some of those ways being illegal.</p>
<p>But I also bet you that those who do get caught are screwed for the rest of their lives, but w/e take the chance if you want, don't complain later off if you're the type who does ten years of medical school and then at the end of it all they find out oh you lied on your app and guess what those last ten years you wasted for nothing, but hmmm, perhaps I'm just a pessimist who's overly cautious.</p>
<p>Unless they develop some state of the art robot that reads your mind and detects lies or hooks all 10,000 applicants up to a polygram test, I'd say if you roll the dice the odds are in favor of getting away with the lies.</p>
<p>I'm not promoting lying, I'm just playing devil's advocate.</p>