<p>I have this quick question that how do the Admissions Panel of a certain college find out whether the candidate have done the EC's in reality or is he simply faking it ?</p>
<p>Cause other than the recommendation letters, what else does the colleges have for proof ?
And what about the top notch colleges ? Do they need some sort of proof or something regarding the EC's that we put in the admission application ?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Colleges usually assume that candidates are truthful. If there is suspicion or a discrepancy, colleges will usually double-check with, say, the student’s boss or whomever.</p>
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<p>So generally they don’t check whether the student really did those EC’s or not, right ?</p>
<p>Dam, that’s why so many idiots get into top-notch schools…:(</p>
<p>[Ex-Harvard</a> student accused of living a lie - Boston.com](<a href=“http://articles.boston.com/2010-05-18/news/29280980_1_mit-harvard-university-harvard-professor]Ex-Harvard”>http://articles.boston.com/2010-05-18/news/29280980_1_mit-harvard-university-harvard-professor)</p>
<p>This should explain it.</p>
<p>@20122016</p>
<p>LOL, see that’s what am saying.</p>
<p>lol, that guy was a freak. I’m sure it’s easy to get away with little lies. For example saying you were Math Club president. They can’t check that, or can they? :}</p>
<p>I’m dead against any sort of lies, especially when some1 is competing for the Ivies.</p>
<p>I mean what’s the outcome of the lie, you get into “some” school perhaps, but still ur a loser :)</p>
<p>I opened this thread cause I was fishy about a few students around me, getting into the Ivies, whereas in real life as far as I know, they’re nothing more than ordinary :)</p>
<p>I know one kid this year who embellished quite more than just a little bit. He got into all but one Ivy, and every single top20 school he applied to -.-</p>
<p>Its a real shame :(</p>
<p>There are always cheaters who try to game the system. Sometimes they win, but only during the short term. Karma will come and bite them in the behind eventually. Most of these people graduate from Harvard or the like with a fancy piece of paper, nothing more.</p>
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<p>Born2Dance, what type of embellishing did the student do? That’s a real shame that we live in a society with people willing to lie to get into college.</p>
<p>@Diagnostician well he joined about 30 clubs at our school and like 10+ he automatically became an officer for in senior year. But he lied about being really involved in them. I know for a fact he wasn’t very involved in debate, because he showed up to like 5 or 6 meetings this year (despite being a captain) because he had newspaper, model UN, and mock trial on the exact same days. Every day he had multiple clubs, but barely showed up for any. Yet he admitted to people that he wrote he was extremely involved in all of them.</p>
<p>He also would relentlessly bother all of his teachers until they changed his grades to A+s. And if they wouldn’t he’d get his parents involved until the grades were changed. This happened all 4 years of his high school career (he’s graduating in a few weeks).</p>
<p>He also plagiarized on his science research paper in junior year, and was threatened with suspension (his parents threatened the school with something so that fell through), and got a failing grade that quarter and on his final research project (which is a big deal because only 10 kids in each grade of 400 are accepted into research). Yet somehow he was able to hide this from colleges, and still got into every single top science program in the nation.</p>
<p>Well, technically, since he became officer honestly, he didn’t lie. However, he did plagiarize, which is wrong.</p>
<p>He didn’t lie about being in the clubs, but he did lie about being heavily involved in them. Like I said, he showed up to no more than 5 or 6 meetings for each, yet told people he wrote on his apps that he was a very active member of all 30 clubs, so he lied about attendance. I know the kid, we’re friends, but academic integrity he has not.</p>