I sent in a fake recommendation?

<p>You do know your IP address is visible to the forum moderators, don’t you? There are many deans who frequent this forum and it would be quite easy to compare your IP address with their transfer applicants. I’d be worried. Unless you are a ■■■■■. </p>

<p>I would imagine there’s a red flag when a professor doesn’t use their university email to send a recommendation letter.</p>

<p>My initial thought was the OP was a ■■■■■ too. However, on the off chance he is not…</p>

<p>OP: Maybe Admissions will check, maybe they won’t. Maybe you’ll get away with it. I really can’t say. But, honestly , I can’t believe anyone would really be willing to take a risk like this. Certainly what you have done is wrong in every sense, and yes, you could possibly be taking a space from a more deserving candidate. I’m not posting to argue those points. I just hope you realize that if you are admitted, those two fabricated reference letters could haunt you forever. You don’t get bonus points that you sent in your real transcript. And, it won’t matter if Admissions didn’t put much weight into those letters initially when making the decision to let you in. If the school ever has a reason to go back and check, and they find part of your application was fraudulent, you will be deemed as having been admitted under false pretenses, plain and simple. Once caught, there will be consequences, and they could be much more than simply “being banned” from ever applying there again, which is what I assume you were referring to. Depending on how soon thereafter the forged recommendations are discovered, any of the following are within the realm of possibility: admission rescinded, suspension, expulsion, forfeiture of credits earned, or revocation of degree. The last could occur even years down the road. And in these last two instances, you would still be financially responsible for any tuition, fees, room and board owed to them (or others in the case of loans)…for classes for which you may no longer have the credit for, or a degree for which you may be legally prohibited from ever claiming you received. Furthermore, how do you think an employer will view all of this if its discovered? Finally, I won’t even go into that if caught, there could even be possible legal ramifications for you. So, think very carefully about all of this. </p>

<p>You asked for thoughts…so here’s mine. Faking your way through life is no way to go through it. Lies will eventually catch up with you in one way or another. So, do yourself a favor and fix what you can now. Withdraw your applications immediately. </p>

<p>I hope OP is a ■■■■■. The ethical implication of this is staggering. I don’t care if you get into this school or not. What I’d like to know is: what other questionable choices have you made to get ahead, and where did you learn that this is in any way okay? I feel sorry for you, when you realize that you can’t fake your way through other, more important parts of life. What goes around, comes around.</p>

<p>My friend did that for Dartmouth, haha.</p>

<p>Congratulations. Fight fire with fire! </p>

<p>The consequences for cheating in life might be dire. But if we’ve made our pipeline to achievement higher and higher stakes as our population of ambitious people grows and grows, then so are the consequences of not cheating. You made your decision, it was honestly pretty clever (though, like bipolarbuddha up there said, not all that clever if you’re not confident your fake letters were stylishly done- professional, superlative but not hyperbolically so, don’t say anything weird or off color), and I hope it works out for you. </p>

<p>You should never be desperate to get into a certain college. There are plenty other colleges that are just as great as wherever you apply to.</p>

<p>fake gmail account? many colleges won’t even look at the application if the email is from a public emailing site. if it isn’t <a href=“mailto:johndoe@thisschool.edu”>johndoe@thisschool.edu</a> they probably won’t even bother with your application. </p>

<p>well, OP, I think we’re all curious… how did this turn out for you?</p>

<p>Click on their member name, they were just here to ■■■■■. No reason to dig up this old thread.</p>