<p>...what will happen to me or my app? will they contact me first and request proof of whatever they're suspicious about? or will they contact me and tell me my app has been thrown out?</p>
<p>will my app be thrown out immediately, or will they just not contact me and wait till the decision date to give me a rejection letter, a silent rejection?</p>
<p>Worst case scenerio is that they admit you, you make all the arrangements, deposits, you decline other places, then they find out and your admission is rescinded and you are out of luck. You have no place to go, and have to explain to anywhere else you want to try to get into at the last minute as to why. Just don’t do it. It’s stupid.</p>
<p>Who’s to know? I’m sure disingenuous stuff is discovered daily. Unless the person is otherwise compelling, it’s very easy to just set that case aside – eventually leading to rejection. </p>
<p>Based on your question, it seems you have something in your file that might be read as far-fetched? If so, it might be wise to send a one-paragraph note as a supplement to your file. If it’s something trivial: like 5 weeks of a summer job instead of 6 weeks, then I’d ignore it.</p>
<p>If you did lie, then I hope you get caught – you’ve got to live with those circumstances.</p>
<p>Oh dear…I always hate to hear this stuff…its so sad. I hope you DiDNT lie…or exaggerate. There is simply no reason to lie or exaggerate. There are over 3,000 colleges in the United States.</p>
<p>I know of one person who lied/exaggerated about EC’s to UNC-Chapel Hill. This person got in and was awarded the prestigious Morehead Scholarship. Then they discovered the lie and rescinded EVERYTHING. The lie was on the Morehead application, I believe and was NOT repeated in other applications. This person is now at a prestigious Ivy League School. But it was sad.</p>
<p>And this person has to live with themself and their tarnished reputation.</p>
<p>No school is going to contact you and tell you they’ve thrown out your app for lying. Why should they open themselves up to a lawsuit? They simply reject these people, same as they do plenty of others.</p>
<p>If something raises a question its more likely they will contact your GC for verification than you.</p>
<p>My GC has known me for one year, and she doesn’t know me very well… what if she unknowingly implies I’m lying when I tell the truth? Can’t the school contact me, since GCs don’t know everything?</p>
<p>I don’t see how they open themselves if they’ve really taken their time to verify their suspicions thoroughly… if they’'ve done that, and if I did lie, there’s nothing to be afraid of.</p>
<p>whatever… thing is when I was 16 I attended an international youth conference that has an official minimum age of 18 years old. I did attend and did participate, I was top of my class in a top school and all so they weren’t strict with the age thing. but on the internet and all it still shows 18 years old minimum. what to do?</p>
<p>I said I found a cure to a disease… Found it at Walgreens.</p>
<p>you attended a seminar…they aren’t going to go zOH, age is this, so he must not have attended</p>
<p>let it go</p>
<p>Admissions advisors are adept in spotting contradictions between an application, the essays and the interview. </p>
<p>Seeing as how your “lie” in question is just a matter of your word against what they may believe I would suggest that you write about the experience in an essay or at least be prepared to discuss it during an interview.</p>
<p>this is ridiculous…its ONE conference…my Ds did lots of things that their counselors didn’t know- but my Ds did create a resume and when they met with their counserlors, pointed out some things to the counselor</p>
<p>what exactly do you think the GC is going to do? her job is to talk about school stuff…this was non school stuff</p>
<p>what about kids who work…as say, 20 hours for 2 years…the admissions people have to trust in a lot of case</p>
<p>egad people…this is SO a non issue</p>
<p>it’s really a non-issue? im just ****ed sometimes if that’s really what colleges do, not giving applicants a chance to explain themselves or show proof. many must have been maligned by oversuspicious ad officers.</p>
<p>It might look better if you mention the age limit yourself. Something like “although the age limit was 18 years.” I’m pretty sure if someone lied, they wouldn’t want to draw attention to the limit. And it sounds even more impressive!</p>
<p>how will the admission officers know, that is the question? It is more about your morals and all. Esp in a case of internationals, the adcoms wont really know the organizations abroad and ECs abroad. Right? I think they have no way to know if the lie is crafty enough.</p>
<p>I think you are getting carried away, here I was thinking that you put something crazy like you won a national science award or were the vice president of the junior olympic committee, you have nothing to worry about, you went and thats the end of the story…relax!!</p>
<p>It’s interesting to me how people will “embellish” on resumes without a second thought, but on college apps the slightest discrepancy seems to send people into paroxysms of fits. </p>
<p>I mean, does anyone honestly expect that colleges have time to verify every minor detail on an application? It’s like expecting companies to call my little employer in Japan to find out how many schools I taught at: it’s probably not happening. Ever.</p>