<p>I have a friend who put a bunch fake EC's on his application to UIUC and he was admitted.</p>
<p>Well it’s not like colleges have time to inspect every single applicant’s ecs, and especially if they’re generic ecs such as school clubs. I know at my school most clubs don’t even keep lists of members, so even if a college contacted my high school they wouldn’t find out. So yeah I guess you could if you wanted to.</p>
<p>unfortuneately, yes</p>
<p>It isn’t the greatest idea because the school might check, but yes it is very easy to lie about ECs.</p>
<p>Yeah i don’t think its worth the risk</p>
<p>Yes. I’m pretty sure a most people fabricate the truth regarding their ECs. The point of the application it’s too make yourself look good and people will go to any extremes to do so.</p>
<p>Why not lie about the SAT scores and your grades too. Fake some paperwork three. And write up your own recommendations as well; I’m sure you can do better for yourself than any teacher and counselor. </p>
<p>Most schools don’t care about your ECs much anyways. Not a make or break thing unless you are the High school debate champion or made some national honor. Then it’s easily verifiable. Stupid to get caught saying your the captain of the volley ball team or some other such thing and get caught on it when it didn’t matter anyways, and yes, kids get caught the craziest ways on these things. i can tell you stories…</p>
<p>He (and you) have no way of knowing if those fake ECs played much of a role in admission. But to answer your question about whether its possible to lie? Sure, people probably get away with it. Funny thing, though, is that what a lot of HS kids think of as impressive in terms of ECs does not match what colleges think, so it was just a waste of time. And some colleges, like the UC system in CA, actually have random audits aimed at catching/deterring invention of ECs. </p>
<p>Kids that lie about ECs often show their general lack of judgement in other ways; for example, in blabbing about it. Why did your friend feel the need to tell you or anyone else about it when he could have quietly filled out the app with nobody the wiser? The people he told know his name and the school he applied, and so do the people they told. Once the info is out he can’t put it back in the bottle, and all it would take is someone calling the school (or asking a GC to call the school) for this all to crash down. When you submit an app you certify everything is true, and you can be rescinded for lying or kicked out of college if they find out after school starts. I’d hate to live under the cloud that somewhere out there is a person who, out of spite, might want to turn me in.</p>