Language proficiency of Common Application - college checks --> disaster

<p>So maybe you exaggerated a <em>tiny</em> bit on your application about your proficiency in spanish. You did the AP exam and took years of language courses in high school and all, but you aren't really <em>that</em> proficient.
Does anyone have any disaster stories of colleges checking your language proficiency? Do they really check?
How about once you get on campus and you are testing out of the language requirement, and then you fail utterly?
Will anyone ever know that you can't really speak spanish?</p>

<p>Why not just say “level of proficiency indicated by score of [score] on AP [language] exam” if you have taken the test and know your score, or “level of proficiency from completing level [whatever] of [language] courses in high school”?</p>

<p>Sorry if I was unclear. THis is the CommonApp, and there are only options for being able to read, write, and speak.</p>