<p>So my friend who is applying to penn this year, was looking at the supplement and noticed that for parent legacies they just ask you to check the box. My friend isn't a legacy, but if he checked the box, would Penn verify it? And how? Because it only asks you to name your grandparents and their class.</p>
<p>I told him it isn't a good idea, but whatever.</p>
<p>At some other point on the application, the applicant includes parent names. If someone is stupid enough to check this box and lie, they’re not smart enough to get into Penn.</p>
<p>Advi: are you applying to Penn? If so and your friend insists on this course, allow him to do so. It can only make you shine brighter next to his stupidity.</p>
<p>Not sure about Penn, but the other colleges my D applied to asked her to name the legacy person and their class year if they said they had a relative who attended. In one case it was my D’s great-grandfather (not one of the relative choices on her list), so she put that in her additional information section with the years he attended the college. I think most colleges definitely would check it out, it is one of the easiest things on the application to verify.</p>
<p>That’s exactly what I said!!!
He really is a moron, and doesn’t deserve to go to Penn.
And I am also applying to Penn, so I hope he does that, so I have a better chance! :P</p>
<p>Penn has a very strong alumni office. I’m pretty sure (like 100%) that they can check this.</p>
<p>Stupid Stupid thing to lie about.</p>
<p>I know. He didn’t believe me.
But oh well.</p>
<p>They’re extremely likely to check, not to verify his claim (after all, how many applicants are stupid enough to do this kind of thing?) but because they’ll want to check grandpa’s history of involvement/giving to see if the applicant should be considered a development admit.</p>