<p>Is there a way a campus can check to see if you're being honest? I know this sounds really terrible, but i feel like i will not get accepted unless I have some sort of accolade.</p>
<p>If you lie, you might have to live in fear for rest of your life. So be honest. Colleges have the right to verify anything you submit. In so e cases college contact the reco letter writers to verify if they were in writer for those letters.</p>
<p>They can ask your GC, who will generally tell them the truth if he wants any sort of relationship with that college in the future. Will they? That’s a different question. But if they ask and they find out you lied, you are sooooo dead in their eyes. They can check online records as well for prominent contests and awards and if your name doesn’t show up, questions are likely</p>
<p>There’s also the chance your GC will screen your app before it goes in and catch you that way as well. Maybe not a a school where they’re overworked, but our GC would surely catch someone applying to a top school in about 30 seconds.</p>
<p>If you’re applying to an elite school where ECs are important, there’s a good chance you could get flagged by someone in the process. And if ECs aren’t important, you’re taking a risk that will gain you little, but could scuttle everything. And finally, at most schools, if you matriculate, your application becomes part of your record at the school. If they later determine you lied on your application, they can kick you out or in extreme cases, even pull your degree years after you graduated. It’s rare, but it has happened.</p>
<p>*MISREPRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS</p>
<p>Be completely accurate in your application materials. If we discover a misrepresentation during the admissions process, you will be denied admission. If you have already been admitted, your offer will typically be withdrawn. If you have already registered, your admission will normally be revoked, and we will ask you to leave the College. We will even rescind degrees upon discovering misrepresentations in application materials.</p>
<p>The determination that an application is inaccurate or contains misrepresentations rests solely with the Admissions Office and will be resolved outside the student disciplinary process.*</p>
<p><a href=“https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/application-process/application-requirements[/url]”>https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/application-process/application-requirements</a></p>
<p>I’m actually a junior college transfer n not in hs.</p>
<p>N am trying to get into berkely</p>
<p>Considering it took me literally 15 seconds to find online results that list the top honors winners by name, if you claimed a high honor you didn’t win, you might need to start sweating it. </p>
<p>I don’t know how hard it would be to find any participants score, but I imagine it wouldn’t be that difficult to check with the organizer if anyone had any suspicions.</p>
<p>Usually they will not check every detail you submit, but they will probably use online searching and contact a few organizers to verify some of your application. Thus, I would not lie due to the high risk you run (in addition to morality).</p>
<p>“We will even rescind degrees upon discovering misrepresentations in application materials.”</p>
<p>I’d love to know if this ever actually happened.</p>
<p>The UCs actually have a program where random parts of applicants random applications (I don’t remember how many) must be verified thru a program, a letter, w/e. So clearly that system is big on preventing and combating fraudulence in applications (they have a whole department with its own building, I believe).</p>
<p>“I’m actually a junior college transfer n not in hs.”</p>
<p>What is this supposed to mean? Since you’re not in high school, a college’s message to freshman applicants about representing themselves honestly doesn’t apply to you?</p>
<p>Requin was clearly using Harvard as an example. I have yet to hear of a college that condones lying on freshman or transfer applications.</p>
<p>If you really feel the need to make up credentials about yourself, you likely have much larger issues than that. Why not think of ways to improve yourself and your integrity, rather than worry about consequences from others?</p>
<p>Oh, it has happened. </p>
<p><a href=“Yale Student Is Accused of Lying on Application - The New York Times”>Yale Student Is Accused of Lying on Application - The New York Times;
<p>You do realise that the linked story says absolutely nothing
about a degree being rescinded, right?</p>
<p>Ten seconds with Uncle Google yields this:</p>
<p>[Harvard</a> REVOKES Degree Given To Russian Spy](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost)</p>
<p>If you don’t care for HuffPo, as I don’t, I’m sure you can find others.</p>
<p>UC’s send out verification forms to approximately 10% of applicants each year. If you are selected for verification, YOU will have to submit proof of your EC’s. Bottom line - don’t lie. It’s simply not worth it.</p>
<p>Well it might be just as bad to misspell Berkeley…</p>
<p>Ditto what MrMom62 said. The expected value of successfully faking an EC is small, while the cost of discovery is guaranteed rejection and potential blacklisting at other schools. If I were your personal attorney, I would say you violated a canon of good lying, i.e., make the lie unassailable. Unfortunately (or fortunately), our digital age makes very few lies on applications unassailable. Also, on some level, you should want to feel that your accomplishments and degrees rest on a legitimate foundation.</p>
<p>Not sure if wayward_trojan is trying to make a joke or not, but an attorney who advised his client how to lie in order to get away with it would soon find himself in for some disciplinary trouble of his own. Lying is not a good idea, whether you are just embarking on a career or in the middle of one. You will be found out, and you will sustain consequences.</p>
<p>If you applied to Berkeley, there is NO way you are going to slip in false extra curricular achievements into your application. They are the only UC that puts a big emphasis on EC’s for transfer applicants. If that is the case you ****ed yourself over.</p>