<p>I was talking with a friend today about the USC app and he revealed to me that he included a number of fake things on the list, that made me so mad, will he get in trouble for it, do they check?</p>
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<p>on a lighter note, one of my other friends is nervous that the admission counselors will suspect two of his travel experiences of being fake. The two experiences in question are one trip to a campaigning speech by the president after he which he by sheer luck got to meet the president coming out the back door of a the building and then the other experience is when his family was traveling to washington DC he met a congressman on the plane who ended up giving him a tour of the capitol etc. ANYWAYS, he feels like these two coincidences will come off sounding like lies in his application and he was wondering what people on this forum though.</p>
<p>USC does occasionally require Ec and activity confirmation...this is rare though...sadly alot of people get away with exaggerating and lying about EC's and activies.</p>
<p>The fact that you have a very detailed knowledge of your "friends" activites, coupled with your unusually high interest in the methods of verifying these activities, leads me to believe that your "friends" are in fact aliases of YOU. Am I right?</p>
<p>If so, you are an embarrassment to everything it means to be a Trojan. If not, I sincerely apologize and I hope your friend gets rejected.</p>
<p>haha, i can see why you might make that assumption, but no, these friends are not myself, i dont know how I could really proove that to you guys, but I really hope you dont draw that type of conclusion about my integrity</p>
<p>i can see it now:
USC rep: So you're really the founder and CEO of Apple computers?
Student: Oh, is that what my application says? Noooo. i meant the fruit.</p>
<p>My euro teacher, who was once an admission officer at Notre Dame told me that 95% of the time the school DOES NOT CHECK.</p>
<p>People, use your common sense. Let's say I put no your application that you volunteer at a food shelter... what, is the school going to call up every food shelter in your city and ask if you work there? If you weren't listed to begin with? </p>
<p>And what if you work for a company without a website? Will they search for your work place in the yellow book? and call to confirm that you truly work there?</p>
<p>If anything, schools will only have time to call and verify your EC's (easily accessible) rather than your volunteer work and work.</p>
<p>Truth is, everyone exaggerates to a <em>limit</em> to make his/her resume seems more impressive. HOWEVER, lying on the resume, like your friend, just screams bad karma.</p>
<p>I'm a very big believer in Karma. What goes around comes around.</p>
<p>However, if the EC's are over the top and the person is considered for a scholarship, expect some difficult questions about them. When I was interviewing, I saw one guy with what seemed like an unrealistic amount of volunteer hours- something over 2000, I think. It turned out that he was a PK (preachers kid), so he spent all of his time not doing schoolwork helping out at the church and church events. His explanation made sense. If yours doesn't, we'll figure it out during interviews.</p>
<p>I think that if an applicant's ECs are extraordinary and neither the guidance counselor nor teacher references allude to any of this, there might be some skepticism on the part of admission officials about them. If ECs are going to be a hook or even a tip for admission, they would likely need some support in the form of awards or recommendations.</p>