<p>Well it's not so much 'lying' as just being mistaken. But, this (delusional) kid from my school thinks his/her parent taught at XYZ university, and is planning to write them in as legacies. His/her parent taught at an institution w/a very similar name (i.e. ZYX), but a different school nonetheless. </p>
<p>I'm warning him/her but he/she won't listen. What would happen if he/she writes in a false legacy? Do adcoms usually check these?</p>
<p>Btw I am not lying. I don't have an incentive to, since I have an actual legacy to XYZ.</p>
<p>"Do adcoms usually check these?"
Absolutely they do. The whole point in applying legacy is that your family has a vital connection to that school, and any good adcom will want to find out what connection that is (especially if it means a nice new addition to their library lol)
So yeah, if she lies accidentally or otherwise about legacy she is pretty screwed. But honestly, how stupid is she that she doesn't know where her parent taught. Can't she just ask?</p>
<p>No, don't do it. Honestly people get caught often enough when the source of information is back in the applicants home town. To lie when the files revealing it are just a keystoke away, or often just in the room next door? Not a smart move.</p>
<p>Out of curiosity by the way, what's the college pair? Columbia University v. Columbia college? Georgetown University v. Georgetown College? Harvard v. Haverford?</p>
<p>Of course they check because all legacies are not treated equally. They run your name past the development office to establish if your relative is a major donor or an alum actively serving the U.</p>
<p>If anything, I'm pretty sure legacies are one thing that they'd check. And this kid is obviously not "mistaken" if he or she is aware that their parent wasn't once a teacher there. This kid is trying to catch an easy break, and those don't really exist.</p>
<p>Are you sure about that? My parents went to Yale and Northwestern for grad school, respectively, but I'm pretty sure that while Yale considers me a legacy, N'western doesn't. Be sure that children of UChicago grad school alumni are considered legacy when applying for UChicago u-grad.</p>
<p>At the college where I work, the accuracy of a legacy claim could be verified with a few keystrokes into a database search. </p>
<p>The admissions folks might not check it immediately, when your friend's application is just one in a pile of thousands. But when it comes down to actually offering admission? You bet they will.</p>
<p>wmmk - different schools treat this legacy matter differently - Penn considers any child of a person who received any degree (whether undergrad or grad) as a legacy.</p>
<p>seriously, don't do it. you hear some crazy stuff about people doing that, getting rejected, and even getting blackballed from that university and others it has some affiliation to -- excuse me, tell your "friend" not to do it hahaa</p>
<p>^ It makes it all the funnier that it is Loyola vs. UChicago
They are seriously going to reject her immediately once they find out she lied about legacy. I hope you can get through her craziness to dissuade her.</p>
<p>I'm sure a handful of applicants to University of Chicago (the private and non-religiously affiliated one) think that they're applying to one of the other two schools that share name similarities with us (the other is University of Illinois-Chicago).</p>
<p>But if you think about your cardinal directions, it's easy enough to remember which is which:</p>
<p>Loyola= North
UIC= West
University of Chicago= South</p>
<p>The U of C also doesn't put much weight to legacies (as somebody pointed out to me, if they did, they would recognize it). This is probably because our alumni giving rate is not very high, so unless your parents give the school a lot of money or your last name is Obama, it's probably not much of a bump.</p>