<p>I was just wondering, what would happen if you lyed on your UC application. Like, lets say you were really Vice President of Relations of your CC student body, but you lyed and said you were Vice President of Finance. What would happen? Do you guys know if they check to make sure all your info is correct? Do they have access to CCC information? Any of you guys know if someone got caught lying?</p>
<p>honor code.</p>
<p>In my school there is a lot of paper work involved in starting and continuing an official club. Usually the spots for the president, vp, treasurer and secretary are filled in with student names and id #'s and it's all entered in the database. If I lied on an application and the school called my school (Baruch College) to check up on whether or not I was indeed the treasurer of Club XYZ they would find out pretty easily.
This isn't HS; most colleges are a lot more organized and official so information is more readily accesible. </p>
<p>So I don't know if they check up on students, but why lie? Even if you have great stats, which self-respecting committee would knowingly accept a student who lied? </p>
<p>and:</p>
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<p>socalgirl, </p>
<p>if it is you that is thinking about it. Don't! No seriously, your stats are already impressive. You should be able to get into ucb with your gpa alone.</p>
<p>please dont tell me you are an economics major applying for UCLA...
I don't wanna compete against someone who's been a vice-president of a Leadership Club in college :(</p>
<p>^It's not all that hard to get into UCLA (or Cal for that matter)</p>
<p>Several of my friends got into impacted majors with gpas below 3.1</p>
<p>Point being, another poster on CC is not your 'competition'</p>
<p>good thing i'm not applying to la as an econ major(applying as Math/Applied Science major)!</p>
<p>on a side note, how selective is Georgetown University in comparison to Cal?</p>
<p>and how much does EC activities play a role?</p>
<p>As printed on the catalogue, EC's are towards the bottom on the list of things they look at...but they will definitely help you if you're on the borderline, especially if something's related to the major you're pursuing. Showing interest always helps.</p>
<p>And as for lying...don't do it. Someone I know lied about getting raped to explain her only C. I thought that was incredibly unethical. And don't you want the satisfaction of knowing that you got in fair and square? What if you took the spot of someone who truly deserved it...such question would haunt me forever.</p>
<p>"Someone I know lied about getting raped to explain her only C."</p>
<p>She is a disgrace to women everywhere who worked hard to gain acceptance at a top UC..not to mention, actual rape victims. I'm so disgusted.</p>
<p>I second that Tallkell! What a disgusting person.</p>
<p>yea, (not that i want to) but couldn't a person bend the truth and claim they are president of a club thats not affiliated with the school</p>
<p>lets say a person has absolutely no real extracurricular activities</p>
<p>well they can always lie about having a leadership position in a club outside of school (lol which would consist of them and their friends) </p>
<p>the club could be inactive, and practically not exist, but who would be able to prove that?</p>
<p>I hope ppl dont get the wrong impretion of me. I was just thinking about what would happen to a person who lyed on an application. Also, since i applied a couple years ago as a high school senior to the UC's, I always wondered, "Hmm, I wonder if they can/do check the EC's."</p>
<p>I have wondered how often they really check as well. Not that I am considering lying at all. Just kinda wondered how often people do and get caught as well. Doubt anyone will know, cause if they lied or got caught odds are they will never tell anyone.</p>
<p>i know a girl who lied and got into UCLA and another who had someone else take the SAT for him, and hes going to davis...</p>
<p>it only really ****es me off when people claim to have been doing an activity for years, when there are actually people out there who put their time and effort into their activity...the more liars out there, the less impressive the stats become for those who actually bust their butts and get involved in stuff lol lifes not fair</p>
<p>They do random checks...they don't have the resources to check every application.</p>
<p>Cardinal, do you have any proof to back up your statement?</p>
<p>Here's a really helpful link. I think that when referring to the Haas School of Business, they're talking about the graduate school, not the undergraduate.</p>
<p>your application is not just for college, everything you do now will have consequences, imagine 15 years from now, you are running for president of U.S. and your opponent digs up your old application and verifies that you lied on your college app.... that could be very damaging.</p>
<p>not that i'm advocating lying on app, but 15 years from now, all source of evidence will be gone by then!</p>
<p>Way to go Haas! They were talking more about lying on your resume to get into the MBA program though....in any case.... point for the good guys!</p>