<p>My friend got accepted into UGA EA on Friday. While celebrating, she confided in me that she had lied about her grades when submitting her application, turning a few of her Bs into As--enough to bump up her GPA by 0.1. </p>
<p>How did she get in? Before an application can be officiated the admission office has to receive her transcript, so I know they have evidence of her academic dishonesty. I understand that with so many applicants they don't have time to compare every single persons self-reported grades to their transcript, but did they even look? </p>
<p>After graduation, UGA will look at the senior year grades on her final transcript, and compare it to the GPA on her application, so there's another possible area of getting caught. But I don't think her self-reported grades will be put under scrutiny, as senior year grades don't raise any red flags.</p>
<p>Did she get away with this? I love her to death, but this is a drastic level of academic dishonesty. Should she come forward with it, or let it run its course and hope it never comes up? And in your opinion, do you think it will? </p>
<p>She probably did get away with it but we’ll never know until UGA looks at her final transcript, which will most definitely show the B’s. So unless the AdCom isn’t oblivious like the first one, she will get caught for academic dishonesty. </p>
<p>I hope she doesn’t get away with it. It’s sort of ridiculous to change your grades all for a 0.1 boost when that 0.1 boost could have been obtained had she worked harder in her classes. Now it’s celebratory? Come on…</p>
<p>Thank you for your input, I’m trying to convince her to call the admission office and tell them she made a “mistake,” so it won’t look like she’s hiding anything if the truth does come out. All I can think of is unless she confesses they will revoke her admission close to graduation, leaving her with no college to fall back on. Fortunately and unfortunately, I don’t think the absence of three Bs and the emergence of as many As on her SRAR will be caught unless whoever reviews her file knows what to look for.</p>
<p>The concept of SRAR is such a weakly constructed one; it just promotes academic dishonesty. If anything, they should at least make the councilor report the transcript grades… but even then I’m sure people will buy out the councilors or find some other surreptitious way to increase their chances of getting in. Cheaters will always exist, I suppose.</p>
<p>It’s so upsetting because I feel like I see more and more of these threads of people lying (especially on the SAT ones)
If i were you I would tell her to call the admissions officers and say she made a mistake and misreported her grades. As a fellow applying student, I understand college can be stressful but it’s just completely unfair, irresponsible, and immoral to lie. </p>
<p>LOL she slipped through the cracks this time but wait until the end of the year when they re-compare their transcript. Unless the admissions office is extraordinarily lazy there is no way she would be able to change more than 1 or 2 B’s into A’s and get away with it. Anyone would notice it. </p>