<p>A kid from my high school is trying to transfer into the same school that I am, so we've been talking a lot about the process and supporting each other. When I brought up the midyear report he told me that if didn't have straight A's by the time the deadline came he was just going to forge his professor's signatures. </p>
<p>I obviously think this sucks but after looking at the form, all it asks for is the grade, signature, and date. Do school's follow up with the professor's to make sure the information is correct?</p>
<p>Is it honestly worth taking a chance?? Whether or not they do actually check if he's caught he's gonna be screwed in more than one way...Forging a signature is the ultimate no-no, and he can kiss going to any college goodbye...</p>
<p>Why do people continue to post questions regarding the feasibility of lying on forms/cheating your way into college? All else aside, admissions offices are keen to all these little scams. If you're naive enough to try one, then go ahead and do it. You'll get what's coming.</p>
<p>I'm with chessie and stewart. Any thread that begins "Lying....", "Will they check...", etc. makes me crazy.</p>
<p>You do the right thing because it is right. End of story.</p>
<p>If one chooses to lie, I certainly hope that person gets caught. Because such individuals should not take places away from those who represent themselves honestly. </p>
<p>Who knows if schools will check up on mid-term reports? Probably in certain cases. But go ahead and tell him that you have authoritative information that they do, in fact, check. :D</p>
<p>BTW, it is not necessary to have straight A's at mid-term to successfully transfer.</p>
<p>I agree with you all as well. The reason why I decided to post is because I thought it would make me feel better if I heard some situations in which it was shown that adcoms really do check on this and that students that do this get punished.</p>
<p>In the end though things will work out the way they should. Thanks for the responses!</p>
<p>Let me give two examples--one well-known, one not:</p>
<p>Blair Horsteine was a young girl who applied for Harvard without mentioning that some of her ideas in her essays (both to Harvard and in her classes) were not hers, but copied from others--this came out after she plagerized some articles she sent to newspapers. Although accepted to Harvard, she was later kicked out. Since applying to another Ivy essentially was impossible she applied and was successfully accepted to St. Andrews in Scotland--were she was a successful student.</p>
<p>Another person--I don't remember the name--applied to Harvard by writing an essay about how he loaned a kidney to his grandmother who would die without the transplant. Only problem was that the whole story was fabricated. He went to Harvard and did well--for the first 2 1/2 years. In the third year, his story came out--and all his work at Harvard was rescinded on the grounds not only that he lied to be accepted--but that he may have also lied on who did his work, a violation of the honors code. In his case he was out the time, the courses, and he still owed money on financial aid--and had to reapply for college. I never did find out what happened to him.</p>
<p>They do require mindyear reports but I highly doubt they will take them seriously, given that they are going to ask for the final tanscript anyways.</p>
<p>But by the time they have the final transcript, there decision will have presumably been made. The only thing the final transcript would be used for is transferring credits/possible rescindment for very bad grades.</p>