Lying on your application

<p>How about if you lie for such a small thing as 10th grade basketball? Like suppose you did actually make the team but then you got kicked out in the middle or after a little while or sumthing, can you still put 10th grade basketball?</p>

<p>but you got kicked out . . . you didn't 'graduate' with the team . . . most likely if they called about that, the coach won't be willing to save you if you got "kicked out"</p>

<p>what about being the editor to a school newspaper who only operated for 3 monthes due to school funding problems? Can i still put that on the app.?</p>

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what about being the editor to a school newspaper who only operated for 3 monthes due to school funding problems?

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<p>Remember they ask you how many hours a week an for how long you have been doing this activity. Putting down an activity which you have only been doing a short period of time hurts you more than it helps you. Personally I would not put down either as they would just lead to other questions.</p>

<p>yeah sybbie that is my question. It seems like the "hours per week" thing is fairly absurd, and also open to prob the most exaggeration/lying on the app than any other part. I mean, I know for some clubs, some weeks we'll do nothing or just have a meeting, ubt other weeks it's every day after school until 6 or 7. How can they put any weight into the numbers you provide? It'd probably make more sense to have like a 30 word description of each EC than a number of hours count...</p>

<p>Also, second, I am bit confused by people's rhetoric- "resume" vs application. I'm going to have to plead ignorance here, but are people sending their resumes AS WELL AS the application to colleges, or is everyone on this thread just using the word resume as a substitute for application? I've never heard of someone sending a resume like in addition to the application, though I don't see why that's a bad idea.</p>

<p>OracleP7, </p>

<p>At S's school, the resume is the info the student provides the GC and those he is asking to write recs so that they can write a more accurate evaluation of the student. S's school is medium-sized (250 in his class), but I imagine those resumes are event more critical to larger schools whose GC's are responsible for more students.</p>

<p>what about international students?
They seem to be able to ly about stuff in their own country which may be really hard to check.
How do colleges deal with that?</p>

<p>I'm an international. I'd like to know kennyk's question's answer :)</p>

<p>So my DS's resume was sent to the private schools but not the UCs. It was also given to the GC to give her a picture of his activities. Our GC also requires a questionnaire be filled out which she then uses, along with resume, to write the rec letter. But the bottom line here is why lie? This whole culture of doing ECs just to put them on your resume or not doing them and lying about them is beyond me. Just do things you enjoy and put them on your resume. Life is not about the end goal, it's about enjoying the PRESENT moment...which you will not be able to do if you lie and are always waiting to get caught...duh.</p>

<p>well said ebeeeee</p>

<p>I thought about lying, like putting down more hours per week for ECs, but then I realized college don't give a crap if you work 5 hours a week rescuing kitties stuck in trees.</p>

<p>Don't lie! I couldn't live with myself if I did.</p>

<p>What happened to that guy Machiavelli (Poster on this forum). He was big into lying to get in. I suppose that is to be expected from his name though.</p>

<p>i think shes going to dartmouth</p>

<p>So how exactly would you know how many hours a week to put down when on the application it asks for hours per week you did the activity if sometimes the club was inactive for a little while and then active again?</p>

<p>So will it hurt if I don't put down how many hours I spend on the activities I list ? Some people on CC told me it isn't really necessary but I highly doubt that.
Thanks a ton ! :)</p>

<p>One of my big Ec's is that I have a lawn mowing "buissness", where I mow lawns around my neighborhood for 5$ lawn.</p>

<p>how can i provide the college with verification that this is real?</p>

<p>Well practically eveyone ends up lying. I mean the majority of applications ask for the number of hours you spend per week on each activity. Very few people actually keep track of that. I sort of didn't have any clue and just estimated. I am sure that some of my estimates were way off. Also for a lot of kids they have no possible way to check. At my high school no one keeps track of your activiteis. It is your job to make sure that you record your hours so you can use them on the applications.</p>

<p>Also it really makes me mad when people put Key Club down on their application and they have not paid their dues!! (I was treasurer for a couple of years at our Key Club). And this is something that colleges can easily check (although I doubt that they do).</p>

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<p>Easy, send the adcoms a fat wad of cash to prove to them you've been working</p>