<p>Let me start off saying that I do not have any problem with lying on a college application because even people who I lokk up to did it. I have good grades and pretty good SAT scores. I have done multiple activities but no sports. I feel like one sport would compliment my application. Would saying that I did a recreation league sport for 2 or 3 years be easily detectable? I am going to be a senior and last year I told my guidance counselor so I am covered if they call her. What else would I need to look out for? Thanks.</p>
<p>“What else would I need to look out for?”</p>
<p>Most folks might not have quite as loose a view of morality as you. I’m not sure why you would expect people to help you lie to get into college. </p>
<p>anyone with experience for his situation?</p>
<p>“I am going to be a senior and last year I told my guidance counselor so I am covered if they call her.”</p>
<p>You told your counselor to lie or that you actually play the sport? To be honest, you’re a bit stupid if you think lying about participating in an unimportant extracurricular activity will tip your application. Also, I hope you know that you can still be punished for lying on an application after acceptance.</p>
<p>If you guys don’t think that it will tip my application than I will not not do it. Most of my friends did it and they thought it tipped them did. I’m glad that you guys don’t think it is ok because my school is riddled with it.</p>
<p>If you find a college that will allow you to be tipped in because you happened to do “a recreation league sport for 2 or 3 years” you’re the freaking Indiana Jones of college treasure searches.</p>
<p>You don’t get the irony here. Piddly stuff that one can easily fabricate is exactly the stuff that NO ONE cares about (except maybe your gramma who shows up at the art display or buys the expensive junk you’re selling as a fundraiser for your “charity”). Only real items and are generally verifiable – things that others (rec letter writers) generally can affirm – will make a difference.</p>
<p>Go ahead – put down your “rec league” sports achievements. If readers of your applications spend 0.8 seconds looking at it each, I’d be surprised.</p>
<p>"I’m glad that you guys don’t think it is ok because my school is riddled with it. " You’re glad of this? We’re worried b/c your morals are swayed by the ramblings of internet strangers. Find your own way friend. Do it early – it’s tougher as life proceeds.</p>
<p>“I’m glad that you guys don’t think it is ok because my school is riddled with it.”</p>
<p>Then why don’t you be the honorable person. Set an example. Do the right thing. You’ll like yourself better.</p>
<p>don’t do it, its not worth it.</p>
<p>rec league sport will not help at all.
if you were going to Lie and say that you were varsity (blank) that would be a different story</p>
<p>I have have been well documented on College Confidential as highly opposed to cheating and lying, whether for school or for applications. Quite frankly because you are signing off on your word that everything is true, your reputation, integrity, and acceptance are on the line.</p>
<p><a href=“What will happen if I apply to 2 ED colleges? - #6 by shawnspencer - Applying to College - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/17521835</a>
<a href=“cheaters? - #37 by shawnspencer - High School Life - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/17518534</a>
<a href=“How do colleges proof that you aren't lying about your ECs? - #15 by shawnspencer - Applying to College - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/17454191</a></p>
<p>The fact of the matter is, you don’t NEED a sport to get into college. At all. I got into multiple colleges without one single sport. Colleges are not necessarily looking for well rounded people, but a well rounded class and people who are passionate about what you do. If you are dedicated to your other ECs, those are what you should focus on. not making up some insignificant activity that won’t matter in the long run.</p>
<p>If you want to lie, it is not sport that is missing from you credential. It is your integrity.</p>
<p>It does not sound like a particularly good idea to me. These sorts of things have a tendency of coming back and biting you in the *** in ways you least expected. Also, lying is not a good habit to get into. </p>
<p>But of equal concern is that you would think it was a good idea to go onto a public message board visited often by many parents and pose this question. What did you really expect us to say? 
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<p>The fact that you are asking means this bothers you. Listen to your conscience and take pride in having integrity.</p>
<p>You are really going to jeopardize your integrity to say you played a rec sport? Honestly, no college will care at all. And if you do any interviews and it comes up you will look like an idiot when you can’t talk about your experience with any detail or conviction. Unless you are a recruited athlete, a sport is an EC like any other. If you really do have multiple activities (that could be a lie as well??) you will be fine without lying about doing a rec sport – and as an extra benefit, you will be able to look yourself in the mirror.</p>
<p>You’re GC routinely signs off on this for students?</p>
<p>For one, your guidance counselor should be fired and charged/fined on fraud.</p>
<p>second of all, if all your friends said “lets go kill ourselves for Cthulhu!” would you do it?</p>
<p>One more extracurricular isn’t going to make or break your application. Remember- colleges aren’t always looking for a well-round student, but rather for a well-rounded class as a whole. If you were varsity captain of a school sports team, that would make a difference. But 2-3 years of a rec league? Lying about this is not worth the consequences- preserve your own dignity.</p>
<p>@ultimablade - I understood that he told his guidance counselor that he played the rec sport outside of school. Not that he was intending to lie on an application.</p>
<p>Think you are kidding.
T26E4 and others said it. Whoever these peers are, that you look up to- well, none of this says much for your judgment. Gotta wonder if this is trolling. </p>