<p>Is it against the rules to fabricate life experiences for the essay? Does anyone other than the graders read the essay?</p>
<p>Well, colleges get to look at it, but they understand that the essay is not graded on factual accuracy. To give you an idea, many people claim to have friends who had cancer to fit into an essay example.</p>
<p>How are they going to know? My only advice is not to say something completely unbelieveable or verifiable (e.x. saying that Martin Luther King Jr. was a white supremacist wouldn't work), but personal examples are fair game.</p>
<p>I've also heard of people making up books, but I'm not that creative "on the spot", I wouldn't have time to do something like that during an essay...</p>
<p>I totally made up statistics, totally made up a school with a fake situation, i got a 10 on the essay. I think it is okay for sat essay, but not actualy college essays, that would be lying.</p>
<p>Making stuff up is fine. Just make sure that they could be possible. Like you said, don't say something drastically wrong; colleges can look at it. It would probably be better if you wrote about your own life experiences, because if you made up a life experience, it might be harder to accurately discuss it, since you haven't actually experienced it. But it really doesn't matter.</p>