<p>When applying do they see only the /gpas of colleges you write down, or do you sign a form giving them all your background educational info? In other words, if you start fresh somewhere and do well but did bad in 2002 if you don't write down that college in which you did bad in could they track it?In the application it says write down all the schools you attended. If in fact they checked all schools they would never ask you to write down the school because they would be able to find out.</p>
<p>Good point. And BTW , lying and cheating IS a stupendous way to start your medical career.</p>
<p>OP with the new sn - They will catch you and , on the off chance they didn't, going through life looking over your shoulder is still no way to live. Fess up. A slow start doesn't doom you.</p>
<p>This is extremely poor logic. For one thing, clearinghouses exist where students can be searched. Second, medical schools ask you for redundant information all the time. You fill in your grades on AMCAS; you send a transcript. You then sometimes fill in your grades again on a secondary. You list your EC's; you list them again; you write about them; you talk about them. You get graded in science classes, you take exams in other science classes, you take the MCAT. You write essays during the MCAT; you write essays during the primary; you write essays during the secondary.</p>
<p>Medical schools are checking, partly, consistency over time. This ridiculous notion that you can evade detection is not only immature and dishonest, it's also a fantasy.</p>
<p>Why would you want to go to Med School knowing you could be kicked out in your fourth year?</p>
<p>Why would you want to go to med school, knowing the degree for which you worked so hard and paid so dearly could be revoked by your alma mater at any time during your career?</p>
<p>what will happen if you don't write down the one class you took ur sophomore year of hs in a community college?</p>
<p>If/When they find out, you'll almost certainly be expelled. If you took a course at an institution of higher education, it must be reported on AMCAS - no exceptions.</p>
<p>That's the thing people don't understand. Med schools aren't going to like F's. But, have people gotten into med school with F's? Yes. Med schools will forgive bad grades. But, if there's something that's 20x worse, it's lying. This was hammered home so many times to us in the first year of med school: YOU CAN'T LIE.</p>
<p>To give an example:</p>
<p>One student at my med school forged a resident's signature on a patient's chart on the last day of her sub-i (she was a 4th year med student). She was too lazy to track down the resident and get a signature. The patient ended up dying suddenly at the hospital and as is the usual case with situations like this, the hospital's risk management team was called to investigate the situation. When they asked her about the "resident" who signed the chart, she made up a random resident's name and continued to lie about it. Finally, two weeks later, she confessed to forging the signature.</p>
<p>The med school had a long debate about whether to kick her out of school, all for being too lazy to get a signature. They ended up not kicking her out of school because she confessed on her own will. Instead, they took pity on her and by taking pity, I mean:</p>
<p>1) Removed her from med school immediately and made her take time off (at least a year)
2) She was forced to make a video about why you shouldn't lie (this was the video we watched in class)
3) She was forced to do a research project on the prevalence of signature forgeries in the hospital bureaucracy (and she found that it did not happen nearly as often as she thought).
4) She was then allowed to graduate but obviously with this incident noted on her Dean's letter.</p>
<p>Do not lie.</p>
<p>^ hot damn - she should have been kicked out immediately, willful confession or no</p>