my friend “embellished” a lot on his app and the college he applied early to busted after they called my school. He is royally *****ed.
does anyone have any past experiences or no anyone that this is happened to? the consequences? also, if they got caught for other reasons like copying an essay or something
<p>how badly did he embellish?</p>
<p>When will these kids learn that it's not worth embellishing your application.</p>
<p>Jerod</p>
<p>Dishonesty is dishonesty. Ethics aside, put yourself in the position of an adcom: with so much competition, why waste a spot on an unethical jerk? </p>
<p>The pivotal question may be the degree to which the GC is obligated to report this to other schools.</p>
<p>Wow...that was pretty foolish.</p>
<p>out of curiosity, did the school send him a letter or did he get a phone call? oh well, serves him right</p>
<p>What did he embellish?</p>
<p>I think one of my problems on my NU app was that I didnt embellish ENOUGH</p>
<p>He must have laid the embellishment on heavy if they were suspicious enough to call the school. What exactly did he do?</p>
<p>I think everyone exaggerates a little and most of the time nobody finds out.
What did he do, exactly?</p>
<p>wow.. lol he probably put the wrong SAT scores down or added a lot of ECs that he didn't take. That's pretty rare to get busted. What an idiot.</p>
<p>It's not as rare to get busted as you would think. Adcoms are very good at picking up clues about lying - especially in extra curriculars. And, as for copying essays or lying about your grades or SATs --- that is probably easy to spot as well. If I was the person this happened to, I wouldn't be "royally p******", I'd be on my knees apologizing to the guidance office at my school and begging them not to burn me permanently in future recommendations. I'd also go overboard to apologize to the college that caught me, not because I have any chance of getting accepted but because adcoms do talk to each other and share stories like this from time to time.</p>
<p>So he made stuff up on the app? You have to be smart about it though, if you are gonna do it. You have to know how much u can fabrica, and where the limit is. For example dont say that you are a National Merit scholar if your PSATs were in the 20th percentile.</p>
<p>Any more updates?</p>
<p>I think this post is a troll!!</p>
<p>I'm sure students get found out when they lie on their apps, and that getting caught is more likely than students think. However to accuse a student of lying, which the OP seems to imply, is seldom what colleges will do. Why bother and risk a lawsuit? Instead they could simply deny the student, end of story.</p>
<p>I find it curious that the OP started a thread "Lying on Your App" about 2 weeks ago, and now this. See <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=122657#post122657%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=122657#post122657</a></p>
<p>iolllloi, why do you feed the need to embellish more? Or at all?</p>
<p>Because I definately shortchanged myself on my NU ED application.</p>
<p>I didn't emphasize my strengths enough. I'm not lying by any means, wouldn't do something like that.</p>
<p>There's a difference between embellishing and flat-out lying.</p>
<p>Is there, r2005?</p>
<p>Edit: That sounds way too accusatory. What I mean is, how so?</p>
<p>willwonka-- accusatory, eh?</p>
<p>I have done neither of the above, but am aware of reasons why people would do such a thing.</p>
<p>Well, here's an example I conjured:
Let's say you play a sport and are listing awards. You write "Placed 4th in state."
Now, there were only 4 teams in the state that competed. Is that lying? No.</p>
<p>Now, if you said, "Hell yeah man, I got 1st!" and wrote down that award, then it's a blatant lie.</p>
<p>But there is a fine line between the two.</p>
<p>iolllloi, ah, that's not a case of not embellishing enough. That's a failure to adequately highlight.</p>