So a class mate had a couple of good things on her app, but she was NEVER REALLY DEDICATED TO ANY. For example she did SRLA, for a couple of years. Its a program to run the Los Angeles Marathon and it really consumes lots of your time, but she never attended school practices only the weekend ones. Also, she said she started her own nonprofit organization, she did but she did nothing. I was in that club, and it was very horribly organized she kept telling everyone that her club was amazing and I was in it like, ummm no it was not you didn’t do anything except the mandatory community service hours. In addition, she was the class president in 11 th grade, but they kicked her out because she didn’t do anything, and she STILL put it on her resume. She had so many things and she had horrible grades like pure C’s but then bam, she got into St. Marys, a really good college considering she didn’t do much. I don’t know. I feel as if I should tell, but then that would be really mean, it just makes me cringe that lots of people do this. Ps: I am defiantly not putting that club on my EC.
Doesn’t sound like she lied to me. She put all the stuff she did, even if she wasn’t very involved, no?
Maybe she will go into Marketing or Public Relations.
Just because she put all of that information into her application, does not mean that it actually made a difference to the admissions committee. So stop worrying about it.
Concentrate on being your own best applicant when your turn comes.
I wouldn’t say anything. It does not seem as if she lied. Padded her resume with activities she wasn’t rally engaged in, maybe. But this is what the guidance counselor letter and the teacher rec letters are for–to help the adcoms assess how serious and genuine an applicant is. “Reporting” this would only make you look bad.
As you go through college, and later in life, you’ll see many instances when people get credit that they don’t really deserve. It happens, so try to learn to not be affected by it. As @happymomof1 says, work on being the best person that you can be. This might include being generous in praising people who really do deserve it, and just ignoring the ones who don’t.