<p>Does Yale rescind acceptances when they find that there was fraud involved in the application. I'm not talking big fraud, more like enhancement, saying you were captain of a team or head of school organization when you weren't. How do colleges usually find out, they can't have the time to check every detail of an application. How do they react if they find out that a student has quit all of the activities that got them into college as soon as they receive their acceptance. Would the student's school actually send that info to Yale or do they usually just ignore it. Does Yale even care?</p>
<p>I’ve been wondering the same thing. I’m editor of the school yearbook and basically the entire book is being thrown on me because no one else will do anything. I feel like stepping down since there’s no way I’m doing the whole thing myself (again!) especially considering it’s my senior year and I’m going to be out of school in three weeks. I just don’t want to jeopardize any of my college stuff since I’ve worked so hard to get to where I am.</p>
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<p>@OP - You are an awful human being. You played this game and you won. It’s not going to work out for you in real life. I hope I never have to meet you.</p>
<p>@Thickfreakness - I can understand your situation more. That’s a really tough position to be in, and I would say that if you still love yearbook, you should stay on. If not…quit?</p>
<p>See, the thing is that I used to love yearbook. But when I’m forced to do everything, it ceases to be fun because I no longer have time to spend actually playing with the design and enhancing the book; I just becomes me working my a** off to get everything done in time. And honestly I think it’s pretty unfair of my moderator to expect a 4th quarter senior to do all that.</p>
<p>Sorry for high-jacking this thread, but to the OP - remember that there is a final report that must be sent in from your school. So if your GC becomes aware of you quitting everything, then your final report could definitely be a problem.</p>
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<p>Umm…that’s pretty “big fraud” imo and a clear-cut case of lying; there really isn’t much ‘gray’ area to maneuver. Just because you haven’t fraudulently claimed to have cured cancer doesn’t mean anything lesser is acceptable. I hope you’re asking this question hypothetically… </p>
<p>Regardless, I think this is an interesting question and would like to see it answered. OP brings up a valid point in saying that it must be difficult to verify every little detail. How can the admissions people weed out the cheaters from those who play fair?</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s a pretty big lie. That’s like the difference of a member who puts, on average, a couple of hours into the club a week versus the head of the club who has to organize everyone and constantly work at it.</p>
<p>Now to answer your questions. If a person lied about one or two things, it’ll probably slide. I know at my school and probably most others, GCs don’t screen what you write on an application. If you do happen to quit clubs after receiving your acceptance, I highly doubt your school will inform Yale. Generally, a school wants to see its students succeed and will not do anything that would get you rescinded.
But, if a school did send something, Yale probably wouldn’t care either.</p>
<p>Honestly, you should join clubs cuz you like them. I’m still in all of my clubs and i wouldn’t dream of quitting cuz they’re fun and all my friends are in them…
And, it’s not like certain clubs will get you into college anyway. I got into Yale and my clubs are really random and have nothing to do with my academic passions…</p>
<p>personally, i dont think that ur fake or even real position as head of some club got u in in the first place. what DO get u in is if u speak about that position with PASSION in your essays which is hard if impossible to do if the position itself is fake. Also, if u try to make things up and talk about it in your essay, its usually blatantly obvious that what you are saying is fake.</p>
<p>You’d think it would be really tough to lie if your Guidance Counselor writes about your activities in his letter.</p>
<p>I am a Yale alumna & have done alumni interviews for Yale. My suggestion is: Don’t lie on your application. Yes, the Admissions people DO care. Most likely, if you say you were the captain of the football team or head of some organization, someone will ask you about it in detail at the interview. I had people tell me about things that they did or were “passionate” about, but when I dug deeper into the subject, it was obvious that there was some “exaggeration” going on. Yale people are intelligent and you will most likely get caught & then you will be ostracized. If you say you are the head of an athletic team, I think the chances of getting caught are even higher. Besides, heads of the yearbook or the tennis team are honestly, a dime a dozen when it comes to applicants at the top schools (unless you are ranked in the top in the nation at the sport). Find a subject you really love, try to excel at it, or show that you want to excel at it. Be creative, but honest. Most of all, don’t be stupid.</p>
<p>I agree with metronycmom.</p>
<p>It’s the stuff that you can’t lie about that will get you into a school like Yale. The background stuff is good (e.g. Tennis team, newspaper editor), but those types of activities are not sufficient to get into Yale alone. With an RD rate of 5.2% you really need to have something amazing on your application to get in, and those are usually things that can’t be easily fabricated.</p>
<p>I agree with metronycymom. Most of my interviews had discussions related to my ECs. I only talked about activities that I was TRULY INVOLVED IN, and did not mention things that I just did for fluff (nor did I exaggerated the fluff on the com. app.). Also, if my interviewer asked me about a fluff activity, I just said I did it for fun in my spare time and that was it. For the most part, that seemed to work best.</p>
<p>I think this is a hypothetical. I’m not sure that someone who thinks ‘recission’ is a word is very likely to get into yale…</p>