<p>some of people at my school are afraid that if they tell other people where they are applying, they might try to sabotage their chances. I'm just wondering how someone can sabotage another person's chances if that's possible... are people just paranoid or is this something everyone should be worried about?</p>
<p>at the end of last year, we had a college night thing where a bunch of reps from different colleges came to our school and talked about the admissions process. one of the reps, talked about how kids would send in anoymous letters, make calls, send e-mails, etc. with incriminating pictures, links to inapropriate myspaces, etc. in order to prevent their classmates from getting into schools.</p>
<p>I guess they think that if they apply to a certain hard-to-get-into-school, the other person who hears about that school from the that first person might like to apply there too having higher grades? I guess.</p>
<p>eskimogirl, would that kind of backstabbing schemes work?</p>
<p>well, it did in one case. but i hope it doesn't work on a more general basis. i think it all depends on how bad the pictures or whatever the evidence is.</p>
<p>what if you send an email and say nasty things to the adcoms, on behalf of someone else?</p>
<p>my guess would be that they would probably disregard mean remarks without any actually evidence of misconduct on the applicant's part.</p>
<p>Jeez. These scary high school kids. Starting backstabbing way too early. Save your scheming for the pre-med library book hogging at UCLA or JHU.</p>
<p>if like a kid made accusations or something would adcoms or the undergrad admission office take it seriously and call counselors and stuff??</p>
<p>yea it's crazy......</p>
<p>sabotage is waay easy. just get the kid's signature, and send an application withdrawal letter or something, when it's already way past the deadline.
and there's nothing to do about it.
mwahaha</p>
<p>That's awful!</p>
<p>wow, I knew it was intense competition, but not THAT intense! ...</p>
<p>anybody know answer to my question?</p>
<p>A better reason not to tell people where you're applying is simple humility and fraternity. You know it engenders stress and overcompetitiveness, so tell people that you don't want to talk about it because it's the high-pressure equivalent of talking about the size of your male member. You intend to mind your business, maybe get lucky a few places, and will let everyone know where you're going when you make up your mind.</p>
<p>No reason to bring backstabbing into the conversation.</p>
<p>wowser147- i doubt it. unless it were something really outrageous, like lying on your app about race or having been arrested, i doubt the colleges would take it seriously.</p>
<p>thankx eskimogirl!</p>
<p>i didn't tell...
there was this counselor-student college meeting thing
and i was in my GC's group and she suddenly asked everyone where they were applying.... </p>
<p>urrg...</p>
<p>neway. thanks!</p>
<p>the whole idea of backstabbing is disgusting...unless there was something wrong about the person and they hid it, like getting arrested...etc...</p>
<p>These days, competition is way too fierce, and its horrible that people would go through the application process in such a selfish way.</p>