<p>I am reading all these posts and maybe because I am older, it would never have occurred to me to suggest someone outright lie and make up facts for the SAT essay. I actually think unless you are in the habit of lying (without getting caught), it would be stressful to be writing something under the pressure of the clock that I knew was blantantly untrue. To be honest, I question whether some students are just falsely bragging. </p>
<p>I think embellishing a personal experience make sense because no one will ever know if it was true or not. The articles that one person posted as proof that the content is ignored were written 5 years ago, when the SAT first started using the essay so it would be a huge asssumption to believe that they havn’t updated their guidelines since then.</p>