<p>I have a question. I've been President of the Student body for 3 years and now, senior year I lost my election for the 4th year. I was selected to be Secretary unanimously but I just quit because I didn't wanna do it. Would it be very risky (in reality, all morals aside) to check off that I still participated (just as a member, not an officer) in 12th grade?</p>
<p>ALSO, theres a religious organization i've been in since 9th grade, that I'm not in right now. When I get the money, I plan on re-joining but as of now I'm not in it. would it also be too risky to check the 12th grade box as well?</p>
<p>AND</p>
<p>For INTERACT club, I have done at least 300 service hours but only about 150 of them are recorded. can i still say 300 hours or is that not okay?</p>
<p>I don't plan on making up any ECs or making up officer positions, just seeing if its ok to slightly extend the truth? ANYONE?</p>
<p>Ok I know you guys are morally speaking, but technically what are the chances that I get caught? It’s not even wholeheartedly lying, just fabricating. If I gave my teachers who wrote my recs a reccommendatin saying I was in the organizations in 12th grade, so in their recs, if anything, it says that. how else could I get caught?</p>
<p>No, you probably won’t get caught. No matter what anybody else says (“karma will get you”), the truth is that your “exaggeration” probably won’t be noticed. </p>
<p>And you can put 300 hrs if you’ve done 300 hours. It doesn’t have to be recorded to count.</p>
<p>Alright. And if anyone can also answer this for me:</p>
<p>how do i report hours spent doing an activity if, for example, i spend 3 hours per week at meetings for the club and then on select weekends when there are service projects i spend up to 10 hours per week.</p>
<p>I think there is some real risk of being caught on the student council one. Your loss and resignation cd well be mentioned by teacher or counselor on rec. The others probably not. But don’t lie anyway</p>
<p>I agree with Aniger… why risk it anyway? Is one little checkbox going to change your admissions decision? Anyway, do you really want to spend your life wondering if your college acceptances would have been different because of “stretching the truth”?</p>
<p>Alright, the college would be notified of my resignation? Because who’s to say that even t hough I resigned from the officer position, I’m not still a member that participates in fundraisers etc.</p>
<p>How could you be student body president as a freshman, sophomore, junior? More importantly, how do you lose the senior year election after all that? I have a feeling your student council elections are not very competitive…</p>
<p>*class president. I was president of the 9th grade class, then moved up to 10th grade, then 11th and lost to a random “popular kid” in 12th because clearly, it’s a popularity contest.</p>
<p>There is no point in this kind of lying. If the lie is to claim an achievement big enough to significantly boost your admissions chances it can easily be found out. If the lie is so small that no one will bother to check then it’s too trivial to help your admissions chances. So what’s the point?</p>
<p>ok, then would it be better to mention in the additional info that i lost my election in 12th grade, but still helped out with fundraisers? i don’t want the adcoms to see that i’ve been president for 3 years and then suddenly stopped.especially because this has been my most time consuming activity throughout high school</p>
<p>The easiest solution is to list “Student Council” as the activity for all grades and then in the detail box note you were an officer.
Then you avoid the mess of noting you were pres and are no longer pres…</p>
<p>And don’t make excuses in the essay when you write about it…just write you were disappointed that you were’t reelected but given your commitment to student government will continue to be involved even without an official capacity.</p>