So I’m freaking out a bit here. I submitted my UC application to Berkeley, Irvine and Davis. I included my high school and community college grades but I did not include my grades from a foreign University I was enrolled at as part of a gap year program. Most of the courses I took there were non-transferable to all but a few U.S. schools, and the whole college aspect of the program was honestly kind of an afterthought to people like me who weren’t getting transferable credits. So I explained on the UC app that I spent a gap year in a foreign country, but I decided not to include my enrollment at the university thinking the admissions people would simply never ask and never know about it. Big mistake.
Clearly I’m in huge trouble if they find out that I withheld this information. Now that I’m signed up on the UC Irvine MyAdmission page where the admissions people can message me with questions, I’m afraid they’ll ask what exactly I was doing on my gap year and find out about the university. If they do ask and I tell them the truth, my application gets dropped for academic dishonesty. So what do I do? Do I lie and avoid telling them what I was really doing? How likely are they to even ask in the first place? I feel like a complete moron for not just including the information on the app, but I can’t go back now. I’ve worked so hard to get good grades at community college for the past two years and it could all be wasted if I get caught for this terrible decision.