@preppedparent, your response is sad to me - 99.9% are honest and looking to do the right thing - the .1% that is broken will remain that way, but it won’t change what the rest do…
As an example, my twin DD’s could have exaggerated and or lied about EC’s on the Common Application; would it have caught the eye of a school they weren’t accepted to - maybe, but they themselves would never have done it.