<p>What if someone made up EC's and put them on the application? (ex. president of a school club, etc.)</p>
<p>If discovered you will have your acceptance revoked and perhaps you will be discovered before that in which case no offer of admission will be forthcoming.</p>
<p>Public flogging.</p>
<p>There is no statute of limitations on this. If your lie is not discovered until after you graduate, the school can retract your degree.</p>
<p>Dartmouth states:</p>
<p>**Misrepresentation in Admissions Material **</p>
<p>If a candidate for admission to Dartmouth makes a false statement or submits falsified material in connection with his or her application, and the misrepresentation is discovered after the candidate has been admitted, the offer of admission ordinarily will be withdrawn. If the misrepresentation is discovered after a student has matriculated, the offer of admission normally will be rescinded and the student will be required to leave Dartmouth. If the discovery occurs after a degree has been awarded, the degree normally will be rescinded.</p>
<p>do all colleges find out and revoke you or just one college?</p>
<p>Pretty muche very college from the local cc to the most elite schools frown on fraud, academic dishonesty, and the like. You get caught, your admissions and even your degree will be snatched.</p>
<p>The world of college admissions is really a small one where admission directors and staff all know each other especially in peer insitutions. Remember they go out together on these big college fair tours, they attend confrences together and they do talk about situations that occur at their schools. This situation maybe not person specific but htere have been strange coincidences that will have someone go back to their school to give an application a second look.</p>
<p>Also if a college revokes admission, it may happen after a student has committed to that college and turned down other college offers. A student who lied also may be kicked out of college after their lie is discovered. When they transfer, the student would have to answer questions about why they transferred, and they'd also have to provide information about what they have been doing since graduating from h.s. It would be very hard to provide such info without revealing that they were kicked out of school for lying on their application.</p>
<p>"If the discovery occurs after a degree has been awarded, the degree normally will be rescinded."</p>
<p>Unless, of course, you are rich and powerful. Then you are just publicly shamed--which is either good or bad depending on whether you have a need to get your name in the Washington Post or TV Guide . . . but the degree stays, so you can still be a lawyer or a senator or a movie star or whatever other kind of fantasy you desire. And what about the school and the administrators who preside over these special, non-normal, cases ? Well, let's just say cheating is not only for "cheaters."</p>
<p>Remember that state: the world of college admissions is VERY SMALL. Admissions folks obviously get together all the time and they do swap stories. A lie will follow you like a tail.</p>
<p>if you get caught in one, chances are high that every other school you ever laid your app forms on will know.</p>
<p>It wouldn't take much for an admissions person to google an applicant or an activity listed by an applicant to get a bit of information--any school website lists clubs and officers, most public organizations have websites--cheating can be very easily caught. </p>
<p>Last year, one student at a local high school was caught falsifying information--the university had a question for the college counselor about a couple of the applicants from the school, and in the course of the discussion about the various applicants, asked why none of the counselors' or teachers recommendations referred to an item in one of the applications. Guess why? Guess where the student is? She is at the small, open-entry branch of Ohio State (not the main campus in Columbus, although she lives here), and not at any of the schools she had hoped to go to.</p>
<p>Sometimes I think that some kids put so much effort into trying to game the system, that if they put even half that effort into actually doing some of the activities they would like to claim, they would not need to put the effort into the gaming!</p>
<p>absolutely..... the risks are high..... as per as in the ecs..partt....i small president thing wud do no gud either if not bad ..... ... But bigger lies can get one in trouble</p>
<p>Infact try to be gud at some real stuff..... u never know ..if u fake the president of a debate club and show lacking public speaking skills ...u may be danger</p>
<p>Ok what if you do an activity outside of school but teacher/gc never mentions it?</p>
<p>probably tell the tecaher what u did...and ask her to mention</p>
<p>This question appears a bunch of times and is interesting to me ... becasue, for me, it is so obvious that it is not worth the risk of lying or stretching the truth ... why do I say that. An applicant could include some minor stetches of the truth ... and at a huge risk make virtually no difference in their application. Or they could really improve their chances of admission by adding a whopper EC lie .. and then very easily get nailed because the inconsistency would be quite apparent in the application. It just is not worth the risk in any way. (Final thought ... for me personally, I would never want to think that the thing that pushed me over the hump and into a school was a mispresentation and not my legitimate accomplishments)</p>
<p>I do some interviewing for a LAC, and after having read these threads on CC for the last couple of admissions seasons, when doing my interviews I often like to guide the conversation to things like ECs, because it is what makes each student different and interesting, and I figure that a student should like to talk about these things--it should put a student at ease. It's funny how a student who has embellished or outright lied about what are in reality just small parts of the application picture respond in such a situation. It's a clear give away. And if I ask for the name or contact information for the adult involved....?</p>
<p>I feel so sorry for the kids that put themselves under so much pressure that they feel they need to lie about things, and I also feel sorry that they have not had the pleasure of experiencing the actual things that they create the lies about. The student I referred to in a post above had indicated that she was president of a club that she had started--except that she had not started the club, nor was she the president, the club did not exist although it would have been a nice addition to the school. So I wish she had started the club! And enjoyed it!</p>
<p>Whether or not she had started the club or served as president may or may not have gotten her into the schools of her choice, but the lie definitely kept her out.</p>
<p>all said. i feel the query raised is well answred .lie and face trouble. be honest and if admitted enjoy for life.......</p>
<p>How can an applicant, who makes minor stretches, be at a huge risk?</p>