<p>if there's no actual title to the awards, i doubt colleges will care</p>
<p>and plus, everything he said was mostly true, just reworded to sound better</p>
<p>i mean he made $15, that's like a $14 profit</p>
<p>some printing business go out of business so that's like negative profit (or breaking even at best), so he's profiting more than them technically</p>
<p>"You could report his statement as a fraud and get him what he deserves..."</p>
<p>The only thing he deserves is a reward. He turned his crappy achievements into some really awesome sounding ones without lying. </p>
<p>There's no point in reporting the truth...</p>
<p>Normally, I would say report it; however, this case is probably not worth the trouble. His additions probably won't help him and it might even hurt him if people think too negatively of him so obviously trying to stretch the truth. Colleges also ask for specific information on awards and commitments (positions served, hours worked, years, organization/business, etc). Unless he fabricates these facts, just leave it as someone trying to feel better about their work.</p>
<p>You'd report the truth?... And what additions!?! CC bugs the hell out of me some times...</p>
<p>I really don't think that this is severe enough to report, besides, I don't think one has to dig very deep to see that he's exagerating a little. The whole 'baby sitting business' is pretty obvious, I mean, what kind of a business could one make out of babysitting, without just babysitting. Colleges will probably catch a bit of this and call him on it in the interview, after which they'd probably start taking the rest of his application with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>I'd say the two businesses will work against him because it's pretty obvious that he is exaggerating or making stuff up there. No high school student would just start two enterprises and if he really did, colleges would expect the topic to come up at other places in the app too (in a rec or the short essay about his most significant EC, for example).</p>
<p>Anyway, congrats to your friend for his creative skills. If he had been my friend a year ago, I would have paid him to patch my own resume. A win-win situation for both of us: a better resume for me and another activity that he can include in his own.</p>
<p>OP: Leave him be. His rewordings are so obvious that I'd be laughing at them if I were an adcom and if such things weren't probably really common. I don't know what people are talking about here saying he turned his crappy achievements into things that sound better. They really don't. They sound like, um, what they are - a slacker trying to gloss himself over. That's not at all attractive. He doesn't even score any cleverness points for glossing over with any skill whatsoever. Your friend is no Frank Abignail Junior, nor is he a politician in the making (unless he learns how to stretch the truth a lot better than that). He'll get what's coming to him in the form of college rejections. </p>
<p>Everybody else: The crapiness with which this friend attempts to better his extracurricular/academic image is what separates this from good marketing. Come on. You don't actually think he makes himself look attractive here, do you? When there are hundreds of kids trying to pull themselves up like this, they stop getting any ambition points and start getting stupidity points.</p>
<p>Well he did not lie but fact is...most people do it to an extent and at least in this case it does not seem great. Does it make it look better, yes to the naked eye. But when you look more closely, printing business, WTH? That makes no sense. And babysitting business, um er babysitting. The debating seems like perfectly good marketing. The only dangerous thing here is the Spanish stuff. He could get in trouble for it.</p>
<p>Someone above said that this wouldn't be an ethics issue... I actually think it would. "9. Ranked state-wide," I think, is not really a true statement because a ranking involves numbers (ie 5th in state), and as far as I know honorable mention has nothing to do with rankings (other than that you didn't qualify to be given an exact placement). "7. Part of state-ranked team and awarded sportsmanship for six years in row," grammatically, pretty obviously implies that he won the sportsmanship award and not the team - he isn't just making it "sound" like he won it, he's actually saying that he did. My point is that not only does he portray himself dishonestly, but some of his statements might even qualify as blatant lies. Also, reiterating the above, the stuff about Spanish might get him in trouble, and his accomplishments in business are pretty obviously exaggerated. </p>
<p>In short, unless you're truly concerned about your friend's future, I wouldn't bother, seeing as it's none of your business and he'll most likely get what he deserves anyway.</p>
<p>Ya... the list seems obviously exaggerated (most people put actual names of awards instead of "state wide"). Babysitting BUSINESS!!! lol, ya..... Unless you REALLY want to help him, I'd just stay out of it. They are pretty lame fabrications.</p>
<p>lol, who would tell on them anyway?</p>
<p>If it's not enough to make or break you, then colleges wont verify it.</p>
<p>I think you should tell ur friend....either to restate or remove stuff from his application...i came across it as well, and it is annoying :@</p>
<p>who cares...you got to do what you got to do....but i still hate him for that..</p>
<p>First of all, that's quite funny. We all need some stories like this once in a while.
Why don't you just laugh at the situation and tell people as jokes?
That should make people happy. lol
Besides, if you think that is cheating, just give it a rest. That's at least funny.
Some people cheat on AP exams, class finals, rigged class elections, whatever hell they can think of. Your friend is quite cute on the cheating aspect lol
The college admissions officers can probably tell. Just laugh at his rejection letters and make a funny story out of it to entertain some of your friends later.</p>
<p>That's my advice. I think it works fine.</p>
<p>Lol don't be so fast to think he'll be denied. The only reason you guys can tell that the resume is a bit embellished is because he told you. You're all far from expert, lie-sniffing college admissions officers, and you highly overestimate their abilities. From a glance you can see this kid sounds impressive, and you'd have no reason to suspect that he/she is lying. </p>
<p>I think he'll be the one laughing when he gets an acceptance letter.</p>
<p>You guys fricking suck!!!</p>
<p>His friend might potentially take up the place of a genuine qualified applicant. Parkrunner, go out him. Tell the counselor or just "casually" mention it to the teachers!</p>
<p>Lmao... Sad...</p>
<p>You just hate your friend, I think you have some issues. I think you need to go to a psychiatrist and talk about it. Seriously, as long as I have been here you have been competing with your "friend".</p>
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<p>I think that shows what your friend was doing well enough so that you don't need to worry about anything.</p>
<p>People should not exaggerate their resumes. However, how did you come by that long, detailed list of your friend's EC's, and how much time did you spend writing that post? I'm not sure that fixating on his game will do much for you. Just my $.02.</p>