Admissions Officers Are Spilling The Tea On Students Who Got Caught In Ridiculous Lies, And I Can't Believe Anyone Thought They'd Get Away With These

With back-to-school play commencing, person you ever wondered what happens to the radical who blatantly prevarication connected assemblage applications?

Some of them inevitably get caught, and it's decidedly not the champion look for them. In 1 Reddit thread (which you tin spot here), assemblage admissions officers and autarkic assemblage consultants shared the wildest instances of lying they've seen connected an application, and immoderate of these are truthful bad, it's hard not to chuckle a little.

Here are 15 memorable instances of radical who inflated oregon adjacent wholly fabricated their experiences, arsenic told by the pros themselves:

1. "There was an exertion that was talking truthful elegantly astir music, their expected expertise, and erstwhile they submitted a euphony supplement, it got the lowest module standing lol. Don't cognize if that's lying oregon being delusional oregon both. Funny each the same."

–Aggravating_Humor

2. "They submitted a fake 'official' transcript. But they screwed up our mailing address, truthful it was returned to sender. They had the wherewithal to usage the instrumentality code for the schoolhouse they were faking, truthful it was sent backmost to that school's registrar. The registrar reached retired to me, saying, 'Hey, this pupil didn't spell here.'"

–frankenplant

3. "Not an admissions officer, but I enactment with families arsenic an autarkic consultant. A blatantly faked portion of an exertion I've seen is an effort draught wherever each play successful the condemnation was followed by 2 spaces... that's what the older procreation (i.e. parents) was taught with typing."

4. "I utilized to beryllium an admissions officer, and the 1 that is astir communal was erstwhile a pupil would accidental they had nary disciplinary history, but the counselor's missive would accidental oregon connote otherwise."

–coral225

5. "The pupil wrote astir his acquisition successful the womb. While this isn't technically lying, it's beauteous damn wild."

–EmploymentNegative59

6. "It’s not hard to spot done astir 'non-profits.' Perhaps not lying, per se, but if your website looks similar a modular Squarespace tract oregon has 10 officers who are each assemblage seniors, the BS detector is going off."

–FieldOfFutureDreams

7. "I had 1 homeschooled applicant whose mom's transcript reported each As, but the transcripts straight from assemblage assemblage (for dual enrollment) showed Cs and Bs."

8. "There was 1 pupil who had letters of proposal wherever 1 was talking astir however they were the implicit champion pupil successful the world, but the counselor's LOR destroyed the student, calling them the astir immature pupil who cheats connected exams. One idiosyncratic was lying connected this application. I ne'er looked into it due to the fact that they weren't precise competitory successful the end, anyway."

–Aggravating_Humor

9. "I'm a nonrecreational advisor and not a erstwhile AO, but determination are respective instances successful my vocation erstwhile I refused to proceed moving with a student, oregon they refused to proceed moving with me, due to the fact that I would not enactment fabricated information."

10. "I had a pupil constitute an effort astir holding her grandmother's manus portion she died, watching the bosom complaint monitor, and feeling a consciousness of peace. Upon questioning, she was THREE erstwhile her grandma passed. She said she didn't truly retrieve it, but her parent had told her astir it."

–FoolishConsistency17

11. "I had an applicant who enactment down 'University Donor' connected their activities list, indicating they donated $100 to the university. Do they deliberation we don't person entree to this database? Even if it was existent (which it wasn't), decidedly don't enactment that connected the activities list."

–EliteScholarAdvising

12. "Triplets and their relative each successful the aforesaid graduating people astatine a precocious schoolhouse utilized the aforesaid costly autarkic assemblage consultant. She wrote their (bad) effort for them and submitted the aforesaid 1 for each 4 students."

13. "They submitted fake letters of reference. I was suspicious of the email code for 1 recommender, truthful I Googled them to effort and find a antithetic mode to interaction them to verify they really submitted the letter. The idiosyncratic had been dormant for astir 2 years."

–Frankenplant

14. "My dada has reviewed apps for a summertime probe programme before. One feline enactment helium started a nonprofit that helped 800k North Korean refugees found themselves (for reference, there’s 200-300k total)."

–PhilosophyBeLyin

15. And finally, "If you haven’t watched the Varsity Blues ungraded documentary connected Netflix, I highly urge it. These kids lied astir chaotic stuff. The 1 that yet broke the lawsuit wide unfastened was 1 kid saying helium did varsity unit for 4 years astatine precocious school. His precocious schoolhouse didn’t person a unit team… AO thought his app was suspicious, truthful helium called the counsellor to confirm."

–ndg127

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