Student Reveals That Stanford Rescinded College Offer Months After Due To A ‘Lie’ On Her Application

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She was left distraught after learning that a simple embellishment on her college application had cost her a place at Stanford.

"This high schooler in the state of Washington just had their offer to Stanford rescinded for lying about the hour count on their extracurricular activity section," Brandon explained.

He pointed out that while this may be good news for students on Stanford's waitlist who may now have an opportunity to attend the school due to someone's offer being rescinded, the student who this happened to was left upset by the entire ordeal.

For a few of her different extracurriculars, a lot of the hours that she put down on the application were looked into thoroughly by the university back at the beginning of the year when they were initially reviewing her application. However, the school didn't get an answer from the people they'd contacted back when they first inquired.

"A lot of her extracurriculars looked impressive, so it's not a surprise that Stanford still went ahead and offered her admission," Brandon continued.

"But one of the activities that she had placed on her list was volunteering at a daycare for children with special needs.
For that specific activity, she had to put that she had been working there 12 hours a week for 32 weeks per year. When Stanford contacted the daycare, they learned that the student was only a summer volunteer and did 12 weeks a year for 4 hours at a time. Once Stanford learned about the lie, they immediately revoked her application.

The best way to avoid this kind of situation is to avoid lying or embellishing the truth on an activity section for a college application since there are easy ways for a school to verify that information, and once they verify it, then it becomes a huge mess. In a follow-up video, Brandon shared tips for students who are worried about colleges thinking they're lying about their extracurricular hour count.

https://www.yourtango.com/self/stanford-rescinded-students-acceptance-lied-application

Good.

Stop lying on applications.

Parents: set a good example for your kids.

[Anonymous]

A lot of people embellish hours.
Difference btw 2 and 3 hours a week? If you include travel time…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is fabricated by the guy (Tineo college prep consulting) to get TikTok clicks….

This. I think the same thing and here is why:

If she’d been accepted to Stanford, everyone would have known. Her friends, the school, family, jobs, friends of parents, etc. months later if it was rescinded, she’d likely tell no one why. Too embarrassing and reputation ruining. Instead, by revealing this and allowing it to be public, everyone who thought she was going there but changed her mind or couldn’t afford it or whatever would now be able to suspect or know it was her.

This did not happen.

[Anonymous]

I bet they found some other suspicious stuff too but that was the easiest one to prove. Hopefully the ac’s are realizing these kids apps are too good to be true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think Stanford must have some kind of trained anti-fraud investigators on their admissions team. 20 years ago when I applied to Stanford Law I got a call from the head of admissions asking about why I had listed myself as “valedictorian” of my college class when my college didn’t do rankings. I was so panicked. My college had selected me as the graduation speaker from the top 5 GPAs (so I was told) and in my mind, giving the college commencement speech was being “valedictorian,” but I guess that was a misrepresentation. I had them talk to the dean of students at my college to verify that I was the commencement speaker. But that was a very sobering experience and since then I have been excruciatingly honest on all applications.

You guess?

At the time, I thought that “valedictorian” just meant the person who gives the speech (which I did). I didn’t realize it would be seen as a misrepresentation. I didn’t write down “first in the class” or anything like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is fabricated by the guy (Tineo college prep consulting) to get TikTok clicks….

This. I think the same thing and here is why:

If she’d been accepted to Stanford, everyone would have known. Her friends, the school, family, jobs, friends of parents, etc. months later if it was rescinded, she’d likely tell no one why. Too embarrassing and reputation ruining. Instead, by revealing this and allowing it to be public, everyone who thought she was going there but changed her mind or couldn’t afford it or whatever would now be able to suspect or know it was her.

This did not happen.

but she only told this guy, who blabbed to the world. I believe it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will admit that my kid struggled how to write in hours for activities because the way they ask never allowed for odd situations.

Example, my kid was on a hackathon team that would practice once per week for 90 minutes and then enter 3-5 competitions that were 48 hours straight on a weekend.

I can’t remember how it was handled, but the application doesn’t make it easy and you don’t want to waste characters in explaining your hours.

Still easy to calculate.

The "Stanford reject" lied. Not hard to say 4 hours/week for 12 weeks. She said 12 hours/week for 32 weeks. Huge difference. She lied.

Also for a hackathon team, the AO will have an idea what that involves. You do your best to calculate it. But the "SR" outright lied, why? Because it worked for getting admission. Had they not verified, it was impressive enough to get admission that's why people lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will admit that my kid struggled how to write in hours for activities because the way they ask never allowed for odd situations.

Example, my kid was on a hackathon team that would practice once per week for 90 minutes and then enter 3-5 competitions that were 48 hours straight on a weekend.

I can’t remember how it was handled, but the application doesn’t make it easy and you don’t want to waste characters in explaining your hours.

Agree. Is this even real?

What are the chances that the person at the former workplace was lying on the phone? Lots of people would be jealous of a student getting into Stanford…

Uh. I suppose a deranged person might be, but it wouldn't be right to assume this would be a common reaction.

Seriously, that’s nuts to go right to thinking a staff person would lie out of envy. I used to write recommendations and confirm volunteer hours for HS and college kids as a non-profit employee. I was always so thrilled and happy when one of “my” kids was successful in whatever they were trying to do.

Also suspicious that this article may be fiction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is fabricated by the guy (Tineo college prep consulting) to get TikTok clicks….

This. I think the same thing and here is why:

If she’d been accepted to Stanford, everyone would have known. Her friends, the school, family, jobs, friends of parents, etc. months later if it was rescinded, she’d likely tell no one why. Too embarrassing and reputation ruining. Instead, by revealing this and allowing it to be public, everyone who thought she was going there but changed her mind or couldn’t afford it or whatever would now be able to suspect or know it was her.

This did not happen.

but she only told this guy, who blabbed to the world. I believe it.

He claims she allowed him to post about it. 0% chance this is real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will admit that my kid struggled how to write in hours for activities because the way they ask never allowed for odd situations.

Example, my kid was on a hackathon team that would practice once per week for 90 minutes and then enter 3-5 competitions that were 48 hours straight on a weekend.

I can’t remember how it was handled, but the application doesn’t make it easy and you don’t want to waste characters in explaining your hours.

Agree. Is this even real?

What are the chances that the person at the former workplace was lying on the phone? Lots of people would be jealous of a student getting into Stanford…

Not likely. the applicant outright lied. 48 hours per year (12*4) is very, very, very different than 382 hours per year (32*12).

[Anonymous]

They go on to become Elizabeth Holmes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will admit that my kid struggled how to write in hours for activities because the way they ask never allowed for odd situations.

Example, my kid was on a hackathon team that would practice once per week for 90 minutes and then enter 3-5 competitions that were 48 hours straight on a weekend.

I can’t remember how it was handled, but the application doesn’t make it easy and you don’t want to waste characters in explaining your hours.

I was going to post something like this. My kid did a service activity that was sometimes just a couple of hours a week and at other times was over 40 hours a week (in the summers) and it was very hard to try to be accurate on the common app.

[Anonymous]

Employers will also fire people who cheat on their CPE. Facts.

No one wants to associate with people who lack personal integrity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was there a reason she was so specific? I mean, she volunteered-- cannot she just say "volunteered at daycare on a regular basis"?
She still did the work and did a good thing, just not as much.

Just not as much. Yeah...like approximately 10% of what she claimed. That's not embellishment. That's straight up lying.

You can't mistake that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is fabricated by the guy (Tineo college prep consulting) to get TikTok clicks….

1000% click harvesting IMO.

How many DESERVING apps does Stanford receive? My guess is alot. You think someone is calling all the references?
I call bs.