Student Reveals That Stanford Rescinded College Offer Months After Due To A ‘Lie’ On Her Application

[Anonymous]

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

Do you understand the difference between 48 hours total and 384 hours total?

This isn't embellishment. It isn't a mistake. It's a GIANT lie and complete misrepresentation of her commitment.

It would be the equivalent of saying my 4 weeks of Duolingo practice is actually 4 years of fluent Spanish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Do you understand the difference between 48 hours total and 384 hours total?

This isn't embellishment. It isn't a mistake. It's a GIANT lie and complete misrepresentation of her commitment.

It would be the equivalent of saying my 4 weeks of Duolingo practice is actually 4 years of fluent Spanish.

Yeah, I think it's funny that lie is in quotes in the header.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well cry me a river.

Exactly. And the disgusting article quoted doesn't say to actually tell the truth. It just cautions to lie more realistically and have your lie be less detectable. Despicable.

[Anonymous]

I am suspicious of the story but am intrigued by PPs who think it’s true but the lie is somehow excusable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good. All schools should be verifying ECs, non profit productivity, busineses, and awards on applications. Too many kids -and their parents- are ok with lying to get ahead.

And waste real money on bullsh*t? Why not get rid of this nonsense from the evaluation process?

[Anonymous]

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

Probably.. the subliminal message here is "pay us, and we will help you lie better"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for Stanford.

Stanford/administrator/faculty get caught "cheating" many times. Do they get rescinded? probably not.

The "whataboutist" has joined the conversation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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"This high schooler in the state of Washington just had their offer to Stanford rescinded for lying about the hour count on their extracurricular activity section," Brandon explained.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

Or.. don't be specific in your EC section.. "Worked at local food banks - 10 hours a week; Web design work for a local nonprofit - 20 hrs a week during summer". Let Stanford verify that!

[Anonymous]

This is fake news horse puckey

"In a TikTok video, a college prep content creator named Brandon recounted the story that was told to him by the unnamed teenage girl"

Stop believing people who post BS on DCUM.

Use your brain, or borrow a friend's!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They go on to become Elizabeth Holmes

Or Elizabeth Warren

Or Liz Cheney.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They go on to become Elizabeth Holmes

Or Elizabeth Warren

Or Liz Cheney.

Or Lizard People

[Anonymous]

I'm on team Fake News. No way Stanford admitted her if they were this suspicious of parts of her application.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is fake news horse puckey

"In a TikTok video, a college prep content creator named Brandon recounted the story that was told to him by the unnamed teenage girl"

Stop believing people who post BS on DCUM.

Use your brain, or borrow a friend's!

NP. I'm an Old Person who doesn't use TikTok. I do not understand why teens take so much from TikTok at face value.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

But you did so well on the LSAT, you got into Stanford? Fascinating. As a terrible test taker myself, I still would have understood the definition of valedictorian. You did what too many kids and parents do to get into competitive schools- you lied. You exaggerated. I’m glad you learned your lesson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Or.. don't be specific in your EC section.. "Worked at local food banks - 10 hours a week; Web design work for a local nonprofit - 20 hrs a week during summer". Let Stanford verify that!

The activity section of the Common App requires the following for each activity

- Checkbox for grade level
- Checkbox for Timing of participation (__During school year __During school break __All year)
- Hours spent per week ___
- Weeks spent per year ___

If the story in OP is true (which I doubt), the student should simply have checked "During school break" and then correctly completed hours and weeks.