Student Reveals That Stanford Rescinded College Offer Months After Due To A ‘Lie’ On Her Application

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

What’s most suspicious about the story, unfortunately, is that Stanford bothered to check. I wish they would. All schools should.

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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.

In this case, it wasn't the teens, it was 'old people' that are taking this at face value and arguing about it here.

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

What’s most suspicious about the story, unfortunately, is that Stanford bothered to check. I wish they would. All schools should.

Team Fake News. A rescinded application would likely be due to additional, possibly more egregious embellishments.

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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"This high schooler in the state of Washington just had their offer to Stanford rescinded for lying about the hour count on their extracurricular activity section," Brandon explained.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for students on Stanford's waitlist who may now have an opportunity to attend the school due to someone's offer being rescinded, the student who this happened to was left upset by the entire ordeal.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.

Sure. Whether you lie or not, keep it generic enough so they can't verify (I don't think they do). I don't think any college is going to consider "Worked at John Doe special needs day care, 12 hours a week, 50 weeks" to be a superior EC to "Worked at a local special needs day care, 12 hours a week, 50 weeks". In the first case, all it takes is a google search to find them and call them. You won't even know about it. In the latter, they'll have to reach out to you first and you can execute your backup plan (e.g. deposit at your second choice school until you're sure you are through at 1).

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Anonymous wrote:They go on to become Elizabeth Holmes

Or Elizabeth Warren

Or Liz Cheney.

Or Lizard People

Or Wooden Boys

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Stunned so many people think this is real

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Anonymous wrote:Good for Stanford.

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

Yep this. They were implicated by the Varsity Blues scandal so spare me the “good for Stanford” BS.

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Anonymous wrote:Stunned so many people think this is real

Gullible

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Anonymous wrote:Stunned so many people think this is real

Think that it's real or wish it was real.

This place... if I could turn schadenfreude into nickels...

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Anonymous wrote:Stunned so many people think this is real

Think that it's real or wish it was real.

This place...if I could turn schadenfreude into nickels...

We would all have enough money to pay colleges full price…

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Anonymous wrote:These stupid volunteering should be excluded, it should be based on test scores, grades and things related to the target major e.g. building a business or selling computer programs at the level on a college graduate. Volunteering is stupid and unrelated.

Riiiight. Because, if you can't get away with lying about it, why include it? Stick to what you can buy, I guess.

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

What’s most suspicious about the story, unfortunately, is that Stanford bothered to check. I wish they would. All schools should.

Many do. Brown does. Selects at random for a thorough check, but may consider for all or do more if suspicious.

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This is probably true for nearly all their applicants. It’s just that admissions doesn’t have the time and resources to personally call and verify activities and hours for every extracurricular on every application received

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Anonymous wrote:These stupid volunteering should be excluded, it should be based on test scores, grades and things related to the target major e.g. building a business or selling computer programs at the level on a college graduate. Volunteering is stupid and unrelated.

Riiiight. Because, if you can't get away with lying about it, why include it? Stick to what you can buy, I guess.

Says someone who has bought everything for their kids-- fake ECs, fake disabilities and wonders why their "straight A" kid (who is give 20 hours to complete an exam) scores a 1200 on the SAT.

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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.

You have to enter in the approximate hours and weeks in the common app activities section.

And it is surprising hard to do based on the way it is formatted. I don't recall exactly how it read when we did it, but it makes you give an average per week over a year, but most activities are not year long or weekly and make no sense under the format. Plus, if you do something mostly in the summer, but also a month before and few months after, and holiday breaks, then it also done's fit the format nicely. Also, if they ask the place where volunteering happened, they will give the hours there and may not include the commute time, which is a lot for some kids and a big part of scheduling, especially for athletes who have to travel a lot, or people who volunteer at rural locations. There is no where on the app to explain these naunces. It's not as straight forward as you'd expect because you don't get to type in a specific accurate answer.