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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]No. But if you claim something you didn’t do and get into a selective college your peers or their parents are likely to call the school and tell them[/b].  Kids get rescinded this way.  There are only so many Ivy slots, and some parents are cutthroat to the extreme. [/quote]

Well who would be dumb enough to tell their peers that they are lying on their college applications? [/quote]

Most kids. [/quote]

Never happened ever. [/quote]

Happened at TJ last year. A kid apparently lied about race and didn’t hide the fact.  Also was admitted to a top 20 ED and kept an Ivy app in.  And told people.  Was then accepted at the Ivy. It was all over the TJ Vents and student FB pages and the big school scandal. Droves of kids and parents of kids denied by the Ivy were calling and complaining about the ED app. And calling the ED school and complaining about misrepresenting race.

It’s unclear whether the Ivy officially rescinded. But the kid did not end up there and it was clearly the first choice.   Not sure what happened with the ED school.

Never underestimate the lack of discretion displayed by kids hanging out with friends.

So, that’s once lying about apps was called out by “friends”. [/quote]

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