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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The girl lied on her application. That is resume fraud on the first adult thing she is responsible for, and a clear honor code violation. It is a form of plagiarism. Check out how schools respond to that. It is not for OPs son the straighten this situation out. [/quote]

Not "Plagiarism" but this is certainly an honor code violation at almost any private school.  Kids are supposed to (and are honor bound) to report stuff like this, and allow the school to act.
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The young man's mother says that the young lady has dishonestly misrepresented his activity title and position as hers.

If this is the case, then the young lady has -- at the very least -- lied on her online, personal website resume (though no one - except perhaps her college advisor - knows whether she also submitted that false representation on her college applications).

The young lady may have also violated her high school's honor code.  Thus, the young man is doing exactly what he should do.  He is reporting the lie to the school that they both attend as a violation of that school's honor code.  If it is indeed a violation of the school's honor code, then the school will act accordingly and discipline the young lady in question.  If it does not quite rise to the level of a violation of the school's honor code, then the school will still meet with the young woman and her parents, inform her that they are aware of the misrepresentation (i.e., "the lie"), require her to apologize to the student whose accomplishments she assumed with her lie, and demand that she correct the lie on her resume on the personal website.

In either case, the discipline or admonishment from her school will serve the purpose of hitting home for her the seriousness of lying on one's resume and of possibly violating the school's honor code.

If the school's college counselor reviewed her common application submissions and essays, and knows for a fact that the young woman also made the same misrepresentation on her college applications, then the high school can decide whether or not to contact the universities - or require the young woman to do so - to set the record straight.

The young man has decided on the right course of action in this case, since he does not know with certainty whether the young woman made any misrepresentation on her college application.[/quote]

This is the better approach.[/quote]

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