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Anonymous wrote:Why would they check this AFTER accepting her? That doesn't make sense

Sometimes friends who learn of a classmates acceptances make anonymous calls to report such falsifications.

I genuinely hope this post is as fake as the OP's.

Honestly, I don't really blame the kids for wanting to report the kids who everyone knows just blatantly lied. So many kids work so hard and are honest, it is really aggravating to see the cheaters prosper.

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

Travel time is legit. If you have to drive an hour to volunteer, that's 2 hours out of your day when you could have been doing something else. During COVID I remember kids had to travel really far to get time on ice, fields, pools, etc to practice, otherwise they'd have had to quit the sport. The time traveling is a part of the process. Just like kids who mention how far they travel to go to a specific school.

There really should be more guidance on how to answer this though to help get more uniformity.

Hmmm. We were told not to include travel time, bc everyone has to "travel" to do a variety of activities. It doesn't count as the actual activity.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would they check this AFTER accepting her? That doesn't make sense

Sometimes friends who learn of a classmates acceptances make anonymous calls to report such falsifications.

I genuinely hope this post is as fake as the OP's.

Honestly, I don't really blame the kids for wanting to report the kids who everyone knows just blatantly lied. So many kids work so hard and are honest, it is really aggravating to see the cheaters prosper.

First of all, how would they "know"? How many applications have you seen other than your own kids?

Second of all, you damned well SHOULD blame them. It's not their job, especially since they are just speculating. It's bitter, destructive, and for those that believe in karma, destined to come back to them x10. While I have no evidence, I doubt such behavior influences adcoms much, especially from anonymous teenagers.

I am not defending lies, or even embellishment, but anyone who has done this - it is DISGRACEFUL.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would they check this AFTER accepting her? That doesn't make sense

Sometimes friends who learn of a classmates acceptances make anonymous calls to report such falsifications.

I genuinely hope this post is as fake as the OP's.

Honestly, I don't really blame the kids for wanting to report the kids who everyone knows just blatantly lied. So many kids work so hard and are honest, it is really aggravating to see the cheaters prosper.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would they check this AFTER accepting her? That doesn't make sense

If I read this correctly, they didn't. She submitted the application. They sent out checks to various references in her application including the school she said she volunteered at. The school did not reply in the window during which they asked and so Stanford took her at her word and sent her an acceptance. After the acceptance, the school finally replied and they saw the completely misrepresented hours and realized that she had made a small summer volunteer opportunity (of 48 hours) into a major volunteer activity (384 hours).

The difference between 12 hours/wk @ 32 weeks and 4 hours/wk @ 12 weeks is HUGE. This isn't an embellishment. That would be 4 hours/week at 16 weeks or 6 hours/week at 12 weeks. But this is complete and downright dishonesty and really shows that this candidate has a real lack of integrity and a candidate that a school of good repute like Stanford does not want. She got what she deserved and now a more deserving candidate from the wait list will get the opportunity.

Anonymous wrote:Why would they check this AFTER accepting her? That doesn't make sense

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Why would they check this AFTER accepting her? That doesn't make sense

Sometimes friends who learn of a classmates acceptances make anonymous calls to report such falsifications.

I genuinely hope this post is as fake as the OP's.

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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.

Say a student volunteers at a food bank all year. She volunteers 4 hours a week during school years but during summers (freshman summer, sophomore summers and junior summer) she volunteers 12 hours a week. How should she input this in common App? Does she average the hours per week for 12 months?

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Anonymous wrote:Why would they check this AFTER accepting her? That doesn't make sense

Sometimes friends who learn of a classmates acceptances make anonymous calls to report such falsifications.

Anonymous wrote:Why would they check this AFTER accepting her? That doesn't make sense