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<p>Because little awards and activities don’t make enough impact on your application that one made up accomplishment can do you any good. Those that do have the potential to make a difference can be easily looked up, at least here in the U.S.
International admissions of course is much trickier.</p>
<p>It’s so entertaining how often I used to catch posters on CC who pose themselves as high school juniors, while also claiming to have awards that are only only to seniors. You would think that people are smarter than that :rolleyes:</p>