Embelishing on your application

wayward_trojan
Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:50:36 +0000

I think we’re getting a little lofty. There is a difference between saying you were at Literature Club every week for three hours when it actually only met monthly for an hour and saying you were president of the club when in fact you were never even a member. Everybody embellishes: it’s the nature of resúmés and applications. Boldfaced lying is a completely different animal and entirely unacceptable. Anybody suggesting that exaggerating a few points is tantamount to fraud needs to be honest with themself and be realistic. That said, if you’re in doubt about a particular item on the application, don’t fudge it - play it safe.