Embelishing on your application

shoebox10
Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:18:41 +0000

Do you seriously think you’re the only one with a hard life? Just because you had it tough at times does not give you the reason to lie in life. Can you really hold that in your concious? If I knew I got into a school due to lying, it would haunt me for the rest of my life. Even the thought of being caught scares me. Its ridiculous that you think that because you had a rough childhood, you can simply lie your way through life. And there’s a point to which you can exploit your troubles: saying you couldn’t do ECs because of a sick family member and living in “hell” is exploiting it. Lying about ECs you didn’t do is downright wrong.
Besides, to be competative in the EC department, you need a variety of things as well as leadership and continuation. If you list a bunch of things that you “did”, you’re only increasing your chances of getting caught. But if you only list a few, then you’re ECs look weak.
So just stick to your grandmother’s story and try to use it as “because I never did anything before, I want to do stuff now”

Or maybe the adcoms would like to see “because I never did anything, i’m just going to b**** about it, and then make a bunch of stuff up and lie my way through life”
Classy!

PS - would you ever shoplift, simply because you might not get caught? If you say no, then what’s the difference between lying, simply because you might not get caught?