forged letters of recommendation?

Columbia2002
Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:43:51 +0000

One of my friends decided that it would be fine to make some “corrections” on one of the teacher recommendations. She even forged the signature in photoshop and everything looks amazing.

The problem is that I really think that she is going to get caught even though the spelling and sentence structure corrections were minor. Let alone the fact that I never even got to my rec. letters, I think hers was simply amazing and was not really worth the risk . What do you think? I am telling her not to do it. I am sure there is a mechanism that schools use to verify things like that. maybe they even send scans to the teachers, who knows; they need to scan everything they receive anyway.



I call either flame or BS. This just doesn’t make sense. Why is the friend telling you? Why didn’t the friend just ask the teacher to fix what seems to be only spelling and grammar errors? Why would the signature need to be forged if the signature is already on the letter and can just be scanned/copied? Why isn’t the teacher sending the letters directly to the school?



Then again, it could mean that her (potential) admission gets rescinded when they find out or her degree could be revoked.



Can anyone cite an example of a college degree being revoked because someone perpetrated a fraud in their application to get into the school? I highly doubt that would ever happen.