<p>It may be dishonest, but it’s not perjury to lie on a medical school application.</p>
<p>I would note that they want you to report audited classes, but they have no impact on calculated GPA, so I don’t really see the downside of reporting it.</p>
<p>I sincerely doubt, thumper, that all dropped courses are on official college transcripts. If you sign up for a class and drop it a week later, I doubt that would show. That could make for a very busy transcript, but I would imagine that most schools allow a certain time period where it would not even reflect a drop. After that time period, probably different for each school, the dropped course would reflect on the transcript as a withdrawal. Not a single dropped course showing up on my transcripts. Then again, it’s been a really long time since I’ve gone to school. Thank God.</p>
<p>My point, laughwithme, is to take everything you read from people such as us with a grain of salt. Sometimes we’re dead on, sometimes we’re dead wrong. If nothing else, it certainly gives you a good basis on which to review the college’s application rules and gives you some specific questions to ask the admissions office. Of course, every now and then even the admissions offices are wrong about their own policies!</p>
<p>Actually med school applicants sign an legal affirmation on their application saying that they are complying with all the instructions for the AMCAS application (which includes reporting all college coursework taken or attempted) on penalty of perjury. </p>
<p>So, yeah, lying on your application is perjury. And the penalty–any acceptances get revoked and you’re not allowed to reapply to a US med school. If you have already matriculated, you’re expelled with prejudice and may not matriculate anywhere else. And if you’ve received your MD degree–that gets revoked as well.</p>
<p>I think for med school hopefuls, jail time would be preferable.</p>
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<p>That sounds WAY too Big-Brotherish to me. Are they also going to demand your Amazon book-purchase list to verify you haven’t been teaching yourself material ahead of time?</p>
<p>Two ways around this requirement without actually leaving the country:</p>
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<li><p>Find an online AP chemistry class (or whatever course it was) for high school credit – this will cover at least the first semester of college material.</p></li>
<li><p>Hire an online “homework tutor” from India to help your son work through the textbook and prepare and evaluate test questions. Don’t they have top graduates over there happy to work for $10-15 a hour?</p></li>
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And don’t forget the private college counselors, who package the students and might even write their essays (or at least edit them so many times that they are essentially the counselor’s and not the student’s work)! </p>
<p>Even at the high school level, I wonder about classes on transcripts. Some places allow one to retake a course and only the retaken course grade shows on the transcript and counts, whereas in other systems both grades (original and retaken) are on the transcript.</p>
<p>I believe that the most important point is missing in discussion. The only opinion that counts is opinion of Adcoms of Med. Schools. Anybody has experience/knowledge how they will look at it? If not, I would contact them directly. My D. has contacted Adcoms of Med. Schools that she was applying to. they were very helpful and quick with responses, although she was in a process of applying.</p>
<p>Our opinions, including mine are irrelevant.</p>