How do colleges know that I'm not lying about my extracurricular activities?

<p>The funny thing is that its easy to prove as well. You cant lie about community service though, you would need connections. BTW, Colleges love it when your EC’s are strongly associated with your intended major. I know people who got accepted to TOP schools and they’ve partially lied about their EC’s on their application. They put that they were president of a club in our school, yet they asked the actual president of the club for permission to do this. Try not to be obvious though. If both of you are applying to the same school than don’t put that you were both president of that club. Don’t worry about integrity, just do it, but be smart about it.</p>