@Jelloshozz I think the question was, how did you actually obtain the ability to view his common app?
@MotherOfDragons
A thing like this is very very big in an Indian school like very very big.
Last year a guy participated(only participated) in an Olympiad and his name was mentioned in the school magazine.
So if a guy had won an Olympiad medal, it would have been a very big thing for the school and people would’ve probably known about it.
I did, the guy stopped replying to my messages.
@MITer94
I was helping him figure out CommonApp.
There are some schools whose honor codes do not allow a person to remain silent when a person witnesses dishonesty.
Note also that it’s not the individual’s job to prove the wrongdoing, it’s a question of reporting the wrongdoing and allowing the person in charge to determine what course to follow.
Something tweeted by an actual college admissions officer: https://twitter.com/pomonajoel/status/539558698142552064
Your the worst of the worst. So you were helping either a close friend, or an acquaintance, or someone who trusted you enough to show you their common app, and you were looking at this with evil intent to try and disparage them. As others have said, you are jealous of this individual and will do everything in your power to try and discredit them. As someone who is intimately familiar with the jealousies evident in your society, it is behavior we in the US find despicable. The society you grow up in shares salaries openly in business offices. Why? Because it is a society jealous of each other. Don’t come on here and try to have us make you feel better about your petty jealousies. Go and take a look at the citizens of your country who are climbing the walls of the test center to provide answers to the questions for your countrymen taking the doctors exams. If anything, we in the US should question whether an SAT score achieved in your country is even achieved honorably.
I think you’ve crossed the line from “Interested in getting the truth out there” well into “Vendetta/Stalkerish” behavior.
@Jelloshozz “Figure out Common App?” As in how to fill it out?
You know him really well, but he stopped replying to your messages, so you asked his friends, teachers, even sister. Seems like there are more issues of trust at hand…
If you know him really well then stop trying to message him and talk to him face-to-face. It seems ludicrous to me that he would ask for your help in filling out the Common App and then lie about his activities in front of you. It also seems unlikely that a classmate who can’t complete the Common App without your assistance would be going to Harvard.
The chances some kid in India got a likely letter are slimmer than in the US. Not counting practices for recruited athletes, it’s pretty tough in the US to get one from a tippy top and depends on plenty of factors. What school sent him one and did you see it?
Too much here doesn’t make enough sense. It’s hard to believe he faked school ECs and claimed he got some olympiad honor (what olympiad, what level?,) the GC didn’t mention those, and some tippy top went gaga.