<p>I really want to go to Exeter. I have this must-have desire, I cannot even explain how much I want to go.</p>
<p>Do you think the admissions officers would notice if I threw in a few more extra-curriculars than I really have on the application? Or added a few more awards?</p>
<p>If you want to attend Exeter badly, you should know that adding anything you can’t defend on your application would put you at risk for losing it all.</p>
<p>Goaliedad is about to step out of his general civility for a post. Please excuse me.</p>
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Get in line with a lot of other kids who have the same feeling.</p>
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Do you think the college admissions officers will notice that you were thrown out of Exeter after they discovered you lied on your application?</p>
<p>If you haven’t noticed, the folks around here (students and parents alike) are a rather honest bunch and work awfully hard for their opportunities. </p>
<p>Not that a few extra awards or ECs mean a hill of beans in the admissions race (they don’t if you’ve studied much), but the though that you’d try that will not engratiate you with many around here.</p>
<p>Goaliedad now returning to his normal civility…</p>
<p>Absolutely DO NOT lie! If you do not have the qualifications or hook (money, legacy, urm, fac kid, athletic recruit-these will help, but not guarantee) to gain acceptance to Exeter, then you need to be realistic and apply not only to Exeter, but to schools that are a match for your assets.</p>
<p>There are many excellent schools that can offer you a comparable education and/or experience that are probably within your reach.</p>
<p>The parents and students on this site will help you find a good match for you, not the person you might pretend to be.</p>
<p>You will find the place that is right for you, but you need to take the high road to get there! :)</p>
<p>Okay, okay, I’ll be honest.</p>
<p>I did not post this just to be told not to do it.</p>
<p>Let’s say, hypothetically, I did lie. How likely is it that an admissions officer would find out?</p>
<p>goaliedad, you spelled ingratiate wrong</p>
<p>@ prosperous: Please find some other place to play the idiot provocateur. There are no vacancies for you here. Check out the Parents Cafe or, better still, some entirely different board. But if you are sincere and really want an answer…you can go to the College Admissions forum and see the answer you posted there to this same question.</p>
<p>@ baseballmom: </p>
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<p>Sorry, but the only time I’m wasting on this ■■■■■ is to see his IP address blocked.</p>
<p>D’yer-I have to take that comment back after reading his/her latest post. It appears he/she does not want advice, just advice on how to LIE!</p>
<p>So, prosperous, now that you’re being “honest”, I have some useful advice for you:</p>
<p>GO AWAY!</p>
<p>This is when I wonder if someone like Prosperous is really a kid.</p>
<p>Prosperous,</p>
<p>you sound like a piece of work! You ask for advice on how to lie, correct an adult’s typo, show no remorse when people advise against lying. </p>
<p>I don’t think Exeter will take you and here’s why: Your attitude will come across in the interview and the essays. Your teachers and school head probably know you are a little slippery and this will come across in their recommendations too. A few activities doesn’t make a difference anyway.</p>
<p>There are some admissions officers and counselors on here who will/might see your post. Also, this is a board of truly honest people who work hard to get where they are. None of them are going to tell you to lie. I had a must-have desire to go to Choate and I got in, and I go there now. But I didn’t lie or cheat to get in. If you want to go there and you have the resources to do it, you can. But you won’t by cheating. First of all, if you have the incentive to cheat and do, then I don’t believe you belong at Exeter, first of all, because there are many people who would have done their application honestly and not gotten in because you put “extra awards” on there. </p>
<p>Your question shouldn’t be “Would they notice?” They might, they might not. Your question should be “Is this OK, or right?” Which it is not.</p>
<p>Wait, I’m sorry. You’re really defending your right to LIE? I second what baseballmom says, because you cannot legitimately receive help from the good people on the site, like many applicants did last year (and I appreciate the advice of everyone here), if you are doing so just to be untruthful on your application.</p>
<p>If you have the incentive to lie on a simple application, you wouldn’t survive at Exeter or boarding schools if you would do the same there - Choate, I know, has EXTREMELY strict policies on cheating and they can find things out VERY quickly.</p>
<p>Last year Exeter expelled a student within the first few weeks of school when it was discovered they had lied regarding an extracurricular on their application.</p>
<p>Exeter is all about academic ability, intellectual curiosity, decency and good character (to paraphrase part of the school’s mission statement). It is not a vocational school for future felons.</p>
<p>“It is not a vocational school for future felons.” Ha ha Olderandwiser- this is why I love this board. I had to gently counsel a friend out of applying to prep school recently. Her child would never have met the “character” criteria. If they do go, I hope that they buy tuition insurance…</p>
<p>Yikes! A Trolllllllllllllllll</p>
<p>@admin/mod: Please delete this thread.</p>
<p>Yeah okay, first of all, I am not a bad kid.</p>
<p>This was never meant to be something serious, until some people started to post some nasty stuff. and jumping to conclusions.</p>
<p>Anyone who actually thought I was going to add some impressive ECs is out of their mind.</p>
<p>Oh, and I competed at the national spelling bee just a few months ago, and maybe I felt a little irked when I saw the word engratiate.</p>
<p>You wouldn’t survive here</p>
<p>@Prepparent - You’ve got it - prosperous is a ■■■■■. I just finished researching his posting history. Here is my case.</p>
<p>A few months there was a thread that started with the posting…
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=348366[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=348366</a>
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<p>Prosperous’ answer was (on a following page)…
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=4192368#post4192368[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=4192368#post4192368</a>
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<p>Seems that prosperous has seen the question he posed before and knows the answer. It would seem that prosperous is just trying to stir the pot with us.</p>
<p>And quite frankly, I don’t care if prosperous WON the national spelling bee, CC is full of misspelled words in posts. If prosperous can’t take the occasional typo, prosperous needs to find a Spelling Bee forum. Excuuuuuse me! (pardon my spelling)</p>
<p>I personally hope the mods leave this thread around after they yank his ID to show that ■■■■■■ don’t last on CC.</p>
<p>To the rest of you loyal CC fans: Pardon my lack of civility for the second time.</p>
<p>@admin/mod: Please keep this thread. I happen to enjoy the cautionary signal it sounds for those who ■■■■■. The only thing that needs deleting is the OP.</p>
<p>If, however, the OP is not banned; that’s all the more reason to keep this post alive, so others will see that the OP has no credibility (nor a prayer of qualifying for the regionals of the National Grammar Competition).</p>
<p>“This was never meant to be something serious, until some people started to post some nasty stuff. and jumping to conclusions.”</p>
<p>Based on your posts, you seem to be seriously considering it. And I don’t think we’re jumping to conclusions. We are merely expressing our philosophy against immoral conduct. </p>
<p>Lying is probably the worst idea you could ever come up with.</p>