<p>This thread and ensuing debate made me wonder about how many people are doing things like this (sending in completely inflated resumes.) Do schools check?! They should! Once you are accepted, does the school check your application again before you enroll and revoke your acceptance if untruths are found.</p>
<p>I know there isn’t a whole lot of information out there about how colleges catch resume inflators, and it seems to be a problem that no one really wants to talk about. But what do you know about this? Who gets caught? How?</p>
<p>Well first of all, most counselors look at the materials you provide and ask teachers about you, because they dont’ know you that well personally. Every teacher at my school ask for a resume with what you do. If what your teachers and counselor say you do at the school (NHS officer, student council, etc.) matches up with your resume, no worries. Its actually quite easy to read a resume bloater. They come out with all these excess and random activities and may sound insincere. For awards, anyone can easily see what you’ve earned. I’ve tried googling my name along with my school’s. I’m listed on school homepage (editor), local newspaper articles, competitions, private organizations such as local ACS chapter, Runnercard (x-country & track), etc. </p>
<p>Remember keeping it simple, straightforward, and honest never hurts. For Harvard, I simply filled out the common app and didn’t feel a need to include a resume.</p>
<p>I can’t believe yubi did something that stupid. If you post a false resume, then you won’t get true responses.<br>
She probably just wanted to hear people say “yes, you have a good chance at Harvard, Yale, etc.” to boost her ego.</p>
<p>No, I doubt it was for that. I think, had she not been caught, she would’ve actually submitted the resume. There was no reason to make up positions for actual clubs at her school otherwise</p>
<p>Even if she did send in a false resume to colleges, it was awfully rude of her classmates to out her on CC rather than speaking to her and her GC privately.</p>
<p>OMG SORRY FIZIX YOU’RE RIGHT. HOW COULD I HAVE BEEN SO STUPID? Maybe someone else posted on her account? Maybe it WAS a joke? Maybe an alien was controlling her brain while she was on CC too? </p>
<p>You see, fizix, it is our roles as humans to narrow down all the possibilities and choose the one that is most likely to have happened. Get it?</p>
<p>Yeah Dionysus, but the most likely scenario is not the only scenario, and those of us on CC, with the anonymity of the internet, shouldn’t be so hasty to jump to criticisms based on appearances. Try to think reversely of your namesake. </p>
<p>Also, her classmates were *******s for sure. You definitely get the feeling that her school’s full of sabotoging little ingrate kids with their eyes keyed towards becoming rich little farts. Any reasonable, not to mention kind, student would have done what fizix suggested.</p>
<p>Firstly, as Justice said, this is probably just a huge joke. Unless someone really is that stupid/pathetic.</p>
<p>Secondly, (assuming this is somehow a real situation), I don’t think outing her on CC was a rude thing to do at all. What’s rude is to post a fake resume, ask people to evaluate it, and then send it in to colleges. Personally, I’m glad that people called her on it. Someone who does what she did doesn’t deserve to not be called on it in public. Does anyone honestly believe that she “accidentaly” submitted this to colleges? Who draws up a fake, inflated resume just to see if they could have gotten in? Much more likely that she sent it in hoping no one would notice, and got busted. I don’t know about you all, but I lost my respect for her when she got outed.</p>
<p>Finally, if those other kids hadn’t outed her on CC, this thread wouldn’t have become my favorite daily entertainment. I mean, seriously.</p>
<p>All right, but suppose - by whatever miniscule chance - the situation is real and it WAS a mistake to send the fake resume to colleges. You cannot be completely certain that this is not the case; if it is, how do you feel using someone else’s suffering for your own entertainment?</p>
<p>The purpose of this thread is not to gossip about Yubi. I was just using her example as a jumping off point for the question at hand. What do colleges do about situations like this?!</p>
<p>This isn’t meant to sound wrong, but I don’t feel bad at all about reading this for entertainment. If you consider exactly what she did, I just… don’t see how it could be a mistake. If it really, really was, then yes, I would feel kind of bad.</p>
<p>But, to draw up a fake resume with made up extracurriculars and positions, post it on CC w/OUT saying it was fake, and then just happen to send it to the college as well? Come on…</p>
<p>I think the idea is that the stuff you put on your resume will fall in line with things mentioned in your counselor rec, teacher recs, essays, and short answers (it seems tough to write a good essay about something you’ve never done). But, for things like club memberships and positions, I really don’t see how the college will know if you’re dishonest. Then again, you never know if they’ll call the school, or get another app with a person listing the same position, or whatnot.</p>
<p>Soryusen: Yes, it is hard to believe that someone could have made a mistake like that. Nevertheless, I (personally) feel it’s safest to allow for the possibility.</p>
<p>OP: Although there are certainly people out there who downright lie on important things like college apps, I suspect that a more prevalent problem is that of students unconsciously “inflating” their achievements. Inflation is hard to catch because it does go beyond the objective and into the subjective. Sure, you had xyz position (verifiable fact), but exactly how important were you? Is there solid proof of what you did? If so, what standard should be used to judge it? and, who has time to thoroughly examine it?</p>
<p>Also, there’s something else to consider. Suppose (hypothetically!) that the elite colleges are terrible at catching liars and 50% of HYPS students were admitted based on their participation in non-existent clubs. Would you want to go to such a school and be surrounded by such students?</p>
<p>Hey, yeah, that’s probably going to be a problem at my school, because my school has multiple positions for everybody (because my school is on the medium side class-size wise.) … wouldn’t that look weird to the admissions committee if people put the same officer statuses, even if they were true?</p>