So My Friend Lied...And Got Into Her First Choice

murkywater
Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:26:10 +0000

“You are seriously even CONSIDERING (though I don’t think you were) calling some COMPANY (its not like its a charity or something), to tell them that someone you have known for YEARS didn’t work as much as she should have? WELCOME TO AMERICA! You will grow lonely, pitiful and cold, and when you get old you’ll be posting on teenagers message boards giving them advice to wind up in the position you will be in, lonesome. Not to mention the fact that chances are that:”

Welcome to America! It’s called trying to change the world instead of being stagnant in its idiocy.

“1. They aren’t going to give the scholarship to someone else. They at WORST will just take it from her and keep the money. Why would they waste more money going back through apps just to give away more of their money? Again, this is still a business.”

Well, better to keep it than to give it to a dishonest person.

“2. If they miraculously do give it to someone else, who the hell is to say this person didn’t fib (and theres a high chance they have)? Then you have screwed a friend and accomplished nothing.”

There is a high chance that they did considering the OP is in many of the same activities and would know whether this person has a leadership position or not. Did you read the first post? No, I don’t think you did.

“There’s not many things I wont do in this world, but intentionally harming a friend, someone who has trusted you and confides in you and is always there for you, is despicable. It is just to satisfy your own anger at not getting accepted. Maybe you didn’t wanna attend there, but if not why is this bothering you? Thats bull to say that your truly THIS worried about someone not getting a scholarship that they should have (which, who’s to say they didnt even LOOK at those parts of her app). It seems like your ego is a bit bruised because you didnt get accepted, it happens to all of us, there’s no need to bring someone down with you.”

It’s not intentionally harming a friend. It’s called teaching them dishonesty doesn’t go. I’m sorry, but sometimes it’s better to do the right thing than to be friends with a dishonest person. It’s not to satisfy one’s own anger at being accepted – someone else probably lost the scholarship because of this dishonest person and it’s time for justice. The OP isn’t bringing someone down with them – stop making ridiculous assumptions. You’re just angry that someone picked doing the right thing over being friends with a liar.

“LMAO what? She didn’t even want the damn thing. In fact, if anything the OP is hurting more people by taking up a spot for NO REASON in the applicant pool. Had he won it and not used it then it would have been even worse, and how many times do these things happen? Countless times.”

What? Uh, hello, of course they wanted it – that’s why they lied. OP is doing the right thing by calling up QuestBridge.

“LMAO. I actually laughed when I saw this. I guess if I lie about my age on the internet i should lose my friends too. Where do you draw the line? what you are basically saying is for her to be flawless. I mean besides lying and cheating, theres only really murder and thievery left that embodies most sins people make anyway.”

Lying about your age on the internet and lying to win a SCHOLARSHIP are different. There is money involved with the latter. The line is drawn when that dishonesty is used to acquire material goods unfairly – it’s called STEALING. Welcome to America! Where people like you tell others that stealing is okay!

“!? You don’t know her yet you are making all these snap judgements because she told this small of a fib on an app that I can guarantee didn’t give her this HUGE competitve edge. I’m sure there are many qualified candidates that weren’t accepted or chose not to even use it.”

She lied – she doesn’t deserve it. Try again, sometime, kay?

“Seriously I don’t see how you people even go to school without getting beat down everyday.”

We don’t hang around with people like you, that think lying is okay because “everyone else is doing it”. The bandwagon argument died 10 years ago, buddy. Grow up.