Hi, I’m a junior in high school. Recently, I have been asked to fill out this secondary school report background sheet, and I exaggerated on everything. I even put some fake stuff. Will my college advisor investigate into these things or no. And is SSR even that important?
<p>IMO its never a good idea to go with anything other than the truth. Sooner or later it comes back to haunt you. Not a good idea.</p>
<p>The ssr is meant to be filled out by the counselor or school official. Schools usually have their own already printed report that they include - it’s not your job to do this.</p>
<p>yea but first they need you to provide some information so they can give u an interview</p>
<p>Stuyvesant06</p>
<p>Welcome to the board. If you are a student at Stuy, in NY I can understand the competition to be a rocket scientist or to do comething extraordinary. Just be your self.
Exaggerating is nto going to get you ahead in the college admissions game. While the world is a very big place it is a small place. She has probably asked you to fill out the sheet in order to get a better “fix” on you so that she can make your file for senior year. Teacher’s talk, so anything that you put down as it relates to school (course, graded, in school EC’s your perceived ranking) can be easily corroborated, then it may come back and bite you. It would definitely change their impression of you come recommendation time. </p>
<p>Ask for your sheet back and do it again, truthfully.</p>
<p>Doesn’t Stuyvesant send like 25% of their class to MIT?</p>
<p>Stuyvesant Class of 2004:
EA Admits: 12/22
RD Admits: 12 with 2 Waitlists/ 36</p>
<p>24 students out of something like 1000? Give or take a few hundred :P.</p>
<p>of those that do apply there is a 2/3 admit rate.</p>
<p>who cares about MIT. I just wanna get into Wharton. They hate us. So i guess i have no shot.</p>
<p>Damn, I thought the MIT admit rate was higher for Stuy. students. You are a junior in high school, you still have time.</p>
<p>stuyvesant06:
join stuy’s fbla club, my friend just reinstated it this year ;)</p>
<p>dude, im tight with alex man</p>
<p>who the hell are you anyway, drop65</p>
<p>Interesting. Alex is my bro.</p>
<p>I’m the Hunter Financial Group/ Hunter FBLA president.</p>
<p>Hello - the whole SSR package - with your transcript, and how hard your school is, guidance rec? or whatever, is the most important factor for many colleges. When you have your interview, tell your interviewer that some of the fake stuff was not very important to you, and that he/she should cross it out. Also, reverse your exaggerations - if you put President of club on your sheet, work on a way of saying that you’re not, but still this club is really important and you have done this and that for the club.</p>
<p>wow i dont think you could jus outright lie on the ssr esp since all the guidance counselors are gonna look at it (ya know mrs d…r would get pretty ****ed off) i mean on mine, i just made myslef sound like gold. but man what the kids from our school would do to go to mit and stuff, its disguisting.</p>
<p>FBLA will get you into college. Join it.</p>
<p>Stuyvesant FBLA Club - Look us up on the Club/Pub page</p>
<p>what does FBLA stand for and what does it do?</p>