What if I just lied

rhandco
Wed, 20 Aug 2014 22:34:10 +0000

It’s a really bad idea to lie on your college application.

They could kick you out if they find out after you have matriculated, and they could even rescind your degree after you graduated if the lie was particularly heinous.

However - real life is that maybe you won’t get caught, and benefit in the short term. I have a former co-worker who said he graduated from Princeton, and it turned out he did not - they never checked on it until he was trying to get tenure, and of course they fired him and also got rid of who hired him without doing proper checking. He ended up getting a new job for more money at a prestigious firm - and no one knew if he lied to them too.

Sooooooo…don’t lie but some do and benefit from it. The results could be disastrous - or you could luck out. You’ve heard of Bernie Madoff. In jail for 150 years now, but by lying, he had a great life before he was caught…