Will lying about my ethnicity help?

woogzmama
Sun, 29 Jun 2014 17:00:08 +0000

Your acceptance can be rescinded, or your admission revoked, if you are found out, and the lie in your case would be very easy to discover. Do you think that your school’s guidance counselor would be willing to lie on your account? It would just take one unkind rival for admission to the same colleges from your school to make a call to an admissions office, and you would be done. This doesn’t happen often, but it happens frequently enough to make a difference. You’ve heard everyone here advise against it. Somebody in casual conversation will suggest that it’s worth trying. Do you think that it’s worth the risk? I think that your school might be honor-bound to contact all your colleges if they find out about it. The slight boost you might receive would not only be eliminated, but you would not get in anywhere for that year. . . or you could lose all your scholarship offers once acceptances were rescinded. You might get away with it. In that case, you’ll never know whether your application would have stood on its own, and you will spend four years worrying about being found out. Okay, the lecture’s over . . .