Compare that to famous examples of adults who have achieved notoriety for flat-out fabrications. Frank Abagnale of Catch Me if You Can fame, managed to work in high profile professions such as physician, lawyer, and airline pilot without possessing a single credential. Amazingly, she had been at MIT for 28 years and had even been bestowed an award as their best administrator.
One of the bigger hotspots for eyebrow-raising contradictions comes on the essay section. A student with a score on the writing SAT whose admissions essay is composed with Hawthorne-level prose will raise more red flags than a Kyrgyzstani color guard their flags are red — Google it! Regardless of your literary bona fides, admissions officers expect your essay to be written in a or year-old voice, not a year-old voice, unless of course you are a middle-aged applicant, in which case writing in a teenage voice would be quite strange.
Of course you should get feedback and editing assistance from adults throughout your essay-writing process. Just make sure that as you incorporate their advice on grammar, flow, sentence-structure, etc.
Do not exaggerate your level of volunteer, work, or extracurricular experience or the number of weekly hours that you spent engaged in such activities. The notion that you somehow volunteered at a nursing home 20 hours per week, while playing three varsity sports, taking four AP classes, and editing the school newspaper seems logistically impossible and, if it somehow was true, still sounds more unhealthy than impressive.
Some students, short on activities, panic at the sight of so much blank space on their extracurriculars section that they resort to grossly embellishing or completely inventing clubs, sports, jobs, and the like.
This phenomenon is seen way too often in admissions offices around the country—the applicant from the Great Plains region who founded a spelunking club, the do-gooder who alleges to have volunteered more hours than exist in a week, and the teen who claims to fluently speak five languages but seems to have trouble remembering any of them during the interview.
Only if you are implying that such a volunteer experience gave you skills you need for the job you are applying for. But you may be asked a lot of questions about your volunteering experience, and they will very likely be able to tell if you are telling the truth based on your answers.
For employment background screening, many parts go into a background check from conducting a criminal record check to verifying past employment and education. Volunteer organizations mostly rely on criminal record checks, including a sex offender search for their screening purposes. Almost certainly, a volunteer background check will include a criminal history check. To find out whether an applicant or volunteer has a criminal past, a nonprofit organization may have access to state and federal criminal history repositories.
Organizations may also employ professional background screening companies. It's just stupid. Don't stress over it. Just put down something that you are comfortable with. After that they want to see "passion" in one or two EC's. Then they look at your essays and recommendations. Believe it or not, they are trying to get a feel for you as a person from the application form.
Large public schools are more numbers driven. The answer is yes, but the quality also counts. My father went to harvard, so i know. He volunteered as a shelterer for victims of disasters and stuff so keep that under ur hat.
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