What are some lies students wrote on college admission essays? ©Quora

I think the most obvious “face-palm” moment I encountered was a long personal statement about an applicant losing his mother to cancer and how this inspired to him to live a more positive life with a new outlook on life….and listed his main contact number as his “mother’s cell phone.”

We needed to contact him about an issue with his transcripts. Curious, I double-checked that there was no “step-parent” mention in either his essay or family information section of the application, but the essay was also written about the very recent passing of his mother, so I did not truly believe there would be a new mother within 3 months, but you never know.

I called him on his self-indicated main contact number, only to have a lovely conversation with his startlingly-alive mother! So either I stumbled into some newly-acquired gifts as a medium, or that essay was a fabrication.

@ellsletter

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