Chapter 7Don't Be Fooled: Recommendation Letters Are Audit Trails
One of the crazy things about applying to a US university for your undergraduate degree is that almost nothing about your extracurriculars on the application is actually audited.
When I applied and was accepted to Stanford Business School for my master's in business administration, a verification service called a bunch of my former employers to check I had worked where I said I had worked and earned what I said I had earned. They also requested verified copies of my undergraduate transcripts. This is a brilliant system because they let applicants apply for business school and then decide if they want to admit them based on what they have written on their application. After ...
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