AMCAS Cheater

[DR. DUCK]

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I know this guy who is totally making up a lot of his app through amcas. He is making up clinical experience, making up research he did, and even making up deaths and illnesses in his family.

I was wondering what I should do? Should I report him to amcas (This guy is a big time a$$ and is going into med for all the wrong reasons)?

 

[DianaLynne]

Sounds like that would make a good interview ethics question. Seriously though, I really don't know what to tell you. Seems to me that eventually he'd get busted on not knowing something that he should. A lot of times they'll want letters from the research advisor or at least details about his work. I hope that the system would reveal this guy for the fraud he's making himself.

 

[JattMed]

Are you Missitor Powlees Guy?
Who gives a crud?
You think AMCAS doesnt get a million of these kind of complaints from whiners every year?
Put in your app' and if you have what it takes then that is where it ends.

 

[stinkycheese]

If he's lying about that many things, he'll get busted eventually. I wouldn't report it because it's not your business, it is between him, his conscience, and the medical schools. He'll get his in the end, and you don't need the bad karma of tattling. Worry about yourself.

 

[Psycho Doctor]

I know this guy who is totally making up a lot of his app through amcas. He is making up clinical experience, making up research he did, and even making up deaths and illnesses in his family.

I was wondering what I should do? Should I report him to amcas (This guy is a big time a$$ and is going into med for all the wrong reasons)?

when the interviewer asks him specific questions about his research he'll be caught. see the interview thread for when this has happened before.

and what's the point of making up family deaths? what does that do? invoke sympathy?

who will he get his LOR from?

he'll get caught in the end and when he does he'll have his acceptances rescinded. 😀

 

[Megalofyia]

Honestly I think that AMCAS and the med schools care alot more about GPA and MCAT than if he has a sick family member. Those things are alot harder to fake since you have submit your transcripts and official scores. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[DR. DUCK]

It think the whole "he ll get what he deserves" "he ll get caught at his interview" stuff is all BS. A lot of people go uncaught for cheating and end up becoming successful people.

Something like a little brother dying or a sick grandma is verifiable and amcas might be able to check it out.

 

[Pinkertinkle]

Wait till he starts getting and bragging about acceptances, then report him. HAHAHAHA, sucker.

 

[DrBooBoo]

Eventually, the committee will probably verify if the applicant was actually enrolled in a clinical or research program....

I'm sure there's some stories out there...anyone like to share???

 

[MoosePilot]

Wait till he starts getting and bragging about acceptances, then report him. HAHAHAHA, sucker.

Actually wait until the last quarter of medical school. It would be more just for him to have 3.75 years of med school debt and no easy way to pay it off.

 

[Pinkertinkle]

Actually wait until the last quarter of medical school. It would be more just for him to have 3.75 years of med school debt and no easy way to pay it off.

Haha, that's even more evil and ingenius.

DEW ITTT!!

 

[Mr. Seeds]

Haha, that's even more evil and ingenius.

DEW ITTT!!

I seriously can't imagine how he expects to get through the interview having lied about a research project that never occurred. Oh man that will bite him in the a$$.

You can lie about how meaningful an experience was, i.e., that some volunteer experience changed your life when in fact you hated it, but I think research is a different story. If you don't know your $hit, it will come through loud and clear to the adcoms.

 

[DoctorMalki]

Wait till he starts getting and bragging about acceptances, then report him. HAHAHAHA, sucker.

👍

 

[blondie]

My ex-boyfriend lied about ever being convicted of anything more than a minor traffic violation (AMCAS and every secondary asks that question), volunteer experiences, shadowing a physician. He just started at OU....I wonder if schools actually check to see if their applicants have a criminal past? It certainly would be funny if they punished the BIG liars...

 

[jlee9531]

i'd report that punkass.
and if the schools really wanted to, believe me...they can find out things.

 

[tllajd]

What happens if you took one course from a college and flunked it? You never went back and it just sits there. How would AMCAS ever know that you took that course? How do they verify such things unless you tell them.

I'm sure it happens all the time.