No, snitches get stitches.... and what good would it do for you? What are the possibilities that if the person did get kicked out of the application cycle or selected to a school, you would get that spot?
Perhaps, that is not the OP's intention. I have multiple acceptances and I would probably report gross lying like what the OP has described. I find it disgraceful that someone would lie like that. I don't want someone like that in practice with me down the road, so I would gladly block their access to the medical profession.
There's a big difference between a small "unintentional" lie vs completing fabricating all of your volunteer experiences on your application.
Agreed. A lot has to do with motive here. If someone simply screws up on the number of hours or interprets the instructions differently than others, that is one thing. IMO, someone so unethical as to lie about this and fabricate a large portion of his or her application AND THEN proceed to audaciously advertise his or her lie absolutely deserves what's coming....
I can't speak for her or the OP, but my guess is that she is bragging the same way that someone who received an A from barely studying would.
Apparently the pre-med world outside of SDN might not be filled with so many altruistic people who enjoy volunteering as much as you all do. 🙄
When volunteering is seen as a pain in the @ss obstacle, I am guessing that someone would take pride boasting about how they never had to work at the hospital for four hours, while others did. It isn't any different than bragging about a good grade, such as in organic chemistry, when everyone else studied their butts off and didn't do as well.
IMO, if she is so arrogant and lacking in commonsense as to brag about something she did that would be unethical -- whether actually she did it or not -- she deserves what comes to her as a result. Further, who
doesn't consider the person who goes around bragging about their A in Ochem without any studying a douche? She needs to grow up. If she lacks the maturity to actually follow through on things or to do what she says she is doing/has done/will do, what makes anyone think she is ready for medicine? When there are some 22,000 applicants rejected each year by every single school, what makes you think someone this dishonest deserves to become a physician?
Are you kidding? There's a huge difference between those two scenarios. If you barely studied in ochem and managed to walk away with an A, you still EARNED it, whereas in this situation the benefit this applicant reaped from her fake experiences was wholly unearned. A more analogous situation would be getting an A in ochem by cheating instead of on your own merit.
Excellent point.
Hi I'm new here, and thought this would be a good place to seek help. I am currently going through a moral dilemma. 🙁
A girl I know from school already has a few acceptances. She lied on her AMCAS about some of her extra curricular activities. She completely made up her volunteering experiences, and has never volunteered at all! She brags to us about her not having to do any of those "stupid" activities. 😱
I don't think someone like this should be a doctor. Should I snitch on her so the schools can punish her accordingly?
Help!!!
OP, frankly, if you're too scared to report her yourself, send me her name, school of affiliation, and, if you have them, the schools to which she was accepted and I'll do it myself.
