College admissions is facing a cheating epidemic. Colleges should do more to guard against fraud
Fox News
A new survey of college students and recent grads finds that more than 60 percent of college students say they lied on their applications.
Frederick Hess is the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
Forty percent of respondents say they included volunteer hours they hadn’t actually completed; 39 percent listed fake job experiences, 38 percent fake extracurricular activities, 32 percent fake internship experiences, and 30 percent falsified letters of recommendation. Also, 39 percent say they misrepresented their race or ethnicity and 22 percent their disability status.
Oh, and when it came to admissions essays, a third of college-goers say they made up stories, 24 percent had someone else pen them, and 18 percent engaged in plagiarism.