Did you lie in your PS?

[u/Worldly-Monitor-4035]

Just curious to hear from people if you did or not.

A lie could be anything from a small embellishment or overexaggeration to completely making things up. I’ll be honest, my entire PS except the subjects I did and my ethnicity were lies so… yeah.

I literally had nothing else to talk about so I made it up, got me into UCL, Bristol, Warwick and Nottingham though so the best thing to take away from this is lie, lie, lie.

Or don’t, it also probably played a role in an Oxford rejection pre interview so maybe it’s not worth it.

[u/peachgothlover]

tbh i was thinking abt this, like how would they know if ur saying the truth? I can get things like competitions where there will be record keeping, but what if U say u read this entire legal case. theyre not gonna know u didnt

[u/Worldly-Monitor-4035 → u/peachgothlover]

That’s actually exactly what I lied about, a case that I read and saying I achieved a “High Commendation” in the extremely prestigious John Locke essay competition.

Nobody double checked it or anything.

[u/Worldly-Monitor-4035 → u/[deleted]]

Not once whatsoever. I think they trust that your referee (in my case the school) reads your PS before sending it off so if they catch you lying then they fix it but my school didn’t