naiveteblg wrote:
mbs17 wrote:
I remember reading an interview with a dean of admissions where they were asked about background checks and they said that there are at most 1 or 2 people each year that have their offer rescinded because of background checks, so I wouldn't be too worried about it. Also, if you are really confident that everything in your applications and resume is 100% verifiably true I would be even less worried. Don't let it ruin any of your plans, it seems like a real formality. I think it is meant to just to make sure nothing really serious slips by. Like a Matthew Martoma situation, the Stanford GSB grad who was expelled from Harvard Law School for forging his transcripts and in prison right now on a 9-year sentence for insider trading. He almost certainly lied on his application saying he never had been subject to a disciplinary proceeding. Now it was an extremely embarrassing situation for Stanford GSB, who subsequently rescinded his MBA. Background checks have sprouted up in MBA admissions to try to avoid those types of situations.
Very true, but even though I have nothing to hide, I don't want to resign before everything is 100% final. Paranoid? Maybe, but what can I do...
mbs17 - thanks for the insight. Similarly to
naiveteblg I am eternally paranoid.
I remember winning a half marathon in my home town and worrying that when they announced the winner in the newspaper that they would forget that I came in first and completely overlook me. It is a stupid mindstate if you let it overcome you but being paranoid helps in certain situations - like being very detailed.
In this situation I am wondering (stupidly) “What if my boss decides he is pissed at me for not staying 1 month longer and decides to talk bad about me when Kroll/ReVera ask if he meant what he said in my rec letter?!?! “ These doomsday scenarios keep playing in my head.