Okay friends. Lots to talk about today. For the first time in our four years on these forums, someone has posted, offering to write your essays for you. Intriguing. We make no moral judgments.
In a related note, as some of you may know, I own a number of properties here in Chicago. Tonight, one of the units had a break-in. Dishonesty abounds, gang. Dishonesty abounds. Its not just on these boards, it is everywhere.
But I'll let the crotchety old men worry about "the state of society," and "how dare they" blablabla. Again, we make no moral judgments. So why is this relevant?
Simple: adcoms can smell a rat. And to their credit. As many apps as I have seen in my career, they will see more in a month. A dishonest app--whether you are writing about something you dont REALLY care about, or someone else wrote it for you, or some schlock consultant crossed the line, or you're saying something someone else told you to say--it just wont work.
Forget the fact that it is dishonest, morally reprehensible, lame, etc. That's all someone else's problem. My problem--or YOUR problem, is that it actually wont work--it is so clear when we read a LOR that an applicant has written himself. The other night I was reading an application that a foreign woman had clearly...not written. Id never met the girl, but two sentences into the thing, I knew.
I promise you, dishonesty is not the way to get it done. This is NOT a moral argument. This is practical. This is about getting your as*es into business school. The truth is POWERFUL. The truth gets people into Stanford. The truth inspires people.
Dishonesty is not just "wrong," whatever that means. It is also a surefire way NOT to get into a top bschool.
But something tells me that those bozos who broke into my building dont read my GMATClub forums.
Until tomorrow,
Jon Frank