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02 Apr 2012, 18:41
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Has anyone ever heard of someone getting nailed on the background check for discrepancies? I see a lot of concern about typos, honest mistakes, etc., but that seems more like paranoia than anything. What kind of discrepancies have gotten people's admission revoked?
02 Apr 2012, 19:35
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Most schools have a policy that makes allowances for "genuine errors".
I had a discrepancy on my application form which was picked up by a background check - in one place I had a typo and incorrectly stated the year in which I started working. However, I had it written correctly in two other places on the app, and on this basis, it was pretty easy to demonstrate to the school that it was a genuine typo.
I had a discrepancy on my application form which was picked up by a background check - in one place I had a typo and incorrectly stated the year in which I started working. However, I had it written correctly in two other places on the app, and on this basis, it was pretty easy to demonstrate to the school that it was a genuine typo.
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As far as I know with these checks, as long as you haven't intentionally tried to mislead the adcom, you should be fine.
If the date you listed a position is a few weeks off from when HR said you started, that probably isn't going to kill anyone. But if you said you were a business unit head, but then the background checkers find out you were just an assistant to the assistant to the business unit head, that's probably going to send you to the guillotine.
Most schools have been secretive about which schools do or do not do these checks after one puts down the deposit. However, even for schools that don't do these background checks, nothing prevents them from verifying your information between the time you officially apply and the time they admit you either, because it is definitely possible that they did.
If the date you listed a position is a few weeks off from when HR said you started, that probably isn't going to kill anyone. But if you said you were a business unit head, but then the background checkers find out you were just an assistant to the assistant to the business unit head, that's probably going to send you to the guillotine.
Most schools have been secretive about which schools do or do not do these checks after one puts down the deposit. However, even for schools that don't do these background checks, nothing prevents them from verifying your information between the time you officially apply and the time they admit you either, because it is definitely possible that they did.
