The Truth Will Set You Free
In "Confessions of a Recovering Admissions Officer", Rachel Toors is letting her readers know how much more rewarding the truth can be both for the honest person, and also for the person receiving the story. She is very persuasive when she gives the anecdote about the application that was sent in that made her cry. She had felt so terribly for this young woman and wanted to accept her only to find out that the essay written was a fraud. An essay previously written to many other colleges. And all of it was a lie. Using this incident is a good persuasion technique because it gives a glimpse of what her job is really like. It convinces you that truth is so much greater than having to lie about something. The truth is so much more rewarding than a lie is.
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How far can you go with telling the truth? Many colleges accept people who have jumped through hoops and fire into their schools. Unlike so many people that I know, they haven't had the time to do what has been asked such as community services or extracurricular activities because they have had to work during high school. I'm pretty sure that on their day off they just need to take a rest instead of working for a piece of assignment on an application. So many of them have to lie of slightly tell the truth. So should the truth set you free or would it better off telling a lie to get where you want to be? It's not like the schools go back and do their research anyway. They look for the application that sounds the best. I really don't think that the truth has anything to do with it.
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