学校会做背景调查?

听说学校会在给offer前做背景调查, 是真的吗?

书上说WHARTON会雇专业公司做这种调查考察申请人的申请材料真实性.

有offer后,学校不会做无用的事情的。

to Cranberry: Are you sure that the background check is after getting offer?

I wrote a wrong name of my own business--the name is a number. I wonder whether I should inform the school.  If the background check is after getting offer, it's OK. But I am afraid the school do so before releasing offer. If the school find that the company is not mine, it must think that I am lying.......... However, If I tell the school, may be it would think that I am not serious. sigh...

Is it possible that the school do so after deciding to admit you but before releasing offer?

没听说学校有这样操作的。所有学校都是说如果发现有问题，则取消offer云云，按mm的理解，这个说法纯粹是自相矛盾了。

everybody should have signed such "协议" b4 we had sent out the app. i think it is important for us to put true stories in our essays. as such, the essays will look intersting and unique  (as they are really your own stories) and you got a lot to talk abt in the interview.

not to mention the ethic thing for those who wanna get advanced MBA training.

just my $0.02.

Wharton does background checks on all the admits (after they send out the offers). Every admit will have the chance to provide/modify the contact information of his/her companies and pay $75 for the check.  

I heard that the background check started after they dismissed a 2nd year student in 2002. They discovered that she misrepresented her job title/responsibilities in her application.