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I have seen a few recruitment resumes that listed an honor or participation in an activity that, while technically true, seemed a little more grand in the listing than I knew the activity or "honor" to be. I wouldn't have known that, however, if I didn't know the PNM and the high school.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of recruitment resumes (and subsequently the recs based on these resumes) are at the very least embellished, especially when the alum submitting the rec does not know the PNM well (probably a far more common practice now than in the past).
For in-state PNMs attending a school where many actives who attended their high school are sprinkled among the chapters, false info on a resume might be noticed even if the alum submitting the rec was not aware.
For OOS recs, especially those written by an alum who doesn't know the PNM well, and especially when there are few actives about who know the PNM or attended her HS, who knows?
In a large recruitment where thousands of recs are managed, those in charge of membership cannot possibly vet all the details of the recruitment resumes once received.
Resume embellishment -- even inclusion of false info -- is more common than not in the workplace, so I'm not sure I would expect the less risky (by comparison) prospect of embellishing or lying on a recruitment resume to be hugely less common.
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