At my school, the bar age is 19, which was pretty cool. Your chances of getting in with an obviously fake ID really depended on the bar and the night of the week. If you tried to use one at the most popular bar on a Friday, your chances were slim. But if you went to one of the less popular bars on a Monday or Tuesday, they would usually let you in, sometimes barely looking at your face to see if you remotely matched the ID.
Looking back on my college days, it's amazing how lenient some bouncers really were. I'm 6'6" and used to lend my ID to guys who not only didn't really look like me, but who were barely 6 feet themselves. And more often than not, it worked. I think a lot of bouncers are lenient because they're students just like the bar patrons are, and they were probably in the same situation once upon a time. And as others have said, it increases the revenues for the bar.
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