If the job requires it, they'll probably check. If the job doesn't require it but the hiring manager has a bias towards college graduates (hint: they all do) then it works.
I'm a software developer and only my first job ever cared for my degree. My current employer actually never saw my degree/diploma or anything. I just said I had it.
Now, if you'd work at a bank/in finance or have a degree in a more regulated industry, they'll probably check.
I put my university, the years I attended, and my major and minor focus of study.
It's not a lie, and if pressed, I always tell the truth. It's become a non issue as my professional experience has mounted and now my resume and references speak for itself.
But, unless I'm asked directly...
Nobody needs to know I dropped out first semester of my senior year due to a crippling drug addiction. Or as I phrase it, a period in my life where I needed to tend to a family medical emergency.
Let's see here... Trans, furry, poor mental health, unmarried, jaded, has made comments about "eating the rich" that have gotten a little too real, would absolutely instruct the CIA to create Operation Glass Ceiling: a highly illegal operation designed to keep any single american from getting too wealthy, would have the CIA stage accidents involving politicians too old or who've been in office too long.
I stand a very good chance of getting elected, don't you think?
Raised atheist. It's one thing to denounce a religion later in life but I never had one. Mom is ex Catholic and dad is entirely unreligious.
In the US it is incredibly rare for higher office officials to be atheist. There has never been a president that was atheist publically but a few were rumored to be privately.
I would be running on a social democratic platform with a focus on urbanism, affordable housing and tough-on-landlords policies, de-escalation with China, stopping state governments from being aggressive toward Mexico, and introducing a bodily autonomy amendment to the Constitution, with rhetoric that attempts to take the notion of American pride back from conservatives and warmongerers.
I was one of those people stopped being "anti-SJW" when Unite the Right happened, and later I flirted with anarcho-communist ideas (I'm still in my early 20s, this is more common with American youth than you'd think.) The former would turn off my social democratic base, the latter would discourage centrist voters. Also my views on race don't align perfectly with the American progressive orthodoxy (it has a lot to do with being mixed race, though I don't think my views are popular with mixed people either.) And I crossdress (might boost me with socdems but halt momentum with undecideds and old people.)
You're probably not going to get your wish on that one. The Chinese government is…well, not nice, as the Uyghurs can attest. Maybe let's let them dial back the oppression first, then make friends with them?
looks at home instance name That I hang out with furries. Still considered a more controversial thing than actually evil things in politics in my country.