Community Service Documentation?

Applying to College
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<p>I don't really have documentation for a pretty good proportion of my community service hours. I'm not lying about how much I did or anything like that, and there are people who work at the organization, etc. who could tell you that I came and volunteered, but I doubt that they would say "I recall it was exactly 42 hours over eight months" or whatever. I'm more or less ballparking because I didn't go home and write down how much time I devoted or whatever.... I mean, at the time that seemed pretty shallow to me, like I'm just volunteering to rack up hours, but apparently some of my friends have it documented in great detail.</p>

<p>Is some kind of documentation needed? If so, I need to start contacting people and reminding them that two years ago I did X, etc. etc. Does anyone know if that's something I have to do?</p>

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<p>I don't remember needing documentation (I went through the college applications process five years ago, so take this with a grain of salt). I do remember that some colleges asked me for a rough estimate of how much time I spent at various things, and I gave them one ("Let's see, a dive meet usually lasts about X hours, and I was a volunteer judge at Y dive meets that summer give or take one, so I must have spent about XY hours at that...").</p>

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<p>I called UCSD and they said UCs do audit about 10%.</p>

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<p>By 10%, do you mean 10% of its applicants or 10% of your activities... that is probably a stupid question and it's 10% of applicants, but when I'm this frazzled, I'm not going to rely on my own logic.</p>

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<p>10% of applicants.</p>