Discrepancy in activites - how do i prove to colleges

Applying to College
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I qualified to a national tournament in debate my freshman year. The results were on joyoftournaments, but are now archived and I have no way to show that I did qualify to that tournament. If they google it, since it was 3 years ago, they will have a hard time finding it. However, it is one of my bigger accomplishments (national level).

Will they give me the opportunity to explain or something? or will they be like - this kid lied he’s out. because it is the truth, and they can tell from my app i am very involved in debate, but how do they check it online? or if they contact my counselors, my counselors will say I did qualify, but doesn’t that shed a kind of distrust on my application if they have to ask in the first place?

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They don’t need to check it.

3

@bodangles don’t colleges verify information a lot of the time?

4

Colleges don’t have time to check every detail. My guess is if they check anything, they only check something that seems really out of character or improbable.

I think you are worrying about nothing. As long as you are not lying, you are fine.

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The above posters are correct, @y0l0lsen --colleges won’t check.