I’m a sophomore in HS and I’ve been doing 2 clubs, do they check extracurricular and how do they check for them? I’m doing Keyclub and American Red cross club, how are they supposed to check if it’s run by student and different people run the group every year? Especially for community service hours where we just recorded it and send it to keyclub members who entered service hours on their own spreadsheet. The school doesn’t have access to the hours?
No, they don’t typically validate EC data on an application.
But as we’ve seen with the recent scandals, the fact that you can be kicked out of school for misleading information on an application typically stops students from making things up.
AO’s also see thousands of resumes and are pretty good at identifying things out of the ordinary - claims of significant leadership roles or accomplishments that aren’t mentioned in essays or recommendations. They may follow up in those rare circumstances.