I am applying to a program at school and you can include volunteer hours in with your application. I have volunteered at a small nursing home a few years back and I can’t recall exactly how many hours I’ve done (~100). Are the admissions going to call to verify this? I was going to ask the nursing home about my hours but assume it’s going to be difficult for them to go back all these years and individually calculate all of these hours. I would think that they save all of this information but it just seems like too much of a hassle. I need to include contact information so I assume they are going to call too. The thing is the volunteer coordinator I was working with no longer works there anymore so the new coordinator I have never met. I just don’t want them to call and the hours may be off and I look suspicious. I am at a small community college so just to put some stress off of me, how likely is it that they are actually going to call about this?
In general, they don’t. It’s just not that critical to confirm.
Call the nursing home? Zero. Call you? Pretty close to zero.
An estimate is fine 4000 hours in a year, though, would be a red flag. 100 hours won’t raise an eyebrow.
By the way I just checked my application, it does say that they verify what I put down but does this mean they want specific hours? Or do you think that they will just call and verify that I did in fact volunteer there.
Without know the specific college, I can’t say. The only college that I have heard verifying are the UCs. And they just verify a small percentage (if they still do it at all) and ask the student to provide documentation. I doubt very much that any college is contacting volunteer coordinators directly.
Personally, I’d file this under “Things to worry about if it happens, because it probably won’t.”