How would you verify an extracurricular like this?

Applying to College
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<p>Apparently the UC schools randomly choose 10% of their applicants to verify one thing on their application, like an extracurricular, before they consider them for admission. What if a person lists independent study (no formal, documented or online courses) of a language/culture as an extracurricular, as something they genuinely invested time into? </p>

<p>I saw a thread by someone in a similiar situation, but they verified their independent study by sending scores from the AP exams of the languages they studied. How would a person verify independent study of a language/culture if they weren't confident enough of their knowledge/skill to take such exams, or if it was too late for them to take those exams in time for admission consideration?</p>

<p>Please don't give me answers along the lines of "you shouldn't be worrying about something so trivial on a college application" or "an extracurricular like that wouldn't make a difference, so they won't bother checking", because I consider myself to be an individual of utmost integrity, and I wouldn't want to list something I couldn't verify for fear of being seen as a liar.</p>

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<p>Somebody, somewhere, knows that you have been doing this. There is a teacher, a counselor, a librarian, a bookstore owner, a private tutor. Make sure that that person knows that you are concerned that you may need to have proof of your extracurricular, and arrange for him or her to provide a letter of reference should you ever need one.</p>

<p>If you are studying a language independently, find out if there are any exams that you can take other than an AP exam. You could just google something like "credit by exam X language", or you could start with visits to the CLEP and Excelsior College websites:</p>

<p>CLEP:</a> Getting College Credit
<a href="https://www.excelsior.edu/Excelsior_College/Excelsior_College_Examinations%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.excelsior.edu/Excelsior_College/Excelsior_College_Examinations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Good luck!</p>