If you made a claim in your application, like ‘published in 5 scholarly articles’, or ‘patent pending’ will colleges take your word for it, or will they do research and see the validity of your claims. If you make a claim like this in your application, do you also have to prove its true with additional info?
Lastly, if colleges can’t seem to find proof of one of your claims of an EC activity, will they reach out to you and ask for proof, or will they just reject you right away.
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One would normally submit written evidence in support of such claims. Recommendations would also highlight that sort of thing.
In my case, how would I validate a ‘patent pending’ claim. Also, if I crowdfunded a certain amount of money or raised it for a non profit, how would I validate the amount raised? All of my claims are true, I just want to make sure colleges know as well.
I have a utility patent that was just granted a few months ago, so I am very familiar with the process. If you submitted the non-provisional or provisional patent more than 18 months ago you can view the status on the USPTO pair - https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair. If not then only your patent attorney can see it on the private pair.
To see the status on the public pair, enter the patent application number. You will only receive a patent number when they mail the issue notification - a few weeks before the patent is granted.
Also, if you actually applied for a patent, you should have received documents from the USPTO acknowledging that they got the patent (like a receipt).
So you can submit to the colleges whatever paper work you have or that was published, but makes sure you don’t submit anything that is confidential without speaking to your attorney. Also, since it’s not patented yet, I would add a water mark.
I would not worry about it. Anyone can have a patent pending. Focus on describing the item you are patenting as they should be more interested in that.
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Ok, I will likely leave the patent pending EC.
I am also concerned about two organizations I run which raised money. They have raised around $5,000 each. I don’t know if this is a large enough amount for colleges to check, but if they want proof I certainly have it. Do you think I need to provide extra info to validate the amount of money raised?
No. Don’t worry.
Having published articles in a peer reviewed journal seems like something that could be verified or not with a 5 minute Google scholar search. Now, if you want to claim your club raised $5,000 and it really only raised $2,500, I don’t see any way for the college to verify that unless your GC recommendation or LORs contradict that.