I’m just wondering how the University of California verifies ECs and community service? I’m seriously clueless as to what to expect. I did not lie on my application, but the church where I volunteer every Saturday for 5 hours doesn’t record volunteer days and the only way for verification would just be a phone call there, but I’m frightened that the UC will not accept this. <em>shrug</em>
I’d really appreciate any info on how they verify everything, including clubs and stuff… Thanks!
<p>i have no idea my friend. I have wondered that to. I mean, do they sum how check every EC? Yea, same here, a lot of community service is not really recorded "officially" dont worry about. no biggy</p>
<p>I think that each school asks a random number of acceptees to verify their activities through a letter or something like that.</p>
<p>They do random spot checks.</p>
<p>I think they look at your EC's and and all the other things you list that you do, and if it seems unrealistic that someone could do all that at the same time, they may check you out.</p>
<p>I know UCSD randomly picks 10% of the admitted people to verify their ECs.</p>
<p>woah..</p>
<p>that seems weird.... (the UCSD 10% thing) but i guess it's understandable since having thousands of people verify would take quite a while</p>
<p>oh, i actually really like the idea of the letter. that would be so much easier than getting millions of signatures.</p>
<p>I think it's a random spot check. A couple months ago, one of my friends said she got a form mailed to her from a UC, asking her for verification. So I guess you just get some signatures...</p>
<p>yup, they do random spot checks. cuz they did one on my best friend and she they sent her a paper that she had to get signed by her club coordinator/advisors in order to verify that she was in the ECs she listed</p>
<p>rExRuN467, is that for UC as a whole? or one school in particular?</p>
<p>cuz if it's for a whole then AWESOME! im free, cuz i got into uc irvine without any spotchecks...</p>
<p>but if its one school in particular then i guess i might have to deal with it!</p>
<p>that seems weird.... (the UCSD 10% thing) but i guess it's understandable since having thousands of people verify would take quite a while</p>
<p>I'm surprised it's even that high. I'd think it would be closer to 1%. I think when I was back in my counsleing office in my high school, I overheard the people there say that not one person from hour high school got a verification letter. Maybe they were talking about something else, but I'm pretty sure it was that. I think it's mainly an honor system type of thing, as long as you don't put something hard to believe down, but I don't think anyone would want to risk the penalty anyway.</p>
<p>so if you had to get something verified, you would have gotten a letter by now?</p>
<p>i'm not sure... does anybody know!?!?!?!?</p>
<p>If everything you've listed are verifiable, you have nothing to worry about so quit panicking and go enjoy what's left of your senior year.</p>
<p>yea..why are guys freaking out? did u lie on your apps? =o</p>
<p>no we didnt lie. im just saying it's going to be tough to verify everything since it wasn't so readily recorded by these people.</p>
<p>I have a question, if I wrote down that I did 48 hours/summer at the library for three years when I really did 24,25,29 what would happen?</p>