<p>Hey all, so I have a quick question. UCSD's comprehensive review awards you 300 points toward your total if you have over 200 community service hours over the course of two years. Does anyone know how UCSD will know how many community service hours you have, and which years you did them in? Is it mandatory to write about them in your personal statements, or will listing them on your online app suffice? Thank you.</p>
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<p>online app will suffice.</p>
<p>I see.. how do they verify the community service hours? Do you have to submit a signed paper with the hours on it, or what?</p>
<p>90% they will take your word for it. They audit the other 10%, and will probably call your school or something.</p>
<p>I see... and for things like living in a single parent household... how do the verify that? Will just listing it on my online app suffice?</p>
<p>Not too sure about that one.. but either way, you can probably get away with just putting in your online app. but if someone is lying, and the UC audits that someone, and catches him/her, its over.</p>
<p>Your parents tax returns required to support the FAFSA your parent and you file will show the kind of household you live in. Whateever you do, DO NOT LIE on your application. There are many ways of tripping yourself on the application or during the financial aid process. Also, each campus audits independently some 7000 to 12,000 of the applications they receive. So if one campus doesn't get you, another will.</p>
<p>Best strategy: tell the ruth. Be up front. Make the most of your strengths and explain your weaknesses.</p>
<p>They already did their audits, so if you weren't contacted, I'm sure you won't be. However, financial aid issues will still be verified.</p>
<p>ty all for the responses.</p>
<p>I've heard about the 10% of people being audited by the schools, but I never knew how they did it. I was actually kind of worried about it because I did not turn in all my community service hours in some form to my school so there is really no verification. Most of my CS Hours was me helping out in my mother's Head Start classroom, but my school knows nothing about that, so I was worried if they contacted them</p>