<p>hi guys</p>
<p>i have a question: how do colleges verify information about my extracurriculars which i give them? i'm from croatia and i really don't know if i need to have some sort of certificate that i volunteered in some place or that i was a part of certain activity (e.g. collecting sneakers for poor children in africa).
i'm talking about need-blind colleges, like harvard, yale, dartmouth, princeton, williams and amherst.
i need to know that so i could start collecting the "evidence" if it is necesarry.</p>
<p>thank you :)</p>
<p>As somebody told me, you don’t need to provide any evidence of your ECs.</p>
<p>College apps don’t require direct evidence of ECs so you should not need to be collecting anything. However some HS list school-related activities and clubs on official transcripts, recs often mention ECs and ad coms call counselors from time to time, especially for small school ED applicants.</p>
<p>i’m sorry niceday, but i really don’t understand you :)</p>
<p>Basically, you’re probably fine unless you make a really outrageous claim, in which case they might call your school or something to check it out. There probably won’t be a need for you to gather evidence or anything.</p>
<p>No, you do not need to prove anything with regards to ECs; however, as niceday said, your accomplishments are likely to be reflected in other parts of the app, particularly the recommendations. Larger claims can easily be verified with Google searches or calls to school counselors.</p>
<p>except my school doesn’t have a counselor :)</p>
<p>and what do you think about when you say “a larger claim” ?</p>
<p>A larger claim is something like winning a prestigious national competition or something. Something that’s really, really impressive and hard to do.</p>
<p>Anyway, I’d contact the universities you’re applying to about how you don’t have a college counselor there. They’ll be able to tell you who can fill out the information a college counselor normally would.</p>
<p>thank you for your answers people! if i don’t have a “larger claim”, but a lot of “medium ones” (like participating on state competition in ecology twice or volunteering in a number of fields), does it make me less good candidate?</p>
<p>No, not necessarily. What they’re looking for is dedication and passion in whatever you’re doing. If all your ECs are “medium ones,” but you spend a lot of time on them, that works well in your favor.</p>