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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yale is checking by calling college counselors. UCLA is asking for random applicants to upload pdfs of W2 or paystubs to verify jobs. They are doing a lot more verifying this year[/quote]

How can school counselor know your volunteer out of school? [/quote]

They would know if they met with the student. If it's a big public school, bring it up in the counselor meeting and in the parent brag sheet. DC is at a public and did just this - he knew what the teachers would focus on in the LOR, so for any extra things that were important, he made sure to let the counselor know. He was accepted SCEA - of course, we don't know what exactly helped his application, but do your best with every part. Good luck!

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Couldn’t kids just lie to counselor too?  This doesn’t accomplish anything[/quote]

Was thinking about the same thing.

School counselor will just take it at face value, no independent verification.  
So the kid claimed that he: 
did federal judge internship, 
worked on construction jobs, and
coached younger kids for several seasons.

But in fact he did not.  Any problem with that?  No!
It's a honor system.  Isn't it?[/quote]

If these extracurriculars are legit there should be some record somewhere. For the  high school program for federal judge internship there’s usually a public release each year mentioning the admitted students. That’s true for all high school programs that are even marginally relevant. Sports centers list their coaches and assistant coaches on their websites. Construction job may not have a public record, but I’d submit some kind of stub showing hours worked or wages earned.

I agree with the other posters that the applicants should provide links to substantiate their extracurriculars if possible.

If all activities have no way of being quickly verified, I’d find it very odd and it would raise a red flag.[/quote]

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