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[Seihai]

Some of my verifiers refuse to give me their number (busy, aren't comfortable being on the line with med schools, one actually doesn't have a phone), and therefore I have to resort to providing an email only. Will it look suspicious providing emails for verifiers but no number?

Not really. There's a reason why AMCAS lets you do one or the other to fulfill the requirement of contact info. This would only be suspicious if you combined it with a suspicious activity claim.

 

[AnMDtoB]

What's suspicious activity claim?

Something extreme (hours or activity) or incredibly unusual.

If you write that you've done 500 hours of shadowing in just one month, that's suspicious.

Claim that you have published 10 publications, but only have 100 hours of research? They're gonna want to verify that

If you say you won an award that you describe as being highly prestigious, but that they may never have heard of, they're going to want to verify that.


I have no idea or any way of knowing if or how much schools will verify, but I suspect only the items I describe above before they consider an interview and then do a more in-depth check after acceptance. My UG has us fill out a similar W/A section when we request our committee letter, but the pre-med advisor told me that they only actually reach out to references if the hour number is insane or is another situation described above (apparently they've only had to do this a few times over several decades.

 

[drducky.]

Some of my verifiers refuse to give me their number (busy, aren't comfortable being on the line with med schools, one actually doesn't have a phone), and therefore I have to resort to providing an email only. Will it look suspicious providing emails for verifiers but no number?
And also, does the verifier have to be a person of authority? At the hospital I volunteered at I didn't know the volunteer director, so I put a fellow volunteer who can account for my hours.

In my opinion, email only is fine if it's a professional email like [email protected].

Also, putting down a fellow volunteer instead of the volunteer director is suspicious imo. My hospital volunteer director didn't know who I was, but she has access to all my volunteer hours and can pull it up if asked. If I saw a "fellow volunteer" listed as a contact, I'd probably follow up on it since hospitals usually always have someone in charge of volunteers for legal purposes, whereas a fellow volunteer/friend can easily lie for you.