EC contact information

[SLU Student]

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Hi all,

I have two quick questions:

1) Do medical schools actually contact the individual (by phone or email) that you put down in your EC descriptions?

2) If yes, should I update each individual school with new contact information? Just recently, the volunteer coordinator at the hospital I volunteer at retired, and a new volunteer coordinator took her place. The phone number and email address are now both different.

Thank you in advance.

 

[giguerex35]

I have a similar issue as some of the moderators were students graduated. Curious as to the answer for this.

 

[SLU Student]

@Goro, @gyngyn

What are your thoughts? As adcoms, how do you actually handle the contact information, and what happens if you come up with an invalid email/phone number?

Should applicants update contact information if changed?

Thank you guys for your time and wisdom.

 

[Mr. Babe]

Admissions Committees are going to be very busy with so many applications that they don't have time to call up EC coordinators and stuff. If a school is interested in you and they wanted to know more about an experience than they might give someone a call, but for the most part you don't have to worry about that happening.

 

[mc_bio19]

Absolutely agree with the above. I would try your best to have accurate contact info just in case, but there are thousands of applications these adcoms are sifting through. I highly doubt they have the time to talk with many extracurricular contacts listed. If they do contact, it's probably because the experience elicited a need for more information.

 

[Magulick81]

I would think if they're going to offer you a seat in the class then they might call to make sure you're being truthful about your experiences, but who knows.

 

[Goro]

@Goro, @gyngyn

What are your thoughts? As adcoms, how do you actually handle the contact information, and what happens if you come up with an invalid email/phone number?

Should applicants update contact information if changed?

Thank you guys for your time and wisdom.

I don't consider it my job to call contacts and confirm information. On the app forms that I see, there is no contact information.

However if I ever saw something that I thought was not right, I would ask my admissions Dean to investigate.