Since we are on the topic of activity verification, I thought I would post something that I put in another thread.
I knew someone from my church who was premed since freshman year. What he did was find the hospital with the shortest minimum time commitment. He found a hospital with a three month commitment. He ended up volunteering three months every year up and made sure to be within that time frame when he filled out the AMCAS. Since they ask for a start and end date, he neglected to mention hours. Therefore, according to him, unless explicitly asked about the hours he worked, it was NOT a lie to say that he volunteered all four years. He neglected to mention the nine month breaks, and was able to inflate his perceived commitment by 400%!
So I am wondering if this is a loophole. I noticed that some people who fill out the AMCAS start putting in crazy numbers that they get with heavy algebra when it comes to average hours per week. I volunteer four hours weekly, and that is what I listed. Let's say I had a fulltime job, which is forty hours a week. When people ask how much I work, I would say forty hours a week. Let's now say I take a three month maternity leave in one year. The job is still forty hours a week. It didn't become a 30 hour a week job because of that break. Whether I worked one week, two weeks, five months, a year, or ten years, a forty hour a week job is still a forty hour a week job. Is my reasoning incorrect?