Verification of applications usually does not occur until after you have been Offered and have taken Acceptance at a school in what is known as the pre-matriculation phase. At that point the admissions office staff, compliance officer, or other assigned individual will make an attempt To reasonably verify W&A. The more formal something is on your application the more as an expected a formal verification. For example if you have a paid clinical position with significant hours, Will expect confirmation from your employer. If you have significant hours in anything else, we would expect confirmation. And this confirmation can come in various forms. If you have letters of evaluation from say a physician you worked for or A research professor, that may be taken a sufficient verification. By the way significant ours is something like 300 400 or more. And of course the more hours you have, the more impressive or an usual any activity is the more likely we need to check. For most applicants this isn’t a concern
What premeds the most concerned about are the short volunteer Positions, clubs or organizations, etc. As I said we need reasonable Confirmation in proportion to the activity. So if you have 100 hours volunteering at some hospital, nursing home, hospice, Food pantry, or any of the other thousand volunteer positions but typically run a shoestring budget and keeps scanty records at best on their volunteers, Don’t get concerned. For example I have spoken to a hospital volunteer coordinator who tells me she’s only been on the job six months there are no records from the previous, we dont tend to keep time notes on our volunteer, etc. I will ask do you ever get pre-medical students from the nearby university volunteering and they say yes we do, That is sufficient.
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