Will medschools ignore my EC's if they cant be verified?

[u/Icy_Independence8781]

Im not planning on lying on my EC's or anything, but if I do a lot of EC's in undergrad (volunteering, clinical, jobs, school clubs, running own club etc) will they check them all? Im kind of scared admissions would call my school and ask and theyll just be like "idk" and my work went to nothing

[u/Strange-Ask5942]

As long as you can reference them consistently in your primaries/secondaries/interviews you should have no issues. My impression is that most EC’s aren’t verified at all, barring certain odd circumstances like having thousands of hours in something and no meaningful writing or experiences to show for it in your writing.

[u/One_Masterpiece126]

I doubt they check on them, there’s so many applicants and even if they do, just make sure you have good references!

[u/babymunch8 → u/One_Masterpiece126]

Mine were actually verified by a school since one of my references was called to make sure my hours were correct and to verify what I wrote

[u/One_Masterpiece126 → u/babymunch8]

I believe it, I’m sure it happens but it’s 1 in very few, most don’t have time for that, and it’s likely that only occurs in the later stages , not preliminary screening

[u/Agile_Pick_1597 → u/babymunch8]

Did they call all of urs or just the one?

[u/tinkertots1287]

I had no issues with this. Several of my EC’s were years old

[u/PennStateFan221]

All of my ECs were more than 5 years old except my two recent jobs. Didn’t make a difference.

[u/International_Ask985]

I’ll be honest, i am super close with all of my references and not one of them was contacted. Schools simply don’t have the bandwidth or time to contact 10-15 references for 5-10k applicants. That’s just impossible. As long as you don’t have like 800 hours in 1 month or something stupid like that, they won’t care.

[u/rumpears]

Make sure you have solid references for each activity (which you put in AMCAS) and ensure ur hours make sense. You only have 168 hours in a week at max, and you can only realistically work like 70 a week (if even)

[u/Powerhausofthesell]

Is there anything that stands out as perhaps too good to be true or excessive? Excessive as in like borderline impossible hours?

I think if a school has any doubt about the believability, they don’t call they just give a bad score and move along. I don’t think it’s just one thing though, usually it’s a bunch that shady applicants put that as a whole come off as unbelievable.

Best you can do is put the correct hours, put a real person as the contact, loop in that contact, and explain any excessive hours or super impressive ECs.

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[u/urethra-franklinn]

You’re thinking too hard about this brother