We are designing the verification methodology with former admissions officers, and we are looking for more of them. If you have read applications for a living, we want your judgment, and especially your skepticism.
Whether a claim reads as verified, and whether a one-page report survives a committee's six-minute read, are questions only people from inside the room can answer. We would rather be corrected early by experts than late by failure.
In committee, would an evidence-tiered report from an independent verifier have carried weight with you? What, specifically, would it take?
Gaming, liability, equity, committee time. What are we not seeing from inside the room?
A file gets minutes, not hours. What does a one-page, claim-level report need to look like to be usable rather than ignored?
For a strong, honest applicant: does attaching a verification report help them, and if not, what changes that answer?
Most conversations are a single call: your read on the mechanism, the report format, and where it breaks. For those who find the problem interesting, we are assembling a small advisory group of former admissions officers to shape the methodology, the evidence tiers, and the report design as they are built.
