The unit of analysis is the claim, never the student. Committees keep the judgment; we supply the evidence levels.
The student submits each activity with supporting evidence: links, documents, contacts, records. They select which claims to have verified; nothing is examined without their request.
Registry and database lookups, organization domain and email checks, document authenticity, cross-referencing of names, dates, titles and award levels, and anomaly flags for inconsistencies.
Trained reviewers work a standardized rubric for inter-rater reliability. Every ambiguous claim gets human judgment in context, because titles like “founder” and “captain” mean different things in different places.
Each verified claim carries an evidence tier and, where useful, suggested precise wording. The report is ready within 48 hours of submission, and you are emailed the moment it is available. You review it first and control whether and where it is sent.
Tiers describe the strength of available evidence for a specific claim. They are not judgments of character.
| Tier | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Verified | Strong independent evidence confirms the claim as stated. |
| Substantiated | Evidence supports the claim, but it comes mostly from student-provided documents. |
| Partially verified | The core claim is true; scope, title, or impact is weaker or unclear. |
| Unverified | Not enough evidence either way. A statement about evidence, not truth. |
| Contradicted | Available evidence conflicts with the claim as worded. |
“Founded a nonprofit that tutored 500 low-income students.”
What verification foundRegistered organization: confirmed. Founder role: confirmed. Program records support 180 students served. No independent source for the 500 figure.
Tier Partially verifiedYour report is ready within 48 hours of submission, and you are emailed the moment it is available. An expedited review, returned in under 8 hours, is available on request. The report reaches admissions offices in two forms, and you control both.
A one-page PDF, claim by claim with evidence tiers, downloadable from your account. Share it with counselors, scholarship programs, or anyone else you choose.
Every report comes with its own unique link. Paste it into the Additional Information section of your application. Anyone who clicks it sees your report as a live page on attested.education: nothing to attach, nothing that can be altered in transit.
The link works for eight months from the day your report is issued, which covers the full application cycle it belongs to. After that it expires and the page comes down with it.
We begin with the claim types where exaggeration is easiest and verification matters most.
Placement, level, and selectivity, checked against organizers and public records.
Registration, role, duration, and the scale of activity the records actually support.
Venue, authorship, and the nature of the contribution.
Role, duration, and responsibilities, confirmed with the organization.
“Served 5,000 people” type figures, traced to whatever records exist.
An attestation channel for real work that produces no paperwork: caregiving, community roles, family obligations.
Tiers attach to claims, never to people. A single “honesty score” would punish students whose real work is informally documented, so we refuse to produce one.
We report the level to which a claim was substantiated by available evidence. We never assert that a student lied, and report language is designed around that discipline.
Students see their report before anyone else, may appeal with further evidence, and decide whether and where it is sent.
Independent corroboration outweighs self-supplied documents, single-source evidence that looks too clean gets flagged, and the rubric iterates against observed gaming, as in any serious fraud-detection system.
