<p>so i’ll just ask this as a general question. if i don’t have my certificate of participation ready (i can’t even rmb if i got one), would it doom me? are international events like THIMUN or world youth congresses or whatever in the practice of providing colleges with namelists of attendees, so that i won’t need to prove anything?</p>
<p>should i just take it out then if i can’t get the certificate?</p>
<p>no! It will not doom you. Chances are, you do not even have to show any sort of proof that you attended. Your honest word is enough. There are always a few applications that colleges might ask for verification for certain activities, but if it is true that you attended it, then you are okay. Everyone is not expected to keep every single little piece of paper handed to them over the course of 4 years. But in answer to your first question, major international events/summits/competitions do not submit namelists to colleges.</p>
<p>oh, i see… how are you sure that they don’t do that? i’ve heard that certain colleges send invitation letters to international science olympiad medallists.</p>
<p>would it be alright if I try to find the contact info for the colleges in case they need it? the congress website has long been taken down though, so i’m not sure what to do.</p>
<p>while they may have a name list in order to send things for special reasons like invitations of admission, they do not retain these records for the sake of checking over admissions applications (it would take far, far, far too long, as there are about a zillion major international summits/events). I don’t know for a personal fact, but I am fairly sure anyways, not that this is any consolation. It would definitely be okay to have contact info just in case, but as mentioned earlier, it really isn’t such a big deal. For most colleges, they only ask less than 10% of all applicants to verify their info, and they mostly do this to applicants which may have something “questionable” on their application</p>