<p>Hello! I am a senior applying to colleges and I was wondering as to whether undergraduate schools usually call and ask places you mentioned as extracurriculars if you actually did them. The only reason I ask is because I did ballroom dancing from 9th to 10th grade and the reason I stopped was because the studio got bought by a different studio (but they kept the same name). So basically, if schools were to call, they would have no record of me.</p>
<p>No, they don’t.</p>
<p>Also, even if the studio you took ballroom dancing at got bought by a different studio, I’m sure they would still have records of you if your name was stored in a computer.</p>
<p>Depends on the school and how lucky you are. For example, the UC system randomly selects 10% of its admitted students and asks them to verify one of their ECs. If the student can’t verify that one for whatever reason, they ask the student to verify a different EC. If the student can’t do that one either, they are rescinded.</p>
<p>The school might still have your records, but you can also ask your old instructors to just write you a letter confirming you were in the class.</p>
<p>^ Even if they ask for “verification”, you surely have a picture of some point of you dancing in those years, yes? That should be proof enough. </p>
<p>The vast majority of universities will not check on something generic like that.</p>