I always wondered about “activities” and claimed roles. As a Yale interviewer, we do not get the list or role listed in the app. I, and most interviewers, will ask about EC’s, and I dig pretty hard to get details of the candidate’s level of participation, but who knows if the kid claimed something fantastical in their app.
I did on an occasion get contacted by a parent who told me that an applicant not his kid was claiming a bunch of bogus accomplishments. Did not interview that kid and in any event that kid did not get in.
If the Yale AO is going to enhance EC scrutiny, I wonder if they are going to push that down to interviewers by including the app list.