How Verification Works

Every mentor application is approved the moment it's submitted — nobody waits behind a reviewer's inbox to start helping students. What happens behind that instant approval is a set of automatic checks: is this College ID already claimed by another account, does the claimed graduation year fit the enrollment year encoded in the ID, does the CGPA look like it was typed on the wrong scale.

None of those checks block approval. Anything they flag goes into a queue a human reviews afterwards — an "approve, then flag for review" model, chosen because requiring a reviewer's click first would stall every applicant behind one person's attention, which a platform with a small team can't afford. If a flag turns out to matter, the mentor's listing can still be corrected or removed later.

It's worth being precise here, because it's easy to overstate. The College ID format check catches typos, not fabrications — it's trivial to type something that merely looks like a valid ID. What the ID genuinely buys, with no human involved, is two things:

• One account per enrollment number. A unique constraint means a second account can't claim an ID already in use — that's the identity-dedup half.
• A cohort year. The ID format encodes an enrollment year, which is cross-checked against the graduation year an applicant claims, catching an obviously inconsistent pair.

What it does not prove is current enrollment status. We never verify against a live SRM University-AP student register, and this page never claims we do. Anything that needs stronger confidence than the format check can give goes to the flag queue for a person to look at.

There's no application for the certificate and no button that grants it. It's issued automatically once a mentor has had a genuine two-way exchange with 3 different students — meaning the mentor sent at least one message and the student sent at least one back. Opening a chat that's never answered doesn't count toward the number, which is exactly what keeps the figure honest.

Every certificate carries a public verification link. The figures on it — students helped, badges, reviews — are recomputed live from the platform every time that link is opened, so the page is never out of date with what the certificate image shows, and anyone (a recruiter, a professor) can check it without an account.