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<li><p>Do they consider what kind of school you went to? like a preppy school, or poor school, or ghetto school, etc. If so how much does that affect the admissions judgement of the applicant?</p></li>
<li><p>if my SAT scores wernt that great but my other stats were pretty good and i wrote a pretty good essay, does that balance out?</p></li>
<li><p>On the applications for the parents section....whats gonna happen if you parents tell you the wrong thing or they forget something and you put it down on the application?</p></li>
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<li><p>Yes, they generally take into account your background, what opportunities were available to and how competencies your school is</p></li>
<li><p>Sure, things can balance out, but that means absolutely nothing because that question is way too general. </p></li>
<li><p>Really depends on what the mistake is, but probably nothing will happen</p></li>
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<p>There is no parents section of the Common App.</p>
<p>I think the OP means the section of the common app where the student fills out information about the parent’s background.</p>
<p>In answer to #3, unless you blatantly misrepresent your parent’s background (Ivy-league when they’re not, never been to college when they have graduate) nothing will happen.</p>