<p>Hi everyone! I mailed in my RD app yesterday, but I have one regret. For two of the clubs I'm in, I said that I spent 7 hours on each per week, but the thing is I didn't specify that I only spend that much time on them for about 2 weeks each month. Do you think the adcoms will see this as exaggeration or even worse a lie? Thanks in advance for ure responses!</p>
<p>On the Yale website, you can find the email address for your specific admissions officer. I'm sure if you want to email him/her and specify, they'd be more than happy to note it (and your honesty) on your application.</p>
<p>I feel your pain!! Except I'm worried that they're going to see my legitimate hours for newspaper and another activity and think that I'm lying. I asked my guidance counselor and he reassured me that it was okay, but I'm still worried that they'll think im exaggerating when I'm not</p>
<p>I totaled all the hours and averaged it out, I figure I can't go wrong with that.</p>
<p>oh, a related question: realistically, how can adcoms even judge whether your hour totals are wrong? Because, obviously, they cant be calling every applicant's high school, wishing to get in touch with every club's advisor, and then call outside of school organizations regarding community service, all the while asking what years the kid did it, and how many hours a week. I mean obviously it's a moral thing to not lie about it, but is there anything realistically stopping people from basically cheating?</p>
<p>In the past, schools (including Yale, interestingly enough) have randomly required applicants to verify all the ECs and hours they put on their apps.</p>
<p>what does that mean? that like after being accepted, 1 in 10 acceptees or something has to verify everything?</p>
<p>It was just one year a few years ago and they required random applicants to verify everything, usually by retreiving letters from advisors, etc.</p>