<p>Hello. I am a senior in high school and this is my first post on college confidential. I have a bit of an ethical question. I have recently been accepted to my dream school and am super excited but I am a little nervous about my application. The day before I sent out my common application in November I was hired for a part-time job. I was planning on working this job for the rest of the school year so I put the job on the application noting on the application that I had just been hired the day before. However, about a week after starting the job I had an incident where I passed out all of a sudden in one of my classes at school. After going to the doctor he said I could not drive until the medical issue was figured out. This took about a month. Since I could no longer drive to work I had to quit my part-time job about a week after starting it.</p>
<p>I wasn't sure if I needed to notify the colleges that I applied to about me not working anymore so I asked two trusted guidance counselors at my school, both who said I did not need to notify colleges about changes in employment status.</p>
<p>Now that I am admitted I am a little nervous about my college calling my place of employment listed on the application and being suspicious about me only being employed there about a week and thinking that I was intentionally lying on my application. Or it was so short a time working so long ago they might have forgotten that I was even hired there.</p>
<p>Would they find this and rescind my admission for this? I am an honest person so I feel guilty that I may have been accepted on false pretenses. What should I do? Advice from real college admissions people would be especially appreciated.</p>
<p>People lose jobs for all sorts of reasons: owners die, bankruptcy, sale etc. You were not lying when you said you had it. </p>
<p>Colleges know you cannot see into the future re jobs, so you saying you were going to do it all year really is understood to be an intention, not a fact. </p>
<p>Now, if you were taking two AP classes and then withdrew after a week, totally different issue. I would, as MrMom62 says, relax.</p>
<p>Two “trusted" guidance counselors told you it was not an issue. Let it go.</p>
<p>You are required to notify schools of changes in academic standing, as well as, in some cases, disciplinary action. Getting a job or not keeping a job just aren’t on the list.</p>
<p>1) If the guidance counselors say it is fine, then leave it be. You were not accepted to college because you had a part time job 2) colleges are not going to start calling employers to confirm part time work of accepted students – if they did they would need to have a staff of thousands. In the extremely extremely unlikely event the school did call, you have a perfectly valid reason for not continuing your job and the support of your guidance counselors 3) Your application was correct at the time and written in good faith 4) You also did not talk about your medical issue and how you had to work through some problems to keep up your grades at school which would likely be considered a positive attribute by admissions</p>
<p>Your ethics are strong, there is no doubt and that will serve you well in life. But you didn’t do anything wrong. It is just one of those things when circumstances changed. Congratulations on your acceptance. Now relax and enjoy.</p>