I submitted my common app to ED 1 NYU yesterday and I accidentally put AP Econ as a full year class, when it is only a semester class, and subsequently forgot to say AP Political Science, which falls in the second semester after taking Econ.
Should I contact NYU?
@minpark283 -School clubs should be included on your activities list. But this omission is no big deal. Write to your regional rep and explain your confusion and include a resume that has ALL your activities on it. This “error” could even be a blessing in disguise because it will allow you to connect with your admissions rep if you haven’t already. (The regional rep is the staff member who oversees applicants from your high school. If you don’t know who that is, look on the Web site or phone the admission office to ask for the name and email address.)
@Stephiey-Financial form errors should be corrected. Email the financial aid office. This isn’t a big deal either but you should set the record straight.
@Crzcorgi-Colleges use the official transcript that the high school sends so don’t worry about this. Your oversight is very minor anyway. It’s not like you put down that you were taking AP Physics when you were really taking gym!
My son just has submitted the application for EA. His high school transcript had an error, a wrong grade for a class. He was following up with his school to get it corrected. His school has resent the corrected transcript to the college after he has submitted the application. Also second recommendation letter was submitted personally at admission office (in both the cases it was not his mistake) before submitting the application.
Now I realized that my son was a ‘Bio-medical Research academy’ student and while filling the application he thought it was not the activity and didn’t mention that crucial information anywhere on the application.
His stats are really good with Hospital volunteer-ship/clubs/baseball/ Research internship activities, with 8 AP/IBs and during senior year doing 8 dual credit classes at college, 4.4/4 GPA and ACT 34, NHS, National Merit Commended, AP scholar with distinction.
Wondering if not mentioning about Bio-medical Research academy student (with STEM enrichment program
in hospitals) was a big mistake in terms of college merit scholarship? Is it OK to send the resume to college as you have mentioned earlier? even though his transcript was resent, second recommendation letter was submitted personally. Now in what way sending resume will affect? or better not to send the resume?
Hi! So I have a question: I recently submitted my application for early action and realized that I might be messed up the whole test score section on my Common App: I entered all my scores for both the SAT, SAT2 and ACT, and filled out the highest combined composite from all of the test I took for the ACT; however, I only sent a score report for one ACT test, and that’s the test that was this October so right now, the college doesn’t have any score from me. Im wondering, should I send all my scores now because I entered the highest combined composite from all tests I took? Also, I filled out the SAT score blank on the common app, but my score was bad that I didn’t send a score report for the SAT. Is that going to hurt me? Please help me- I’m so confused about the whole college app processes and I don’t have anyone else I can ask. Thanks in advance!
Do you want them to use your ACT score? If so you have to send it (unless you are talking about UCs which allow self reporting until you are accepted). For scores you don’t want them to use, don’t bother sending unless the college specifically requires it.
Hello! So I just realized I made a mistake on my Common App. On the Education Page under the Grades tab, I put 5 for my GPA scale instead of 4. I already submitted my Common App to 6 schools. Is this a big mistake that I should contact the schools about? Thanks for your reply!
@Pras2016-Your son can send a resume to his EA school (if it isn’t Stanford or Columbia where resumes are not especially welcome). He can even include a brief cover note that alerts the admission folks to additional information on his resume that was not on the Common App, including his Biomedical Research Academy. But it’s not clear from your post, above, what this Biomedical Research Academy actually is. For instance, is it the Penn summer program? Is it an ongoing academic-year endeavor? Make sure that your son offers a little more detail than you’ve provided here. In any case, it’s unlikely that this information is “crucial,” but --even so–it IS worth including on a resume, especially if it’s an ongoing school-year activity and not just a summer program.
@Bouvardia … because you are hoping that your Early Action college will “Superscore” your ACT and because it seems that you entered ACT scores on your application from more than one test, then you must send official test scores for BOTH of your ACT’s.
If you did well on your Subject Tests and you want colleges to also consider your Subject Test scores (or even if you didn’t do so well but these tests are required, even for ACT-takers) then you must send official versions of those, too. And all of this must be done immediately. You’re already late for the Early Action round.
But the good news is that most admission officials will use your self-reported scores to give you at least a preliminary rating (if they get to your application before your official scores arrive which–in this case–is likely). However, they will not make a FINAL decision until they have seen the OFFICIAL scores sent by the testing agency. Some colleges, however, will consider your application “Incomplete” until the official scores arrive.
Because you are late in ordering scores, you might want to ask your school counselor if he or she will email or fax a copy of your ACT scores to your EA college (and your Subject Tests too if you want the college to use them). Although these scores sent by your counselor DO NOT REPLACE the official scores that you must order from the testing agency, asking your counselor to send them will increase the chances that your application will not be marked “Incomplete.” So if your counselor is willing to do this for you, it would be a good idea.
If your SAT’s were low and you don’t want colleges to consider them, it wasn’t such a hot idea to put them on the application. But that’s ancient history now, and if you don’t send score reports, the college will ultimately just use your ACT results.
It is a very confusing process and you’re certainly not the first student to be flummoxed by it!
@ThatPeprika -Not a big deal unless you are applying to UC schools that rely on self-reports. If you are, then contact the admission office(s) to correct the error (and that’s not a big deal either). Other colleges use the transcripts sent by the high school counselors to determine GPA and grading scale and will pay little attention to what you put on your application.
Thanks Sally!
Yes, Biomedical Research Academy was a half day school year STEM program with 5.5 high school credits. Credits are there on his transcript, but it doesn’t say anything about the program. I’ll ask my son to send the resume with a cover note. Thanks!
So I just happened to skim over my common application today and found a mistake
In one of my sentences I said " But even when it seemed like there was hope for or my friend told me the frustrating phrase “There is no point, we can’t make any difference”, I was eager to continue to fight"
But I originally intended “But even when it seemed like there was no hope or my friend told me the frustrating phrase…”
Besides that the essay has no mistakes. Do you think it’s worth contacting the colleges about it or will I just seem too obsessive?
Thank you
@meekojj -I can’t make much sense of EITHER of your phrases … neither the incorrect one nor the intended one. Can you add a bit more context here (a bigger chunk of the paragraph the sentence comes from)? If you’re not comfortable doing it on the forum, send it to me in a Private Message. Then I can let you know if the correction is necessary.
@Sally_Rubenstone Here’s what I wrote:
But even when it seemed like there was hope for or my friend told me the frustrating phrase “There is no point, we can’t make any difference”, I was eager to continue to fight.
But I originally intended:
But even when it seemed like there was no hope or my friend told me the frustrating phrase “There is no point, we can’t make any difference”, I was eager to continue to fight.
@meekojj -It’s hard to weigh in without seeing the botched quotation in context in order to know if the admission folks will understand your intention, but it looks from here like they WILL understand your intention, and thus you’re better off NOT sending a correction.
If you don’t get into your dream colleges, I swear it won’t be because of this!
Good luck!
@Sally_Rubenstone
I think that would be a wise decision. Thank you so much for your advice!
My son entered his GPA correctly, stating it was weighted, however he entered the scale incorrectly. He put that it was a 12 point scale but it is actually a 16 point scale. Again the actually number was correct but the scale was wrong. Should he contact the admissions dept at each school that he applied to or does each school recalculate the GPA based on the transcript. Also, he has been accepted at one of the schools. Does he contact that school to let them know about the error? Thank you.
Cancel this. We are all set
My son had schedule changes at the beginning of his senior year. He changed an online AP Physics C course to an on campus AP Environmental Science Course and added AP Spanish online. He failed to show these changes on the common ap before hitting the submit button. His course work was correct on school report and transcript sent by high school counselor, and we have sent notification of mistake to each college. Will this greatly impact his admissions chances? He is valedictorian of his senior class and has excellent grades and scores.
@mamabear01 - This shouldn’t impact your son’s chances at all. It sounds like no admission decisions were made before your son’s counselor submitted the actual course list to colleges and before your son sent out corrections. Moreover, the rigor of your son’s revised schedule is roughly the same as the rigor of the initial one. Granted, AP Physics C is considered a tougher class than AP Environmental and AP Spanish. But given that he’s substituting two AP classes for just one, and he’s added a an on-campus class instead of just an online class, this will mean that the overall rigor of the revised load is in the same ballpark as the first one.
Admission folks can get irked (and even rescind acceptances) when they learn that a course roster has changed after admission verdicts were issued, but if the rigor of the new load is the same as the rigor of the old load, they rarely do anything about . Besides, it seems like that’s not what’s happening here. It looks like the colleges knew about the changes before making any admission decisions. So, from what I can discern from your question, your son should be just fine.
We just realized that the mistake had been made a few days ago and sent the info to the colleges yesterday. The college that is his first choice will make early action decisions the first week of January. I am concerned that we did not inform them in enough time. However, as I said before, the info from the school report should have been correct. The other colleges are regular decision and will also receive a midyear report with correct info. What do you think about the early action decision?