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I was wondering if this error would affect my application. A few hours ago, I submitted my application to my college of choice through the Coalition App. I thought I had been through in my search for errors, but after hitting the submit button, I noticed that I had typed 8 instead of 83 for my graduating class size. Will this impact my chances? I know for sure that I cannot go back to the application and change it. After noticing my mistake, I sent an email to admissions, but I’m still incredibly nervous…
bruh…
@jjoh62831 -This is nothing to worry about at all. Your guidance counselor will list the actual class size on your school report, and the admission officials are not going to care that you made a small error on your application. I promise you that you should not be nervous about this, so let it go.
I accidentally said I wanted to apply for the honors program and did not submit an essay, WHAT SHOULD I DO??
@NapkinsUnite -A lot of folks these days offer up TMI but, in THIS case, I feel I have TLI … too LITTLE information. I assume you’re applying to a college that requires an extra essay for students aspiring to the Honors Program, while those who don’t want to apply for Honors don’t have to write it. Is this correct?
If so, do you want to apply for the Honors Program or not? If you DO, and the deadline hasn’t passed yet, then write the essay and email it to your regional admissions rep* and include an explanatory note saying that you mistakenly submitted the application without the Honors essay. But if you actually DON’T want to aim for the Honors Program, just send a quick email saying that you checked the Honors box in error but aren’t actually applying. This isn’t a big deal either way.
*Your regional rep is the staff member who oversees applicants from your high school. If you don’t know who your rep is, look first on the admissions Web site. If you can’t find it there, call the admissions office and ask for the name and email address.
<p>Hi, I applied ED to Cornell Hotel School and made a few mistakes on my essay and activities section of my common app (submitted everything already). I talked in my essay about how when I sat in on a class there they gave out food and put it in the cup holder of my seat but there was actually not a cup holder (I could have sworn there was, but apparently they just handed it out). Is that a really bad error? I also used the past tense for all of my common app activities and restated my positions in the description (e.g. Team captain and said I was named team captain senior year as part of my activity description). Also feel like I used boring verbs such as helped, organized etc. Any serious issues there?</p>
@Jbrizz-The cup holder snafu is nothing. Don’t give it another thought. It won’t hurt you at all, and the fact that you included an experience from a campus visit in your essay could turn out to be a plus.
I can’t tell from your query exactly what you think your other problems were (past tense? boring verbs?) but they don’t sound like serious issues --or any issues at all–from where I sit.
What if I accidentally did not report “planned AP tests” in the self report AP scores portion? My transcript has been sent and my course schedule with the APs on the other portion of the common app is correct, and I reported my old scores
@Jeanvaljean123 -The omitted planned AP tests don’t really matter because students don’t always do in May what they expect to do in October. If, however, you haven’t made any contact with your regional admission reps at your targeted colleges, you can write an email to introduce yourself and to ask any reasonable questions you might have (a “reasonable” question is one that isn’t answered on the Web site and that an admission official is likely to have the answer to). Then in that same message you can add, “I also want to mention that I do plan to take the following AP exams in May even though I omitted this from my application…”
But if you have no genuine reason to write to your regional reps. then just let this go.
I just realized after I submitted my application that I accidentally put the wrong school name for one of my activities on the Common App (tutoring over the summer). I’m panicking a little right now; does this error in using the wrong school name warrant an e-mail?
@jajajalol2 -Sounds highly unlikely that you need to do anything about this or that it will have any impact at all. But if you want to say what you wrote down and what the REAL school name should be, I can advise you more accurately. Send me a PM if you don’t want to put it here. Definitely no need to panic!
Hello! My daughter realized she made a mistake on the Common App in self-reporting her ACT writing score. Where it asked for “Highest Combined English/Writing or Writing Subject Score,” she was confused by the fact that the drop-down menu showed a scale of 1-36 (instead of 12 being the highest possible score), and so she put down her ELA score there instead of her writing score. Should she send an email to the schools explaining her error? She has already sent her official ACT scores to the schools to which she is applying. Thank you!
@hellebore–That part of the Common App is confusing, and tons of teenagers make the same --or a similar–mistake. The college folks are used to it, and so your daughter doesn’t need to send a correction. The colleges will use the official score, so don’t worry about this at all.
Thank you so much!
Ms. Rubenstone,
My son sent his EA to Stanford last night. Although his AP scores had been entered on the CA, for some reason they did not show up on the app that went to the school. He looked over the app before we sent it multiple times, but clearly did not catch that. Suggestions? Pretty sure we had previous scores sent directly to the school. Would it be OK for me to PM you?
@RCSTX -It’s fine to PM me.
Hi, I failed to include my honor societies (NHS, WLHS, NEHS) under honors for ED to Penn, there is a link where I can upload application updates, should I upload a doc with the honor societies listed/email my regional rep or do they not make much of a difference? Thanks!
@Junior010 -Honor societies won’t make a difference at Penn. Had you asked last week if you should include them, I’d havehave said yes. But now that you haven’t, it will be more annoying than helpful for you to add them in. So let it go and don’t worry about it. If you are deferred and send an update letter in January, you can always include them then, but they’re not the kind of thing that Penn cares about or that distinguishes one Penn hopeful from another. Good luck!
Hi, yesterday I submitted my EA application to Princeton. Reviewing it today, I just realized that I forgot to include an additional secondary school on my Common App under “Education”. To elaborate, I only went to this school for 2 months during summer to get a math credit (summer after sophomore year). It shows up on my transcript as “Out of District”. Should I email/call the admisssions office to let them know about this mistake? Will it negatively impact/ruin my chances?