i submitted 9 schools already but I realized my school doesn’t do class rank but I inputted an incorrect class rank. Should I notify my schools or do they know since they get the transcript sent from my hs?
I need help and fast… Completely missed out the honors section and I want to mention so much… Please give me something… Already submitted the common app
@stockphotohumor -If your school doesn’t rank its students, how did you come up with a rank to include in your applications? The college folks will go without whatever the school counselor reports (which, presumably, will be that the school doesn’t rank) so this probably isn’t a big deal. But some of your evaluators may wonder how you came up with a rank on your own, unless the rank was something broad like “Top Tenth.”
@johnanthonyclay -Put together a list of your honors and email it to your colleges. Send the email to your regional admissions rep* and also Cc the general admissions address at each college. Include a very brief cover note explaining that you missed the Honors section on the Common App and apologize for the oversight and added inconvenience. This is not a big deal.
*This is the staff member who oversees all applicants from your high school. Most admission offices appoint a regional rep for every school that sends them applicants. If you don’t know your rep’s name, start by searching on the admissions Web site. If you can’t find the info there, just call the admission office, which will probably open on Tuesday or one day later in the week.
Hi!
First, thanks for all the information! I have a few thing that I wish to ask and I hope I hadn’t just killed all my chance of getting into any school…
I’m not making the typical type of not-including-an-honor or wrong-numbers mistakes that seemed to be mostly discussed here - in fact, I made stupid mistakes like forgetting an “of” when saying “the community life [of a specific school] attracts me” and others like randomly having one paragraph indented with a space and not the rest…would mistakes like that cause immediate rejection? I edited my essays for like 50 hours and didn’t catch all of them and I was also sleep-deprived when I sent in my applications…when I check things over today I started to panic…
And I also made the grave mistake of not checking over one of my attachments before submitting and the last line overlapped with the common-app stamp (they have this line on the bottom that says CA name CEEB and Fall 2018) Should I email the university and send in a clear attachment? Only one line is affected but I’m also panicking over this…
Thank you so much!
@Lockie–No need to panic over any of this. Although ideally you wouldn’t have made any of these minor errors, ultimately they won’t affect your admission outcomes. For instance, the typical admission office has read something like “the community life [of a specific school] attracts me” about a gazillion times by now and thus is likely to mentally supply the omitted “of” when reviewing your application. So you would just be pestering the busy admission folks if you were to send a correction.
Thanks so much! I just hope it didn’t instantly kill off any slim chance I have left, but I guess I shouldn’t pester the admission office for such minor mistakes either…
What about the second mistake I made? Having the last line (7 words, I counted) overlapped with something else…should I send in the file to admission office just in case?
Thanks!
@Lockie–from the way you described it, it sounds like those final seven words are still legible but they’re just crowded on top of the application stamp or text. If they are at all readable, leave it alone.
Thanks a ton for the help!!
I was going to ask about correcting a minor typo (skakespeare instead of shakespeare), but I see already you strongly discourage from emailing over minor things. Thanks for the advice and a little bit of an ease of mind. Hopefully it isn’t too noticable…fingers crossed
It is on our online portal to check our grades but it isn’t accurate since the rank doesnt take into account of AP/weighted classes. Should I email each school to tell them this or is it no big deal? thanks!
@Sally_Rubenstone Thank you so much! It really helps. I really appreciate your advice!
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I submitted my application for Stanford yesterday but I just unearthed a careless error in the activities section. I did an independent research during 10th grade. But on the app I chose 12th. Moreover I’ve spoken about this activity for the essay, “How did you spend your last two summers?”. There its accurate. But not in the activities section. What do you suggest?
@ShieldOfGod -Since this independent research seems to loom large in your application, you could potentially confuse admission officers by listing it on your application as a senior activity but then describing it as an earlier undertaking in your essay. So, in this case, a brief correction email is warranted. Direct it to your regional admissions rep and then Cc the main Stanford email address. Apologize for the error and correct the timeline. No big deal.
@kuhlm44937 -Yep, you’re right. Skakespeare by any other name is still The Bard. Admission officers will know what you meant and view what you wrote as a garden-variety and inconsequential typo … definitely not worthy of a correction. Besides, most of the admission folks will be reading that portion of your application at such warp speed that they may not even notice the mistake, so don’t fret over it anymore.
@stockphotohumor -I suggest sending a correction ONLY if the faux rank that you put on application will jump off the page … e.g., if you said you were number 1 or number 2 in your class but that’s really way out of line. Likewise, if you penalized yourself significantly (e.g., said you were #30 when, with AP classes factored in, you’re closer to #10), then an explanation would be warranted.
Bottom line: If you think that the rank you submitted erroneously is way out of whack with reality, send a brief correction. But if you suspect that it’s in the ballpark, even at an officially “unranked” school, then just let it go. The colleges will focus on the information submitted by your counselor. No biggie.
thank you so much!!
I accidentally put that I was in a club for a certain amount of years but in reality, I switched to another club. Should I do anything?
@ladelspoon -You’re not giving me much to go on here (e.g., Which clubs were involved? What is “a certain amount of years”?) but, in general, this sounds like something you should leave alone. If you were in one club for, say, four years or in two clubs for two years each, it is going to have no impact on your admission outcomes. So, based on the little you’ve told me, I recommend that you don’t bother admission folks with a correction.
I am a transfer applicant and I made an error putting Winter 2017 instead of 2018. It shows I am planning to take the two courses. Is it possible to fix this mistake or should I wait until the Supplemental Application?