@homerdog -You nailed it already. Let this go without any more second thoughts … or sleepless nights … or gray hairs! 
Hello! I didn’t realize until recently that for summer activities, you put the incoming grade and not the grade you just finished. Afterwards, I changed the grades for two of my summer activities to “11,” but neglected to change a third major one from “11” to “12.” Looking at the hours, it’s impossible for me to have done all three of them in one summer—should I email or call the college (thank goodness I caught it before I sent it to more colleges) about the error in grade level?
@lavalamp-I would need more details about the activities—especially the “major” one—before advising you. Send a private message if you don’t want to post these activities publicly.
They were all internships/research-related. The two for junior year were on a smaller-scale (not every day) which was why I could fit two into one summer. The third one which I did this past summer for senior year was a much more intensive internship where I worked 40-50 hours a week, and it was also a much more substantial project.
@lavalamp1480 -That’s helpful and I think you should send a brief explanation via email to the colleges that got the wrong information
Thank you!
So I just noticed that I accidentally inserted an adjective before an article instead of after, within an essay I’ve submitted. “solving complex a problem” when it should be “solving a complex problem”. I think the original sentence didn’t have complex in it, and when I inserted complex later, I somehow did so in the wrong place. I always proofread my essays multiple times so can’t believe I didn’t notice this. This is bigger than your average typo… do you think it’s worth letting the admissions office know? I mean, I’m sure they’ll still understand what I meant, but it’s not a good look.
@BlueRidges --OMG, NO!!! Please don’t send a correction to your colleges. You would only irk the college folks. Let this go and don’t worry about it.
Hi Sally,
I work as a counselor at a children’s camp and promptly listed so in the Activities section. My description is right, but I got the name of my position (Recreation Leader) confused with Aquatics Supervisor–a position with a $70k average salary that definitely doesn’t sound like a summer job. Luckily this mistake was only on the applications I sent to Columbia and NYU.
It probably goes without saying that I’ll need to contact admissions for both schools, but I’d just like to know the likelihood of the officers actually correcting the mistake (Every other forum on this topic I’ve seen so far makes already-submitted applications sound intimidatingly final)
@awjeez–How did you make the jump from “Recreation Leader” to “Aquatics Supervisor”??? Most of the mistakes I read about on this thread are very understandable, but this one has me flummoxed.
I actually don’t think that the college folks are going to care … or notice. It’s not as if you said you were a state senator or orthopedic surgeon when you meant to say camp counselor. “Aquatics Supervisor,” for me, merely evokes the image of someone standing on the edge of a pool or lake making sure that little heads don’t slide under the water without coming out again. It doesn’t spur me to think of of a highly-paid professional. So that’s why I feel that no correction is needed, but I still can’t figure out how you made that error in the first place.
Hi Sally, I accidentally wrote semester instead of trimester for my school on common app. What should I do? Will they reject me because of this?
But all of my courses are the same throughout the entire year
@Fun123 -This is nothing to worry about. No need to send a correction. It’s a minor error that won’t have any impact on your college decisions.
Okay thank you 
As well, I noticed that for common app I wrote early decision (which is what I want) but for my art supplement that was created in slideroom, I initially created it for regular decision so I sent it in accidentally as that.
Is it going to have a significant impact?
@Fun123 -Do you mean that you checked the Regular Decision box on your art supplement or that you missed the Early Decision deadline when you sent it?
If you didn’t send the supplement late and if you did complete and submit an Early Decision commitment form, then there’s no problem if you checked the wrong box on the art supplement.
I checked the regular decision box on my art supplement but did submit an early decision commitment (both were on time)
@Fun123 -You’re fine. Don’t worry
I usually refer to myself as a counselor, since that’s the more colloquial name for my job. I knew there was a formal title, but I couldn’t quite remember it off the top of my head and reverted to Aquatics Supervisor since that was the name I’d heard of the most. In hindsight, I’d probably have been better off if I’d just put “Counselor” on the Activities list.
Thanks for the help!
@awjeez -just leave this alone. Don’t send a correction.
Hello! When submitting my Harvard application, I unfortunately missed one of the questions in the “academics” section and submitted that portion of the application with a blank question (the one about any additional academic experiences not listed in the activities section of the common application). I realized this mistake in time for submitting the “writing questions” portion of the application. I wrote a short apology note and attached the unsubmitted essay to my Harvard 650 word essay then uploaded the two together in a PDF in the space where Harvard wanted me to attach the 650 word supplement.
How poorly will this reflect on me when comes time for admissions? Should I contact the Harvard admissions office to let them know where I put the second supplement if it is still in the application as a whole, or would calling them increase the amount of attention I draw to the problem? Or would it make me look more mature? Not sure what to do!