Nevermind, its not an issue!
Clarification: I would classify the document as a “Personal Update” and add in the correction.
@alesnavarro -Ordinarily I would tell you not to bother correcting the year of your mission trip because admission officials speeding through your file aren’t going to notice your error–or care whether you did it after grade 10 or grade 11. But since you’re sending an update about your National Merit status anyway, then it does make sense to correct the trip date at the same time. You can add both updates right in the portal; there’s no need for a separate email. An email is only necessary when updates or changes are needed but no portal is available.
Hi! I have a quick question, I accidentally put one of my parents education wrong on my common app submitted to one of my schools. I put college education rather than graduate school, but i listed that they received a master degree in the degrees section. My college has a submission form to correct errors, is this worth notifying them?
@aloproles -Since you did indicate the Masters degree elsewhere, I vote to let this error go. It’s very minor and the college folks probably won’t catch the discrepancy—or care if they do.
I accidently give the college wrong information on activity section. So I gave them incorrect name of the match I participated in. The worst part is my rank I meant to put 28th but accidently delete the number and it is 8th on the application. The match I mentioned is big enough for them to google it(international league). Should I email them with correction and some sort of verification? I am freaking out b/c it is my dream college.
@moomoo23 -No need to freak out! 
If your only error had been the misnamed “match,” I’d say to let it go and not worry. But, because you screwed up your rank as well,. an emailed correction is in order. If admission officials were to see “28” on your official school documents and “8” on your application, they wouldn’t assume you were trying to cheat but they could be confused and probably WOULD wonder who had made an error–you or your school counselor.
So, as long as you’re correcting the rank, you can correct the name of the match as well in the same message.
Send an email to the main admissions address with a Cc to your own regional rep (the staff member who oversees applicants from your high school). Apologize for taking their time and be brief. No “verification” is necessary.
Above all, look over your entire application carefully BEFORE you send the corrections to be certain that you don’t have to write to them AGAIN! And also make sure that you put these changes into your Common App, if that’s what you’re using, so that they won’t occur again.
But, really, don’t fret that this will torpedo your admission chances. If you’re denied by your “dream” college, it won’t be because of these minor mistakes.
Hello,
I submitted my application yesterday to three schools, and this morning after reviewing, I realize I have made two mistakes.
- For one of my clubs, the hours I put down are not averaged correctly. I fixed this on another device but it seems that when I submitted on my computer, it still had the old info. This club was all year so I said 6hrs for 39 weeks when it should be around 2 or 3 for the whole year. In addition to my other activities, the hours seem kind of high even though I am doing them at different times of the year, and working more in the summer brings up my average for work.
- I missed the self reporting of AP scores. I got two 4s and a 3 last year and I’m submitting to state schools, so that I feel would be helpful.
Is it ok to email the schools about these corrections at the same time?
Thank you!
When I say whole year, I mean school year. Sorry
Hello! I submitted my college application two days ago and today I noticed that for my environmental systems class I put HL instead of SL, and for my math class which is ib analysis and approaches I mistakenly put ib analysis and applications. I also forgot to put the ib tests that I’m planning to take in the spring. Should I email the uva admissions office to fix these mistakes, or should I just let it go?
@Pbulrupele --The discrepancy in the club hours isn’t worth a correction but adding the AP scores IS. So, since you do have a good reason to write to admission officials, you can amend both errors at the same time. No big deal.
@nfiniti -Yes, do email UVA to correct the errors. This won’t affect your admission verdicts but it might confuse admission officials to see a class listed as HL on your application but as SL on your transcript. So you can amend all of your mistakes at the same time. But be sure to check carefully for others before you send the email.
My S21 reported on the CA that his GPA was UW4 On one spot on our school site it says an A is a 90-100, but when we got his unofficial last week we saw that they are weighting 92’s as a 3.7 making his UW GPA for major subjects a 3.98. It seems they use two different systems, one for weighting and one for honor roll. Should he send a correction or will the schools just recalculate according to their own guidelines?
@1intwo2go -Definitely do NOT send a correction. College folks are used to small discrepancies, like this one, between a GPA reported to a student and the one that ends up on the school counselor’s official submission. Moreover, a 3.98 rounds up to a 4.0 anyway. So leave this alone; your son is fine, whether the college recalculates or not (some do; many don’t).
Hi! I really need help! So I applied restrictive early action to Yale last night and after submitting, I noticed my activity hours look very inflated. For most activities, I took the number of hours during a busy week, but then put that over the overall number of hours I was involved. So for example, with one of the clubs I am president of, I put 5 hr/32 w because I was president of it for the entire school year (32 w), but each week it actually may have ranged from 1-5 hrs. Thing is, I did this for basically most of my activity slots, with entries ranging from 3-8 hrs over 32-50 weeks per year. I was so fixated on completing my essays that I didn’t give this much thought, until after submitting yesterday and realizing that they actually end up adding to over 40 hours a week for the majority of the year, which is extremely unrealistic. I’m freaking out because I feel like my application is otherwise strong and I’ve poured so much energy and sacrifice into it over the last month. With such a selective school as Yale, I’m not sure if I should email the AOs corrections because 1) they’re time is very valuable and I feel like pointing out any mistake could ruin your chances in such a competitive applicant pool, and 2) I’m not even sure how exactly I’d explain and correct my mistake other than maybe saying I meant 22 instead of 32 weeks, but I don’t know how much that excuse would even account for. At the same time though, I’m really scared that those hours will raise eyebrows, and if a non ill-intended oversight of a few numbers I could have easily changed is what causes me to get rejected because they think I‘m a dishonest person, I don’t know what I’ll do with myself! I desperately need advice, I’ve been feeling so depressed and stressed out over this!
@123taffgirl -If I were you, I’d do nothing … and this includes WORRYING! The Yale admission officials won’t grab their calculators to tally your activities hours. They understand that the numbers on the applications are ballpark estimates and that hours can vary markedly from week to week
BUT … if you’re convinced that you won’t sleep until you clarify this for the admissions folks, write back and I’ll help you come up with an upbeat, maybe even gimmicky, way to address this. But, really, I feel you should let it go.
If you’re not accepted at Yale … and most applicants arent 
… I swear it will NOT be because of this.
Yesterday, I accidentally misclicked and reported that I got a 5 on the AP World History exam, but I actually got a 4. Is this worth correcting? (This was for my Caltech and Georgia Tech applications.)
If I were hypothetically accepted, and I did not correct this mistake, would there be repercussions when enrolling and sending official score reports, due to the discrepancy?
@cheeseman–Yes, that’s an error you should correct. Although AP scores aren’t an official part of the application process, admission officials do consider them when making decisions. And because official score reports are not required for AP tests until students are ready to enroll, it’s extra important that the self-reported scores are accurate.
If you DON’T make the change, would there be “repercussions?” Maybe yes, maybe no, depending on how the college you choose operates. It could be that only the Registrar will see your official AP score reports when determining which credits you will earn and thus won’t be aware of the discrepancy. But it’s also possible that your admission rep could see the scores first and would question you about the mistake … and not be pleased. So I urge you to send the correction.
OK, thank you so much for your advice!
Hey! I applied REA to Harvard yesterday, and after looking over my submission, I discovered a typo in my activities section. For my main activity, I put 35 hrs/49 wks (10-12), when it should actually be 25 hrs/49 wks (10-12). My total activity hours should add up to ~27-30 hrs/wk for most of the year, but the typo raises the total to 40 (I don’t want admissions officers questioning my mental health). I never noticed until now that I put 35 instead of 25 because the two numbers look relatively similar and my vision is no bueno.
How should I go about addressing this typo and how would I explain it to the admissions officials? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!