@lebronjqmes -Read posts 1214 and 1215 on this thread. They apply to you too.
If you have a Harvard alum interview, you can mention this minor error to your interviewer. But otherwise let it go.
Thanks you so much for responding, it really helped! I’ve calmed down and then talked it over with my family and they agreed with you, so I will just leave it!?
@SeventyT80 -Neither of these “errors” (both very minor … the NHS one isn’t actually an error at all) is worth a correction. Admission folks who are speeding through your application (and hundreds … or thousands … of others) are not going to take the time to dwell on when, exactly, you undertook these endeavors. You’re totally fine so don’t worry about this anymore.
And thanks for your thanks! 
@Sally_Rubenstone Hi Sally! I am a dually enrolled high school student taking classes the local community college. I am hired as a tutor at that community college and am required to take a one-credit tutoring course next semester. Now, this is where the mistake comes in. I was looking over my application and in the education section, in the current/most recent courses, I reported that I am taking the one-credit course the first semester, not the second semester. Will this affect my application and would you advise me to email the colleges I’ve applied to so far?
@YellowOrangeSkyz -This is nothing to worry about at all and will have no impact on your admission decisions. You don’t need to notify your colleges. However, it can’t hurt to inform your school counselor of this very minor mistake. On the unlikely chance that s/he is contacted by an admission officer about something else (not this), it makes sense for your counselor to know that you misreported the one-credit class, though it seems almost impossible that it would ever come up.
@Sally_Rubenstone Thank you so much for your response! Have a great rest of your day :))
Hello again, thank you for your input, So on the common app, as I said about the 10th and 11th-grade selection mistake and the NHS problem. However for NHS I also put that down in activities as well as Honors on the common app, and on NHS I put, like I said, both 11th and 12th grade for the activities, and you have to put the number of hours you did per week and how many weeks you were in that activity. A school year would be about 40 weeks, so I put 40 weeks and the minimum amount of hours per week you can put on the Common app would be 1 hour and I put 11th and 12 grade for that. In my school, you need a minimum of 15 hours to be in it so do I have to contact them about this situation, or do they already know how it works? Another thing was that an activity that I did and put in was that I was in a club for 10, 11 the grade. I checked 12th grade as well because I was planning on doing this club again but because of COVID-19, the club got canceled after my application was submitted. Do I to let them know about anything? or will they skim these over? What should I do?
@SeventyT80 --I know this is a stressful process, but you are FINE! Admission officials will spend about 2 seconds reading your activities list. They know how NHS works; they know that some clubs will be canceled due to COVID and that 2020-21 won’t work out as expected for many seniors. So please don’t do ANYTHING (except maybe go for a jog or make some popcorn and watch the election returns). Stop worrying … really!
Alright, thank you. Should I correct the changes on my other apps on my common app that I plan to send, or if I make that change will it look suspicious to the college that I already applied to?
@SeventyT80 --Sure, if you have applications still ahead to submit, then you can update your Common App to provide what you feel is clearer or more accurate information. But there’s no way that this will “look suspicious” to the college that you already applied to.
For starters, those admission folks are NOT going to ever see your amended Common App. They’ll only see the version you sent them. And–as I explained earlier–they’re going to be flying through your activities list so fast that, even if they were to somehow have BOTH versions right in front of them (which would never happen), they wouldn’t have time to notice the discrepancies!
Alright, thank you so much. I just looked over again and for one of my activities I meant to put I did 1 hr/wk 11 wk/yr but I put 2/hr 11 wk/yr. I am really scared, you already told me to not worry, but it’s just a creeping feeling. I put all of the work into my college essay, and now these errors are getting to me because I don’t want to seem dishonest and that was never my intention. With all of these errors or minor errors should I let it be? The school received 3,600 applications last year, which is less than in other schools. I am super sorry for being this obsessive! It’s my first time going through the admissions process like other seniors.
@SeventyT80 -As I said before, this is a stressful process indeed. But remember what I ALSO said, which is that admission folks will spend about 2 seconds glancing at your activities list, and they’re not going to be nit-picking over whether you spent one hour per week or two on some club or organization or whether you were in NHS for all of your junior year or just part of it, etc. I promise you that, if you aren’t admitted to this college, it will NOT because of any of this minor activities-list confusion. So do try to relax about it.
Hello,
So I feel pretty worried right now and I’m not sure if this mistake is something to be worked up about. So in the city of birth section, I put down the town (a “hamlet” in New York) that I lived in until I was about 3 years old. The problem is I was born in a hospital in the next town over (about 5 or 6 miles away). This is really worrying me because I have a twin sister and she put down the name of the correct town that we were born in, and we submitted to the same schools. I didn’t realize my mistake until now a week after I submitted my application. Is this something to be concerned over or should I just let it go?
@autumn775 – You have absolutely nothing to worry about. Your sister took the literal approach to the, “Where were you born?” question while your interpretation was more along the lines of, “Where was your family’s home at the time of your birth?”
So the discrepancy between your sister’s response and yours is fine. I’d bet the mortgage money that, even though you and your sister are aiming for the same colleges, nary an admission official will notice the discrepancy between your place of birth and your twin’s. And even if any eagle-eyed college officials were to pick up on your mismatched answers, they’d quickly realize that that the two towns you named were adjacent and will thus figure out why your answers weren’t congruent. (It would be a different story if your twin had named a NY town as her birth place while you had said, “Hong Kong.” ;))
But, honestly, don’t sweat this. Let it go. It’s not even a mistake.
Thank you so much! I had a feeling that I may have been overreacting. I appreciate you!
Good evening,
I have been worried about these mistakes on my application for a while, and I just want to make sure it won’t get me in any hot water in the future.
So I was in a club at my school, we have had about 1 or 2 meetings total and one event. I didn’t include it in my activities section since it was such a low time commitment, but I did put it on my resume that I sent to a college. I said I was involved from sep 2019- Present, because I wasn’t sure if we would have anything this year, but it has become apparent that we won’t be doing anything. I feel like I should probably not have even included this club on my resume because it was such an insignificant and low time consuming thing, and colleges may see it as dishonest. In the description on my resume I put “attended meetings and events” so I hope I didn’t make it seem like anything it wasn’t. Also, I sent my counselor a resume for her to write a letter for me, which had the club so I don’t know if she included it in that.
The other mistake I realized was sending my counselor a brag sheet with the wrong position stated for a club I am heavily involved in. It should be treasurer, but I accidentally put secretary. I asked my counselor after realizing and she had already submitted her letter and stated the wrong position. It is right everywhere else on my application, so will they just glance over this?
Thank you
Hello Sally,
I will be transferring next year to Fall 2021 from a community college. I recently submitted my USC and Loyola Marymount application on Common app. However, I discover I made an error on the common app. By right clicking my profile icon and selecting “Extended profile”, it shows a list of questions. One of those questions was under “Degree status” and it ask “Will you have earned an educational degree when you enroll at the college to which you are applying?”, and I put “I will have completed college classes without earning a degree.” But I found out once I completed my Spring 2021 semester, I WILL be receiving an Associate in Studio Arts for Transfer (AA-T). I tried to change the answer but it does not allow me. However, on the academic section of the common app, I came upon this question asking, “Did you obtain or are you planning to obtain a degree from this college or University?” Same answer as I putted for “Extended Profile”. However, this allows me to update this section. I want to change it to “yes” but I’m afraid that change will affect my admission to USC. I wanted to notify USC of my errors but at this point I’m not sure what’s my next course of action should be. Will this error affect my admission? Can I change my answer to a “yes”? I would appreciate the help!
@Purplecat471 -Your first “mistake” (including a club on your resume where you participated minimally and which wasn’t on your application) is NOT a mistake at all. The Common App asks for only the most important activities and often doesn’t offer room for EVERYTHING a student has undertaken. So it’s very common to include some activities on a resume that never made it onto the application. It’s also fine to include an activity that didn’t require a lot of time and effort and to even list this year’s dates–with the hope that the club will be revived, even if it isn’t. Admission officials understand that it can be difficult to predict in the fall what you’ll be doing by the spring. So no problem here at all.
As for the second issue, this is such a teeny-weeny mistake that you need not fret. It’s not as if you promoted yourself from bathroom monitor to student government president. 
The college folks will view secretary and treasurer as comparable offices, should they even notice the discrepancy as they breeze through your forms—but I highly doubt that they will.
So relax and don’t give any of this another thought.
@DuskSnow --Once a Common Application has been submitted, you can’t make changes on it that will reach whichever colleges have already received it (though you CAN make changes on it for subsequent schools, if you have any).
It’s not clear to me if both USC and Loyola Marymount received the incorrect–or confusing–version of your application. But, in any case, this is not a big deal. Just send a note to the admission office (or offices) briefly explaining this very minor error and clarifying the degree that you will have received by the time you transfer next fall. The college folks will most likely also see that you’ll be earning an Associate in Studio Arts for Transfer when they receive your transcript from your community college.
So no sweat here. Just send off a short clarification (via email–or via an update portal if there is one) and don’t worry after that. This won’t affect your outcomes.
Hi! I am wondering whether I should elaborate on my community college (DE) grading and course system. Some courses have A+s, and some do not. Moreover, while I said that I would take an honors course this winter at the same college, I am not sure whether I should add that honor course offerings are very limited, as I want to make sure that the AOs won’t think I avoided honors courses in the past. Thanks!