<p>My teachers and counselor wanted me to fill out an info sheet with my activities so they could write their rec. I think I might have included an extra year on one of the clubs that I have been in on accident. So, if their recs say that I have been doing something for all 4 years, but my application says only three years, will this be a big problem?</p>
<p>No, it shouldn’t matter very much. Colleges will probably think that the teacher made a careless mistake but it won’t count against you.</p>
<p>Ummmm no it won’t be – no one will care or notice. A bigger problem will be their recitation of your resume rather than giving specific anecdotes of how YOU did in their classrooms. Read this for pointers:</p>
<p>[MIT</a> Admissions | Info For Schools & Counselors: Writing Evaluations](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/schools/writing_evaluations/index.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/schools/writing_evaluations/index.shtml)</p>
<p>No. If anything, they might think the teacher is misinformed, but it isn’t going to be a dealbreaker. If you’re really concerned, email the colleges or just tell your teachers (if they haven’t sent the recs out yet).</p>
<p>This type of mixup happens all the time, and no one in the admissions office will notice. They’ll only look at one place, your application, for that kind of detail. They will assume the teacher didn’t have the most recent information. Do not do anything about this. Do not email the teacher or the college or they’ll think you are either obsessive or overstressed. You may be both, but no need to make that point.</p>
<p>ok so even if say all three (or four for some schools) have this info in there and it is wrong (that one bit is wrong), it will be fine?</p>
<p>Yes, fine. It is just not that important.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to be the moral police, but aren’t you the same poster who asked whether lying–err, I mean, unawarely increasing years of participation–was subtle enough to go unnoticed by adcoms? </p>
<p>If you are trying to fudge your years of participation to extend to all four years of high school…well, you probably don’t care about ethical violations to begin with, so I won’t mention it.</p>
<p>elaine–I posted that earlier because someone else told me to “just list the year I was unsure about” I don’t ever plan to lie. The only thing is the paper I sent my recommenders probably has the inaccurate date. To be safe, I am listing the lower number on years of participation. Using the higher one would not be fair, and now I am just curious if i list the lower one will that cause some problems since it won’t match the recs… But no, I don’t lie or cheat, thank you.</p>
<p>eliane, the OP is one of the few CC posters with threads like this who is not trying to get away with fudging years. funnyman, I admire your desire to be honest, but this is a non-issue. They will assume the teacher misremembered–easy to to now that you’re president and a big presence in that club. No worries.</p>
<p>glassesarechic–thanks for clearing that up. Glad to hear it is not an issue.</p>
<p>I was reassured, but then there was the discussion about how Harvard accidentally admitted a guy and he had a ton of inconsistencies on his resume. But his sort of inconsistency was actually something big (like his forged rec letter said he was at his school for 2 years, but his transcript said 4 years), and how he took 16 AP tests. Am I thinking too much to think smaller inconsistencies will result in automatic rejection? I’m talking about something like the teacher says you did something for 12 weeks, but on your app it says 10 weeks. Are those seriously bad?</p>