Egregious error ?

Applying to College
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<p>I just realized that I have an activity which I had done in the summer after my 10th grade ( involving 20 hours per week) marked incorrectly as done in my 11th grade summer break in the common application. This by itself is not a major issue I think but I have also listed correctly that I worked 40 years in the summer after my 11th grade summer. So, the application looks like I have done 60 hours in my 11th grade summer instead of 20 hours in 10th grade after summer and 40 in 11th grade after summer. I looked to CC for some help on what to do and I found this thread :
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1270588-correcting-application-errors-after-submission-not-3.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1270588-correcting-application-errors-after-submission-not-3.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>There the "Ask the Dean" person says not to report changes unless the error is egregious .</p>

<p>My question is: Is my error egregious enough to call the admissions office. SCEA decision is expected this week for one of my colleges and I have 3 more which I applied RD ( all competitive). Please help. TIA</p>

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<p>Not egregious. Doesn’t need correcting.</p>

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<p>Thank you MrMom. </p>

<p>My fear is :

  • It looks like I didn’t do anything in my 10th grade summer ( I have 8 hrs/week of some other activity. That is all)
  • My 11th Grade summer looks packed and may look bloated</p>

<p>okay you think ?</p>

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<p>It’s nothing. I spent that summer playing softball in the neighborhood and goofing off. That’s *allowed *too.</p>

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<p>Definitely not the sort of error to worry about or bring to the attention of the schools where you’ve applied.</p>

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<p>For anyone on here who has worked in admissions, I guess my question would be “would it hurt the applicant to notify the schools he has applied to of the error?” The error is clearly minor, and not intentional. Because here is the other side of the coin … if the applicant does not get in, will he constantly be wondering if he didn’t get in because the college questioned the 60 hours that summer and wondered what else he may have exaggerated on… I would think a simple and brief email to the geographic admissions counselor would be fine… (just not repeated emails…)</p>

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<p>Yes, I was going to give the same advice as momof2 – just send a short email to the admissions officer for your area. Something like,</p>

<p>‘I wanted to offer a correction to one item on my common application. The extra curricular item “blah, blah” was incorrectly marked as summer after 11th grade, when it should have been summer after 10th grade. I just wanted to make this clear to avoid any confusion regarding the timing of my summer activities. I am very excited about my application to <college x=""> and am looking forward to receiving my admissions decision. Please contact me if you have any questions. Thanks! yetanotherid’</college></p>