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<li><p>I include the information that I took some free courses from Yale Open Course? Is it true that I am disadvantaged at Harvard?</p></li>
<li><p>I made a mistake in reporting the number of hours of extracurricular activities in my Common App. Should I report this to admission officers and how? I am scared that they are bombarded with many emails from all around the world so my case is not carefully taken into consideration.</p></li>
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<p>No, it is not true. That is nonsense.</p>
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<p>Is it an enormous error? (Did you add a zero to the number of hours you spend per week visiting old people in the nursing home?) If not, it’s probably not very important to Harvard.</p>
<p>What above said. If the error is massive (so that if they add up your service hours per week it comes to more than the hours in the week…) then definitely email them. If off by a factor of 2 or so, probably email them. If you said 15 instead of 12, then meh. Forget it.</p>
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<p>Why do you perceive that that would be a disadvantage?</p>
<p>^ Cos he said YALE in a Harvard app (GASP~!!!)</p>
<p>err actually the number of hours per week I spend on activities is just about 43 but in common app, it is about 53. Do you think 53 is too many and admission officers think that I exaggerate too much ?</p>
<p>I don’t actually know, but I strongly suspect nobody in admissions is going to read the EC hours all that closely.</p>
<p>I’d notify them. With 35,000 applicants, any inconsistency is a good excuse for your application to be dropped like a rock. They check all their email, so don’t worry about that.</p>
<p>But, there is NO WAY that they will notice that small a difference. I am divided. Either way will probably make no difference. Maybe just email them to be safe…</p>
<p>Anyone can help me post a personal email of a Harvard admission officer as I once emailed the Undergraduate Office a question but they just read the subject of my email without reading the whole message and then copy something relevant to the subject of the email but irrelevant to my question.</p>