<p>With the counselor rec. My counselor didn't have a couple of updates before she sent out her rec (she writes them in the spring and won't update them in the fall...strange). Will the adcoms assume I'm lying if I say something that she doesn't. It's only an increase in number of hours of one activity (only a couple more hrs/week) and a presidency in another that I didn't have last year...</p>
<p>This one's tricky...</p>
<p>can you tell your GC this problem specifically, and WHY you want her to update it? </p>
<p>Or else just decrease the hours and achievements to what she has written, as long as they are not too major a contribution. It's better to have done 100 hours instead of 150, than to be suspected of lying.</p>
<p>She's already sent it is the thing...and I've already sent my app (for ED). This didn't occur to me until after.</p>
<p>Ah I see.</p>
<p>Don't sweat it. It says 'approximate hours' on the form anyway :)</p>
<p>Thanks! It's really only the difference between 3 hours (last year) and 5 hours/week (this year) plus the presidency (which a lot of people only get in senior year), so hopefully it won't really phase the adcoms. My GC knows about the updates now too, so if they question it I guess they would call and talk to her and she'd confirm for me...</p>
<p>Now I'm freaking myself out again.:p What would happen if they did think I was lying? Would they talk to my guidance counselor? Because she would back me up but I don't want them thinking I'm lying and then just throwing away my app...</p>
<p>That won't happen, I promise!</p>
<p>I have a similiar problem. I don't know what my guidance councilor wrote about in her rec, and one of my teachers didn't write about my EC's, but the teacher that did write about my EC's didn't write about all the same ones that I put in my application. She just asked for an activity sheet that I had been making since ninth grade, so there was a lot more on it than the few things I actually mentioned on my application, and the day she showed it to me was the day before the postmark deadline because she procrastinated so I didn't really want to tell her that half the ones she picked weren't ones I cared enough about to mention in my app. So I wonder, if my GC also didn't talk about the same few that I did put on my app, will that cause problems or make them think I'm lying?</p>
<p>Balaylay - I highly doubt it. Adcoms know that your teachers usually just ask for an activity sheet and may choose to write about the ones that you didn't write about - they may value different activities than you do, if that makes sense.</p>
<p>Time for some anecdotal evidence - :) - I took 2 years off after High School and just applied to my favorite 3 schools; on all 3 applications I forgot a major major MAJOR EC that both my GC and teacher recs mentioned. Long story short, last Saturday I got all 3 acceptance letters in the mail - before any of the school's ED or EA deadlines. So don't worry too much.</p>
<p>what will happen if my counselor did not mention the ECs which i mentioned in the app...will they completely exclude those ecs becusae there is no verifications</p>
<p>So they won't think I'm lying because of the 2 hr/week difference? I also mentioned that I do this EC more often during the summer but I don't think she did, it should still be okay, right? I know I'm being paranoid but this makes me nervous because of all the horror stories about lying. I was so careful to be as accurate as possible and don't want this to mess it up...</p>
<p>I was an assistant director of admissions, a college counselor for many years, and the chair of my regional alumni secondary schools committee. I know a lot about this, from every perspective. Do not give any of this a second thought. In the extremely unlikely event that someone has a question, he/she will call your college counselor. Relax--all will be well.</p>
<p>Thanks, ivyalum. Reassurance from someone with experience makes me feel much better...</p>
<p>Your counselor isn't supposed to know everything about you (at least, mine doesn't). You'll be fine.</p>