Mistake on common app?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>I submitted my common app, but just saw on the print preview that my short answer for the extracurricular was cut short. I didn't notice it before, and the last couple of sentences are missing now</p>

<p>Should I email the admissions office with the full short answer?
Will they penalize me for the mistake?</p>

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<p>It depends on how much was lost, and its weight. Are those several sentences highly important? Do you think they can affect your application. </p>

<p>If the answer is yes to any of the questions, you should contact the admissions office. </p>

<p>But regardless, Yale will not penalize you for making that mistake.</p>

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<p>You should email them the last 1.5 sentences.</p>

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<p>Welp sorry budd, you can’t do anything about it. Once the common app is sent, its sent. Good luck.</p>

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<p>The common app is sent, but colleges accept amendments if an applicant lets the admissions office know.</p>

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<p>Was it cut short because it exceeded the character allotment for the answer?
If so, then your choices would be

  1. leave it as is
    If you can’t bear that, then
  2. rewrite this section of the ECs so that it fits in the character allotment, then ask if you can resubmit the entire app again (you would have to talk with them when they reopen from the holidays, which is after the deadline) or
  3. email them with the reset of the sentence, although I must say that the chances that it gets read with the rest of your essay in the correct place is virtually 0.</p>

<p>Did this happen to all of your apps? Personally, if it were me, I’d leave it as is, and chalk this up to lesson learned that all of the final pdfs must be printed out and read with a fine tooth comb before submitting for all of your future apps and future important submissions.</p>

<p>“Will they penalize you?” Well, the number of applicants will be approx 29,000, so they will be reading/skimming pretty fast. Most or many of the applications will have a complete paragraph here. If you had to read 30-50 apps per day, of the caliber of student applying to Yale, and you had to exclude at least 80% of them, and you read your paragraph as it is currently written, what would go thru your mind? Would this change if you had to search thru the rest of the file to find an email to finish reading the rest of the file?</p>

<p>Thus, if you can’t bear it, then you could talk with admissions and resubmit a new app with that paragraph rewritten; but they might not allow this.</p>

<p>Also, fix it for all of the other schools that you are submitting the common app.</p>

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<p>If it’s an egregious omission, e-mail Yale and they will attach it to your file. They won’t be happy, but they will do it.</p>