Between sophomore and junior year, I held a job starting from about the end of May to roughly the end of September. When I was filling this out, I just selected that I did this “All Year” since there was overlap into the school year (main reason I had to quit was because school was getting too crazy). But now, thinking back on this, I fear that admissions officers may think I was lying, as I put 30hrs/20wk a year for this job, and my other 4 ECs take up time anywhere from 5 to 20 hours a week. It just wouldn’t add up. I really did work 30 hrs/wk when I had this job, it’s just that it didn’t overlap with other ECs so that’s why it was manageable. So…should I attempt to contact the schools and change it to just summer instead of all year or should I just calm down and leave it? I really didn’t mean to mislead or anything, it just honestly didn’t occur to me that “All Year” may have a different meaning to them… 
@bwulv24 Is it clear that you worked 30hrs a week for 20 weeks? If so then they will assume summer and during breaks for the 30hrs. But if it looks like you are saying 30h week for the whole year, then u have a problem.
This is no big deal. If you think its unclear on your application, you can send a brief email with a clarification that you worked 30hrs/wk for 20 weeks over the summer and x weeks of the school year. The other ECs were over the course of the school year.
No one is going to think this is a lie. They might think your ECs time commitments are a bit confusing (but you won’t be the only one). The common app isn’t very well designed to accommodate situations like your, is it?
You will definitely want to clarify this though, the last thing you want is to go from acceptance to an auto reject pile over a simple mistake.
@suzyQ7 @cowtownbrown @N’s Mom Thank y’all. I feel like just to be safe I should send some sort of clarification. Should I just send an email to admissions? Hopefully the act of emailing won’t hurt me anymore than this dumb mistake 
There should be an email specifically for updating applications. For Yale it is admissions@yale.edu but it may be something different at every school
Just send them an email to clarify. If they suspect it is not true, they will assume all of your other ECs are not true either and who knows what else. I accidentally put too many years for something and I emailed them and they just said “thank you, this information has been added to your application.” P.S. make sure to send them your application ID in the email.
@cowtownbrown @anelson321 Thank you! I suppose the only way to get any peace of mind is to send a clarification email, no matter how much it’ll pain me. And I don’t feel entirely comfortable just hoping that they don’t think anything is fishy for 5 months. Will sending this clarification email hurt my chances, you think? (Of course it would be at my top 2 schools!) I doubt that something like this could tank my chances, but I’d rather not entertain the risk…
@bwulv24 dude… it will be fine. Like i said, i sent them (my #1) an email and they just said “thank you.” It shows that you are being honest, and if they deem one part of your application as suspicious when reviewing it, they will view the whole application as suspicious, like hm… what else did he lie about?
May to September is a summer job. It’s not the same as working “all year.”
It seems to me if the OP put 30 hrs per week for 20 weeks per year, he is covered. 20 weeks would mean approximately 12 weeks of summer (June, July, Aug) plus a couple more months (i.e. May and September are during the academic year) which is exactly what he says he did. The Common App does not make it particularly easy to cover all scenarios with ECs/jobs.
In my opinion, as he specified the 20 weeks, he’s in the right. No need for concern.