<p>I sent my Penn app today. For the Common App, I included an additional document that listed and detailed all of my EC activities. However, I noticed two minor errors:</p>
<p>-on my Common App activities, I put "10 hours a week" dedicated to piano, but on the additional document, I put "5 hours a week". The correct answer should be 5 hours a week, not 10.
-on my Common App activities, I did not check "I intend to participate in college" for one of my activities though my essays largely deal with participating in that activity in college.</p>
<p>How should I go about correcting these errors? Should I email Penn admissions and tell them about these mistakes?</p>
<p>I would just leave it. Penn Admissions is swamped with so many e-mails from applicants that minor errors do not really matter in the grand scheme of things. If you had, say, forgotten to upload an essay or checked off “Hispanic” instead of “Asian”, that’d be a different story. But your ultimate admissions decision won’t be based off of these minor errors.</p>
<p>Haha thanks, but I’m still a bit worried (probably b/c I’m a perfectionist). If they catch the error, what do you think they would feel?</p>
<p>Oh man I went back to double check and I have like 4-5 minor errors on my Activities Sheet and the Common App Activities Page -___-</p>
<p>As @hardworking21 said, only if it’s a big deal should you contact them.</p>
<p>Don’t point out little mistakes like that because they likely won’t notice in the first place, or would consider them no big deal. Pointing them out just draws their attention to it.</p>