<p>I got two jobs this past weekend, one as a waiter/busboy ($10/hr, 15 hours per week), and another as a dishwasher with janitorial duties (minimum wage, 30 hours per week).</p>
<p>Is it worth updating colleges with?</p>
<p>on a side note, I had mentioned in my additional information section of the common app that I’d be looking for part-time jobs early 2013 (which I have been, and it’s been going miserably all the way up until now); should I just assume that Princeton would assume that I never bothered notifying them about a part-time job because I already had one (or is it bad if I said I’d be looking for one and never notified them at all once I got it)? Because if I notify them now… that means that I haven’t had a job for the three months I said I would have/be looking for one.</p>
<p>I think they might be happy that you are working, but I don’t think it is worth an update. If I was them I’d see it as a last minute attempt to impress us, and then the jobs aren’t particularly intellectually challenging.
However, you can try and I doubt it would hurt your chances at this stage- so close to the final decisions being made. I think most updates at this point can either make no difference at all, or make a positive influence.
So I’d say go for it?</p>
<p>Anyone else got an opinion and/or information that might help at all with this decision?</p>
<p>No. For one thing, jobs you add now aren’t really going to be that interesting to admissions committees. And for another, most admissions committees are done reading. They’re either heading “into committee,” or already there.</p>
<p>^^^ I don’t understand the second part of your logic. What does it matter if they’re “done reading”? I don’t know that, so why risk it on the off-chance that they are done?
Specifically for schools like HYP, I think that even if they’re done past the first round of favorites, I don’t know if I got into the second round. Therefore, what’s the point on making a decision partially based on information that might be faulty/dependent on other information I don’t know?</p>
<p>But yea, I guess the first part of your advice makes sense.</p>
<p>They spend literally weeks shut into conference rooms before they finalize and release admissions decisions. They’re debating with each other whom to accept and whom not to accept. This takes up admissions officers’ entire work day for most of the month of March. So even if you sent new information at this late date, it wouldn’t be read.</p>
<p>What if I won like 3rd place at a state competition? Would it be worth updating then?</p>
<p>Invariably the answers to similar questions is a collective … No, do not bother.
Invariably the OP will ask for more opinions and rephrase it in an endless loop, hoping for someone to endorse the updating plan. </p>
<p>I will stop your agony here. If you think it will make you feel better, and perhaps, lower your apprehension, by all means … send it in. Most people think that it is a waste of time, but it is your time. </p>
<p>The silver lining is that you will know in a few days or weeks.</p>
<p>“Invariably the answers to similar questions is a collective … No, do not bother.”
Two people answered, both different answers. </p>
<p>"Invariably the OP will ask for more opinions and rephrase it in an endless loop, hoping for someone to endorse the updating plan. "
I asked for one more opinion because the first answer was unsure of itself, ending with a question mark. I also acknowledged that it’d be a good idea to not send it in. Furthermore, I asked a different question with completely different circumstances in my most recent question. A part-time job is different from placing top 3 at a state competition.</p>
<p>"I will stop your agony here. If you think it will make you feel better, and perhaps, lower your apprehension, by all means … send it in. Most people think that it is a waste of time, but it is your time. "
The agony has yet to be felt, I had created a thread today and not one day has yet passed. </p>
<p>“The silver lining is that you will know in a few days or weeks.”
I repeat my question: What if I won like 3rd place at a state competition? Would it be worth updating then?</p>
<p>Xiggi already gave you the answer: most people think it would be a waste if your time, but it’s not our time, so do whatever you like.</p>
<p>In general, at this point the only update worth sending is the kind where you can just send them a link to the article about you in the New York Times.</p>
<p>Sent from my DROIDX using CC</p>
<p>Wow, most often people argue after not getting the answer they expected.</p>
<p>Here’s my answer again:</p>
<p>If you think it will make you feel better, and perhaps, lower your apprehension, by all means … send it in. Most people think that it is a waste of time, but it is your time.</p>
<p>It wont hurt if you send it in, they may take the information through to the adcoms to read if they deem the update as important enough, but they wont regard you less likely if they think it was a useless update. </p>
<p>So send it in as nothing bad can really happen linked to it - I’d imagine anyway</p>