Will colleges let you edit after you submit your common app? Urgent Help Needed

[darkhound173]

I miscalculated my extracurricular hours, and I really messed it up. Will colleges let me edit this? Will this look really bad on my part?

[darkhound173]

bump

[CCSenioritis]

You can’t edit the application once you submit it. For extracurricular hours I doubt they’ll care about the amount of hours so much as the quality of it so you should be fine. If worse comes to worse I suggest you email the college/university and tell them to disregard that number and give them the correct amount.

[ClaremontMom]

Once an application or writing supplement has been submitted to any institution, you cannot make any changes to it (just as if you had dropped it in the mail), and we are not permitted to make changes on your behalf. In general, the Common Application is designed to be completed one time and submitted to all of the colleges at once, or over a period of time. If you need to change information on a submitted application, you must contact the college’s admission office directly to ask how they would like you to proceed.

**That said, you can make changes, and submit it to other institutions.

https://appsupport.commonapp.org/link/portal/33011/33013/Article/96/Change-to-submitted-application

Just how much did you miscalculate?..it probably won’t matter unless you put down 1,000 hours when it was 10.

[darkhound173]

@claremont I had like 700 EC hours when in reality, I only did like 300-400.

[BrownParent]

I would send a short email of correction directly to admission, since it seems like you doubled already large hours.