On my common app, I put that my mother is a housewife (because even though she teaches kids, it’s not an official organization ) but for my activity section, I put that I helped the tutoring organization made by my mother (which shows that my mother works and has a job).
Will the college contact me about this? I am afraid that I will lose chances in other colleges because that college might let other colleges know that I lied.
Volunteering is work, but not considered a job.
You’re going to be fine. Don’t stress.
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Mentioning a tutoring organization does not suggest a paid job. (Is she paid?)
ps I have not seen the term “housewife” in a long time. Generally the terminology now is “stays at home” or better yet, “community volunteer.” But you are fine.
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Is your mom paid for her work? If so, she has a job.
No. The college admissions office will not contact you about this, and it will not discuss your application with other colleges.
Is your mother paid for tutoring and does she pay taxes on this income? You don’t need to answer this here, but this will be important to sort out with your parents if you apply for financial aid, before completing the FAFSA.
But I put that activity as a paid work because I did get paid a smalll amount of money.
My mother also gets paid by it because it is like a small thing she does to earn some more money for our family.
For the college that I submitted my application with mistakes, I do not really care if I get in or not since it is not the school that I really want to go to.
But I am afraid that the college will think that it’s lie (since I put that as a paid work activity while saying my mother is a homemaker).
Lots of stay at home moms have a little side gig, I don’t think they will think anything of it.
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Agree with others. No issue. But even if it were no one would ever make the connection.
The other thing to keep in mind is that not every piece of information that you enter into the Common App is used by colleges in their evaluation. The CA also supplies data to other companies (like college marketing companies, data companies, etc) some of that demographic information is used more by those companies than it is by the AOs.
The colleges will very likely not even spot this discrepancy, and even if they do - it’s far too minor an issue to be disqualifying.