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Replies to: Correcting application errors after submission or not
Thank you very much,
pokersharkaq
For Stanford, I just realized that I accidentally checked off the "International Agreement" box, even though I'm a U.S. citizen and applying for financial aid. What should I do in an instance such as this? Should I be panicking?
Thank you so much in advance!
If I put Flat 21 instead of Flat 22 as my permanent address (which is entirely different from my mailing address thus giving universities no need to contact me at my home address) should I go ahead and email them about the clarification or is it okay? Also, I forgot to mention my mother's former surname. Are these two mistakes big deals and could they highly affect my chances with the universities?
I'd really appreciate anybody getting back to me on this asap!
It sounds like neither of your mistakes will require any correction at this point. and they will not affect your admissions outcomes. As long as your mailing address isn't the same as your permanent one, you need not worry about that minor error ... at least not NOW. However, once you've decided where you are going to enroll, be sure that this university has your correct address.
Good rule of thumb (not just for you but for ALL college applicants):
Many things that students freak out about during the admissions process are not worth freaking out about.
Even the most egregious application errors (e.g., writing "Why I want to attend Wesleyan" on the Wellesley application) are not instant deal-breakers.
Major downturns in grades, felony arrests, or forgetting to hit the "Submit" button until a month after the deadline are all worthy of a freak-out. But minor mistakes like yours will either be overlooked or can be easily corrected with no negative consequences.
1. On the Yale supplement they only give you space for 2 SAT scores (1 score being: critical reading, writing, and math). I have taken the SAT 3 times and don't have room to put one of the full scores, what should I do? As i took each SAT, my score went up so it was well worth it to take 3.
2. I made some pretty stupid typos on my common app submission to stanford, specifically these: "I thought had I thrown" instead of "I thought I had thrown", "spanish" instead of "Spanish", "advertisment" instead of "advertisement" and "a quite a while ago" instead of "quite a while ago". I also forgot to capitalize a proper noun in the additional info section for one of my extracurriculars (that was a reoccurring mistake). Should I send them a fixed version of my extra curricular list, extra curricular additional information paragraph, and disciplinary statement (where I fixed the mistakes)?
I sent the common app to both Amherst and Bates with the "a quite a while ago" instead of "quite a while ago" typo and the proper noun not capitalized I'm not sure how severe that is
I honestly kept finding typos after I submitted but i have no idea how. My dad proofread, I proofread, my college counselor proofread some of my statements.... it is pretty insane.
After I submitted all applications, I realized that there was a mistake on my activity section, one of my EC/Volunteer... it was the first one, volunteering at the hospital, and I only volunteered for 2 years, 10 and 11 grade, but I accidentally put 9~12 grade. Also, the hours I volunteered, it was supposed to be 100 hrs/year, but I put like 200 hrs/year...
man I feel so stupid.. so instead of 200 hrs which I actually did, I did like 800 hrs @[email protected]
I already sent emails to all schools, but do you think they will fix this stupid mistake?! I know it's a major mistake.. but I hope it goes okay..
An important award is a national award that only the applicant (and perhaps a handful of others) won, or a state award that only the applicant won. National merit semifinalist doesn't come even close to qualifying. Yes, it matters to schools that give merit money to NMSF's. It doesn't matter to MIT. (And if he is applying to one or more schools that offer such scholarships, they'll find out about it without his having to include it on his common app.)
I don't know how many kids were awarded the B & L honorary science award . . . but if it was hundreds (or thousands), there's no point in mentioning it.
With regard to updates, if your son has an important update, he needs to contact each school and ask how they want him to submit it.
Also, instead of asking the question in my own thread, I have one about whether an 'award' or 'honor' is significant. All of my applications were sent in late October-early November. I have just recently sent an update to all colleges changing my second-semester schedule (almost all colleges I called wanted a personal update + mid-year report).
I had been assisting an English professor earlier this year (in the fall) that was included on the application. I have just now confirmed that I am going to be working with a translator (I had worked with her before through my professor, assisting my professor who was helping the translator, and I've now gotten this job) as either an editor or co-translator on a couple of different projects (as a result of the intial RA'ing), including one that is a grant from the literature translation institute with whom we are under contract for a short novel. The project is likely to take at least a year and is a 'real' academic job (if that makes sense at all). Is that worth an indv. update/ask my gc to include it in the mid-year report?
Thanks-- sorry for the length.
If it's just the report of a new activity or an award, then it doesn't matter who submits the information. But you should aim to consolidate updates so that the colleges aren't receiving a flurry of emails. (And many students will not have ANY signficant updates to send.)
Your new translation position does sound atypical and thus worth mentioning, whether it comes from you or from the counselor. But since you've just sent colleges an update, this might be good info for your counselor to include, if his or her mid-year report is still pending.