Application inconsistency. I'm terrified.

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>I sent in my application for Stanford Early Action yesterday. One of the 9 activities I wrote on my app is that I’m a member of our school’s UIL Literary Criticism academic team. Yesterday, one of the teachers who submitted a rec letter to the commonapp website gave me a hard copy of her letter. She wrote, mistakenly, that I’m on the math and science UIL team. </p>

<p>Oops. </p>

<p>UIL isn’t one of my main activities (ranked it 6th out of 9) but I spend enough time doing it that it’s fairly important to me. As minor a detail this is, I feel like the adcoms noticing one inconsistency will lead them to feel dubious about my entire application, and I’d feel the same way if I was an admission officer.</p>

<p>Do you think they’ll notice that I have UIL lit crit written in my app but UIL math/sci mentioned in my letter? Will they at least email me/her for confirmation? Will they just trash the app? Should I email them? Should my teacher email them?</p>

<p>Should I just join the math and science teams tomorrow and fax in this additional information? I’m scared, guys</p>

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<p>It seems as though you and your teacher just had a miscommunication. Though it will probably be fine regardless, if I were in your shoes I would email admissions and let them know about the inconsistency, and then confirm which team you are really on.</p>

<p>I doubt admissions will fault you for a misunderstanding.</p>

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<p>Please don’t follow up about this. If they notice, they’re not going to care. They understand that teachers have many, many students and can’t always keep track of the details. As long as you entered the correct info on your part of the app, that’s what matters.</p>

<p>Also, and this is important, it is not your place to correct a recommendation that was submitted on your behalf!!!</p>