Application inconsistency. I'm terrified.

killbeefgoham
Mon, 04 Nov 2013 23:12:11 +0000

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.

Oops.

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.

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?

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