<p>Ok the title should have been, “will colleges reject if I have a mistake in my application?”</p>
<p>As in, if i missed to fill out a field or I entered wrong information somewhere accidentally or I didnt enter anything when it was mandatory??
do colleges mail you and tell you about this and ask the information again OR do they simply put the application in the rejection pile??</p>
<p>Can you tell me for mistakes in applications as well…like in financial aid application … if there was a small mistake…will they reject me even i am a strong applicant…??
Does anyone know any real examples of this happening</p>
<p>What if I tell them and get the mistake corrected…will that still work against me and get me rejected??</p>
<p>I mean what should I do…leave the mistake there and hope that the colleges overlook it OR should I contact them and tell them to correct it or add the new information??</p>
<p>If it were me I’d email them about the mistake and correct it. This would leave a better impression, especially if the colleges have already noticed it.</p>
<p>well…i didnt answer the question “if u are not currently enrolled in school, what have you been doing since last enrolled?”
Now I have a very good and genuine reason for not doing so…</p>
<p>I am an international student… My GC once told me that this section did not apply to us international students as we work on a different calendar system. This question is meant for those who graduated early or are applying an year late. we on the other hand have a 3-4 month gap because of the difference in the calendar system…
now i graduated on 9/2005 and i filed my application on 12/2005…so there is that gap the adcoms will notice and they may naturally look for activities i did within that gap…</p>
<p>should i tell them about this or leave it as it is???
any advice would be much appreciated and thanks in advance for all those who do give their opinions!!!</p>
<p>should i explain them about the whole GC thing and why i missed it out in the original application…or…just tell them i forgot to enter that information and send them the answer to it???</p>
<p>Don’t worry about things like this. First of all, three months isn’t a noteworthy gap. If you’ve been out of school for a year or two, colleges might be interested in what you’ve been doing. A few months isn’t a major chunk of time. Students aren’t obligated to detail what they did over every school break, such as winter and summer vacations. Don’t worry about this.</p>
<p>More generally, though, don’t agonize over minor details. Personally, if I were a university employee, I would be irritated about students calling in to make very minor changes to their applications. Imagine sitting at the admissions office telephone, answering call after call from students along the lines of, “I accidentally wrote that I had attended band camp from June 12-July 16, when actually it ended on July 13. Could you change that in my application?” Don’t worry so much about the small stuff, especially when it’s already done; not only will colleges not reject you over something like this, they probably won’t even notice it. They don’t pore over those things for hours like the applicants do.</p>
<p>Colleges don’t use trivial reasons to eliminate students. If a student forgets to fill out something very important, in most cases, the college will contact them and ask for the information. What you describe sounds trivial, and I also agree with MaryCeleste: 3 months sounds like nothing.</p>
<p>“They don’t pore over those things for hours like the applicants do.”</p>
<p>Actually they pore only for a few minutes…but they do that in group discussion!
Each application is read at least 3-4 tiimes by at least 3 adcm members before making an accept or a reject decision!!!
it is as good as poring for hours.</p>
<p>Not really. Four readers skimming your documents and discussing their overall impressions is not the same as someone meditating at lenght on each line. After reading the most important sections and glancing through the rest, they compare their general sense of the applicant. I can’t imagine them coming together at the end and saying, “okay, did anyone catch any misspelled words or other tiny flaws?”</p>
<p>I made a couple of mistakes in my essays (I had one sentence that flat out didn’t make any sense syntactically) and I still got into Princeton, so don’t sweat it. I really don’t think they read that closely.</p>