hi im new to cc so forgive me if this was posted in the wrong place. so basically i finished my college app szn this past may, and im getting ready to start uni in two weeks. for the past month or so ive been receiving emails about first-gen programs. i thought it was weird, but i brushed it off thinking that i may have counted as first-gen since my parents grad college outside of the us. however, today i decided to check my common app and to my horror, i realized that i accidentally put highschool as my parents’ highest degree of education. this was completely a honest mistake. only after reviewing the question now, i realized that college and grad school was an option once you scroll further down. i feel horrible that i misrepresented myself on my apps, and i’m mortified by this. however, for both of my parents i gave them the prefix dr., and for one of them, i even listed them as a faculty/professor of the uni. Both of them also have pretty high ranking jobs that i listed in detail. furthermore, the uni also separately asked me if i identified as a fgli and i checked no. based on this context, do you guys think that during the admin process, the reviewers actually interpreted me as a fgli student? should i still report this to the admin? i’m so stressed out about this, and i can’t imagine getting rescinded now.
Don’t worry about it.
You could do nothing and just let it die.
Or do something:
Reach out to the fgli office. You could state that on commonapp you checked your parents completed HS , then indicated their job title was “Doctor”, and made clear they had graduated college abroad. As a result you don’t consider yourself FGLI and wouldn’t want to use up resources meant for FGLI students who need them more than you do.
If someone has better wording I’m sure they’ll post it below.
You won’t be rescinded at that point.
You already asked this elsewhere. And got lots of answers. Time to move on.
What college ? May have zero impact.
thanks for the advice 
pretty reputable private institution (t20)
So tell them or don’t. Likely no matter at this point but if it’s going to forever bug you tell them so you stop thinking about it.
Who looks at their common app months later ?
I’d personally go to school and move on but you need to be satisfied with yourself.
Or you could go to the events and learn from them - like, what did you always take for granted that really is only a byproduct of luck (ie., parents, where you were born/grew up, etc )..
Interesting idea, and I see where you are going with it, but might make the other students uncomfortable if/when the OP would/should then acknowledge their application error if they attended any of these events. OP is already embarrassed by their error. Wouldn’t seem prudent to potentially call more attention to it and add insult to injury.
True. 
Writing an email or dropping the matter entirely would be my first picks. If OP doesn’t show up to events they’ll stop emailing.
Probably so. Though if someone compiled a master “blast email” list from something on the application that suggested first gen., the OP might continue to get them (and could continue to ignore them/send them to “file 13”/ delete them.)
It’s likely automated indeed. So 