<p>I am sorry to post this when everyone is worrying about making the deadlines … but I am a real panicker so I cant help it… Basically for my COmmon App essay I based the WHOLE essay around my grandfathers small bedouin village called Hurghada in Egypt and how unspoiled etc it is. So yesterday I was on an Egyptian tourism site and it turns out there is a MAJOR city called Hurghada which is a huge tourism attraction in the same area. What is the counselors mistake one for the other/think I am lying?? The whole essay will lose meaning?! Shall I email to clarify? Or am I just panicking unduly? </p>
<p>Once again, sorry for this slightly trivial problem</p>
<p>i think you need to get some sleep; you’re overworked from nerves.</p>
<p>You will be fine.</p>
<p>If they think you are lying they will obviously look the village up or something.</p>
<p>thats the problem - there is no record of the village as it is so small!!</p>
<p>Card, I’m with pineapple on this one. Your admissions committee will consist mostly of 20-somethings just out of college themselves, who’ve probably never heard of Hurghada. And if they had… well, you know how many cities and towns of varying sizes have the same name in the US? You could have written about New York, population 5,000. Don’t worry. They’re not going to give it a second thought.</p>
<p>Hurghada is a pretty famous place for tourists. It was the first place I looked at when I was looking at trips to Egypt. If anyone in the admissions commitee has been to Egypt, they will probably have heard of Hurghada.</p>
<p>But as far as I know, it hasn’t been that way very long, so since the essay was about your grandfather, the city probably was unspoiled when he was young. </p>
<p>So I think you’re fine. :)</p>