So there's an inconsistency in my application. Bad?

Colleges & Universities Stanford University
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<p>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? 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>If my son or daughter came to me with that concern I would advise him or her to email the admissions counselor with the information. I would not be overly aplogetic or flowery in your email, just give the information in a declarative fashion. I think it shows that you are very concerned about your integrity (which is a good thing). Also note that your recommender gave you the letter. I don’t think its an overwhelmingly big deal, but sending the clarificaition shows that you pay attention to detail and that your are very serious about Stanford.</p>

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<p>^Agree with the above poster. You can find your admission officer and his/her contact info here:</p>

<p>[Contact</a> Your Admission Officer : Stanford University](<a href=“http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/counselors/officers.html]Contact”>http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/counselors/officers.html)</p>