We just discovered a major omission from the common app.

vaboots
Sat, 07 Feb 2015 22:17:45 +0000

My D is applying to several competitive colleges; her stats, essays and extra curriculars (especially leadership) are all very good. The waiting game is difficult for me, so I spend a lot of time here lurking on CC. Today, after reading stats for students accepted/deferred/rejected from a few of the schools, I thought I would take a look at her common app to see how she compared. I was shocked to see that she only listed four activities (instead of using all ten). I asked her if she had done that because she thought it might look like she was spread too thin, but she seemed to think she had listed all her activities. Some of these included leadership and mentoring, so I think she just forgot to go back to that section. I am obviously upset and wondering if it’s too late to add the rest of her activities. Is it out of line for her to write a letter to the universities and explain that it was an oversight and that she has completed that section now?