Accidentally doubled my activity hours in this cycle vs. last

[nontrad1001]

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Hey everyone,

I just realized I made a huge mistake in my app. I'm a re-applicant and I accidentally reported almost double the hours for 2 activities compared to my last cycle. For one activity, I put 590 hours instead of 400, and for the second, I put 70 hours instead of 30. **(The first activity is my only non-clinical volunteering hours.)** I was trying to be more accurate with reporting the activities this time, and re-entered everything (dates, description, etc) without looking at my old app. Since these activities were quite some time ago, I guess I may have ended up overestimating the time I actually spent. There were other discrepancies as well but they were more minor, like from 720 to 740, and 40 to 50 hours. And one of the activities even went down by 50 hours.

I am panicking. Is this going to jeopardize my chances if I don’t fix it? Do I need to fix all of them? And if I make the corrections, do I need to call or email every school individually?

And should I try to correct the hours as well for the schools where I will be a first-time applicant?


I'd really appreciate your input.

 

[LizzyM]

Small potatoes. No one is looking that closely or getting excited about those numbers. 590 is not even a 50% increase above 400 let alone double. Don't give this another thought.

 

[nontrad1001]

Small potatoes. No one is looking that closely or getting excited about those numbers. 590 is not even a 50% increase above 400 let alone double. Don't give this another thought.

Thank you for your reply! I didn't give the exact numbers for privacy reasons, but when I calculated it's actually a 51% increase. Will it really be okay to not correct if this is your only source of non-clinical volunteering? I'm worried they'll look at my old app and think I was trying to purposely increase my (non-clinical volunteering) hours.

 

[PickaGodnPray]

Thank you for your reply! I didn't give the exact numbers for privacy reasons, but when I calculated it's actually a 51% increase. Will it really be okay to not correct if this is your only source of non-clinical volunteering? I'm worried they'll look at my old app and think I was trying to purposely increase my (non-clinical volunteering) hours.

Best advice I can give to you, or any premed, is to just answer this question "Is this something I can change?". If not, don't worry about it and focus on what you can actively impact. If you tried to be honest in the actual amount that is what matters and you obviously have reasons for how you got to those total hours, so you're fine. If it comes up, just say, "I underestimated my hours last cycle and believe what I cited this application are more accurate" but it won't come up.

 

[nontrad1001]

Best advice I can give to you, or any premed, is to just answer this question "Is this something I can change?". If not, don't worry about it and focus on what you can actively impact. If you tried to be honest in the actual amount that is what matters and you obviously have reasons for how you got to those total hours, so you're fine. If it comes up, just say, "I underestimated my hours last cycle and believe what I cited this application are more accurate" but it won't come up.

Thank you, I appreciate the input!