Drastically underestimated activity hours on application. Should I send an update email?

[Knowaboutme]

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I recently looked at my application and realized I ridiculously underestimated total hours for some of my EC's. One example, I ran track and field for university for three years and only submitted 100 total hours for it. I did the same with other activities. Should I send an update letter to schools correcting the hours? I understand this will look as if I did not review my application thoroughly, but as it stands currently, I imagine it is a red flag.

 

[Doug Underhill]

Having a subpar EC with not that many hours into it is not a red flag. It's more of an empty flagpole, I would think. Red flags are serious problems like a poor GPA, a poor MCAT, an IA, or a criminal conviction.

What you have here may be considered a "questionable judgment", which includes things like miscalculating your EC hours, or applying one day before the application is due, or misspelling the school's name in your assays. Harverd tends to look down on such things.

 

[Knowaboutme]

Would an email correcting the hours be helpful or completely useless?

 

[unnumzaan]

...or misspelling the school's name in your assays. Harverd tends to look down on such things.

Are you doing this on purpose to be funny? 🤣

 

[lickerwhicker]

what did you end up doing? i'm in the same boat