I was randomly going through my old emails and realized that I put the wrong year (correct total hours) for one of my shadowing experiences. When I was filling out my primary, I misread my emails, so even though I shadowed during the summer between high school junior and senior years, my primary app says I shadowed during the summer after high school. I've already gotten acceptances, and I'm wondering if this is something that I should inform the schools about. One of the schools specifically said they don't take updates.
Incorrect year
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Deep breaths you're totally fine and the acceptances you've received are the evidence. They either:
a) don't read the dates THAT carefully or
b) just don't care
Either way, don't sweat it and congrats
a) don't read the dates THAT carefully or
b) just don't care
Either way, don't sweat it and congrats
I'm most likely being unnecessarily anxious. It's not that the schools didn't read it carefully, but it's that I wrote the incorrect year and never clarified anywhere else. So even though it was from my high school years, it appears to be from right before college. If schools ever decide to verify, I don't want them to think that I intentionally forged the years to make it look like it was done in college.
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Do you have zero (verifiable) shadowing hours from after that time?
I have ~70 verifiable hours from my college years. @Catalystik
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That is well over the average, even without counting the HS shadowing hours. May I ask what specialties you included in the (most recent) 70 hours?
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I think you're safe to inform schools about the correct dates, as your appeal does not rest on the HS shadowing experieneces.
For the school that specifically said they don't take updates, would it be okay to wait to inform them until they ask (after they verify my activities)?
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An update and a correction are not the same thing. It's probable that school would accept a brief email correction, just as they would an email about a new Institutional Action, accidental omission of a past serious offense or old transcript, or a request to be removed from further consideration (withdrawal of the application). That said, the chances that they will try to validate such a long-ago shadowing experience is very small, but not zero. If an activity could not be corroborated, I'd hope they'd contact you for further clarification. But I can understand not wanting to have this hanging over your head, even though I'd consider it a minor issue myself.
