($) When to update the adcom after they have your app

January 15, 2020 by EssaySnark

You got your app in. Yay! You did your best to report everything about your background thoroughly and accurately. Double yay! Now you wander back to that app to admire your amazing work and… you discover an error. OMG NO! Or: You weren’t looking for a new job, but one falls into your lap. Lickety-split,…

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phan93 says

September 19, 2020 at 1:57 am

Thanks for the helpful tips! So what about the first case you mentioned, if you have a typo on a date in your resume for example, but you listed it correctly in the application form itself? Is that worth emailing the admissions office about?
- essaysnark says
  
  September 21, 2020 at 2:36 pm
  
  @phan93 – thanks for the question – and oh no! That must’ve been stressful to discover. However, because you confirmed that the dates are correct in the application, this is not something we’d suggest emailing the school about. Instead, if you get invited to interview, then that would be an opportunity to send in a new version of the resume and you could explicitly mention at that time that you corrected an error in the dates for the [company name] job, or something like that. This happens all the time. It’s not the greatest situation since it can indicate a lack of attention to detail but that’s also not something that a candidate would be rejected over in isolation.
  
  Bummer that it happened though, mostly because it probably induced a bit of panic when you discovered it. 🙁 It’s likely going to end up as a nonissue for you though.
  
  EssaySnark