Should Applicant Correct Small Activity List Mistake?

On my daughter's Early Action (EA) application, she didn't correctly identify the name of a local organization for which she does volunteer work. She miswrote just one word in its title, and then she passed this title along to her guidance counselor who made the same error in her reference letter. So if my daughter applies to other colleges, should she change the organization's name on her Common App? If she does, it won't match what her counselor wrote in her reference. And should my daughter write to her EA school about the mistake?

Your daughter need not write to her EA school now. The busy admission folks won't be thrilled to hear from her during this crazy time. But ... if she is admitted EA, she should send a quick correction then. This is advice that "The Dean" wouldn't have offered last year, but today — in the light of last year's notorious admission scandal that involved phony "recruited athletes," — some colleges, especially a few prominent ones, have ramped up efforts to verify student activities. Moreover, they're not just scrutinizing alleged athletes to check for total track-record fabrication, but they're digging for less egregious exaggeration among other resume items as well.

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