slight mistakes on CV

[fastforward44]

Hi everyone! 

I am an international applicant and I just realized that in my 3 pages CV, I have made two slight mistakes: the year of a publication and a publication's issue number. Both of these publications are local, and in my point of view they are not important components of my CV. I wonder: is it worth trying to contact the grad admissions office to submit a CV without this mistake? Or I should let it go.

 

Any thoughts would be really appreciated! 

[cmykrgb]

Here are the comments I got when I discovered mistakes in my CV as well.

Edited December 14, 2016 by cmykrgb

[fuzzylogician]

I think you will be perfectly fine and the chances that anyone would even notice are very small. It's not going to affect your chances. I would personally just let it go, but if you're the kind of person who tends to brood and worry, just email and ask to replace the CV with a new one. Either it works or at least you'll know you've tried your best. 

[fastforward44]

Thank you guys!

So @cmykrgb now that you know you are not doomed  are you going to send your corrected CV to the department? You know, I just felt contacting them will bring attention on the mistake and might not be a positive thing. I don't know, perhaps I am just overthinking.. 

 

[cmykrgb]

1 minute ago, fastforward44 said:

Thank you guys!

So @cmykrgb now that you know you are not doomed  are you going to send your corrected CV to the department? You know, I just felt contacting them will bring attention on the mistake and might not be a positive thing. I don't know, perhaps I am just overthinking.. 

 

I am leaning toward not correcting it. My reason is as you said, I don't want to bring attention to the mistake. I did talk about that research experience in my statement and the amount of time I did research can be reflected on my transcript since I did it for credits.

I think your mistake is even less noticeable. Unlike my application, which has contradicting info, I doubt adcomm have the time to look up publications from each applicant let alone finding out the year on CV does not correspond to the actual paper online.

[fastforward44]

41 minutes ago, cmykrgb said:

I am leaning toward not correcting it. My reason is as you said, I don't want to bring attention to the mistake. I did talk about that research experience in my statement and the amount of time I did research can be reflected on my transcript since I did it for credits.

I think your mistake is even less noticeable. Unlike my application, which has contradicting info, I doubt adcomm have the time to look up publications from each applicant let alone finding out the year on CV does not correspond to the actual paper online.

I will do the same. Best of luck to us both!