Question about reporting IA

[atrmnky]

I know there are a million threads about this, but I wasn't able to find one that fit my specific situation.

I contacted my school's conduct office before submitting my primary, and they told me that the only thing on my disciplinary record was a minor alcohol thing (resulted in a warning, nothing else) from freshman year. I emailed them back to confirm that this was truly the only thing on my record, and they confirmed with me yes. As a result, I selected yes for the IA prompt on AMCAS and self-disclosed the alcohol violation.

Flash forward to now, and I have submitted a bunch of secondaries already. Boston U's secondary rolls around and they tell me that I need a letter from my school clarifying the IA on my primary. I email the conduct office again to see if they can do this for me, but in the process, they tell me that in addition to the alcohol violation, I ALSO received a noise violation on the same day as the alcohol stuff (both are filed under the same incident report). However, they forgot to tell me this when I emailed them back in May (even after asking them to confirm with me), and thus since I didn't know, I only talked about the alcohol violation in my primary.

Am I being neurotic, or should I tell all my medical schools that I just found about the noise violation today? Both violations fall under the same incident, and I did in fact report that on xx/xx/xxxx, I had IA taken against me for alcohol - I just didn't mention that there was also a noise violation the same day. Reslife only mentioned the alcohol stuff when I met with them freshman year, so I was truly unaware until now

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[atrmnky]

you are being neurotic, I wouldnt worry about it. However,ignorance is no defense. It is your responsibility to have known from the original incident from freshman year. If you are asked for a letter from yourself to the dean, you will say "due my oversight, I neglected to mention this incident led to both alcohol and noise IA" etc

Thanks for replying so quick, I really appreciate all you do for SDN. I agree that ignorance is no defense. I fully intend to be honest with BU now that I know about the noise violation, but was worried about the other schools I applied to, since it's too late to update primaries and secondaries. Just to clarify, it's fine if I don't email/call my other schools about this, correct?

 

[atrmnky]

It is not an issue and I wouldnt be concerned at all; certainly do not contact schools about this unless asked

Sorry to dig this up again, but I emailed my school's pre-professional office, and they told me to email all of my schools to update them about this oversight. I know that historically they aren't the best source of help, but I do want to make sure I don't get in any sort of trouble for not being honest. Do you think there are any consequences for not contacting all of my schools, versus contacting them?

 

[atrmnky]

Haha yeah, seems pretty silly if you put it that way. Thanks for being the voice of reason and answering my questions! This goes to show that A) I should go back to avoiding my preprof advising and B) quarantine is definitely messing with my head