Inquiry from an admitted student re application mistake

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Hi, I am very happy to say that I have been admitted to my MBA school of choice. :) Thanks a lot for your inputs. They truly helped a lot.

After much celebration, I turned sentimental and browsed through my MBA Application form - one of the many I spent sleepless nights crafting. To my surprise, I realized that I actually entered my GMAT component scores incorrectly in the application form.

My Overall GMAT score was correct, but I mistakenly interchanged my Quant and Verbal scores.

My scores should have appeared as follows:
Overall: 760 (99%)
Quant: 49 (88%)
Verbal: 45 (98%)

But i typed it as:
Overall: 760 (99%)
Quant: 45 (98%)
Verbal: 49 (88%)

Careless mistake, I know. But clearly, this was an honest mistake, given that the raw scores as typed should have had different percentile figures. Likewise, I also sent my official scores to the school, and they should have it in their records.

My question, therefore, is this - is there anything for me to worry about? I mean, could it be possible that the basis for the admission was the self-reported percentile scores? And a correction of this, regardless of reason, would endanger the decision?

Or does the admission committee verify reported scores prior to decision? I know for a fact that a verification process is impending, and I am not sure if this will raise any red flags.

At any rate, do you have any suggestions on what I should do, if anything?
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by Lisa Anderson » Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:13 pm
Dear bughaw,

The school will use the official score report sent by the GMAT test administrator. So, it is highly probable the school already saw you flipped your raw scores. I really don't think it is something to be concerned about nor do I think you should do anything about it. It happens from time to time, so you are definitely not the first person to flip them when typing them into your application.

Congratulations on your admission!
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