What if another school’s name appear in your essay?
I recycled my personal statement and discovered this mistake after submission. I was planning to apply ED2 to this school. Will it devastate my chance?
I wrote them a letter explaining that I used the essay for several colleges and that was an unintended error. I also apologized, and almost told them it’s my first choice 'cuz I wanna apply ED2.
Do you think it will help? Any suggestions?
<p>I would think that it could make a very serious impact on your application... obviously, schools understand that students recycle their essays, but if I were an adcom, I'd be thinking that the least this kid could do it read over their essay for my school.</p>
<p>thats a serious mistake....</p>
<p>The adcoms always warn you about writing another schools name in an essay</p>
<p>When we first toured Rice two years ago with D and went to the info session, the adcom rep said that Rice gets a couple of essays every year with "Harvard" in them. She didn't act like it was a deal-breaker, and I'm sure it won't kill your chances.</p>
<p>DO you think it worths applying ED2?</p>
<p>maybe theyd jus pick u in the ED ROUND to **** u off....if they think u dont wanna go to their skool.</p>
<p>You applied ED and didnt even take the time to make sure your essay was in order? </p>
<p>Im sorry...thats just terrible...</p>
<p>It might not hurt your chances though, depending upon how good the school is and how qualified you are...if you end up on the line, this might turn off just enough committee members to reject you...</p>
<p>hate to say that, but mistake like this is a killer. when i visited georgia tech, they specifically said one example where some kid recycled his essay and forgot to change the school's name, and the adcom basically said, "well, good luck with that school, coz u aint' getting in ours', soo yeah, it's pretty bad</p>
<p>Send in a correct copy and ask them to exchange this for the one that they have. Hope that they haven't yet had a chance to read your original.</p>
<p>Your probably screwed. With all the applicants they get, why would they want someone who makes such mistakes. Gee, I think they'll just take someone who didnt make it. LOL</p>
<p>If you're borderline, it will hurt you badly. If you're a clear admit, then it shouldn't be TOO much of a problem, but you never know...</p>
<p>Hurry up, send in a new application, and say that the second one is a new and more complete application with updates. tell em to please disregard the first one.</p>
<p>Resend the application and add a letter to disregard the original one...it's that easy</p>
<p>what school was it?</p>
<p>do whatever you can to get the problem fixed because i know at harvard and yale there have been instances where one name was improperly placed in the other school's essay and the student was rejected right then and there.</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, I was once talking to a GW admissions officer and she made a semi-facetious comment about reading essays where people had written the name of a different school. When I asked what they did with applications like that, she said that the staff understood that lots of people are stressed and that many people don't have time to write a different essay for each college they are applying to and that mistakes can happen during copying and pasting...basically they don't make as big a deal out of it as you would think.</p>
<p>"do whatever you can to get the problem fixed because i know at harvard and yale there have been instances where one name was improperly placed in the other school's essay and the student was rejected right then and there."</p>
<p>As a Harvard alumni interviewer, the story doesn't ring true. Harvard knows there's a huge overlap in applications with Yale. It would not make sense to reject applications for the kind of error that was described.</p>
<p>Thank you guys...I'm really worry about it....
and Im thinking of withdrawing that ED and apply early to my second choice school</p>
<p>colleges want to make sure that the people applying are those who make sure of how to organize their things. big mistake to mix up college names.</p>