Guys, I’m feeling immensely stupid. I made two mistakes on apps; does anyone have advice?
- I copied and pasted an essay about "why do want to major in x?". In the first school, I want to do neuroscience and in the second I want to major in cognitive science. But for the second school I wrote 'neuroscience' in the essay twice and cognitive science only once. btw, the second school has a neuroscience major as well. What should I do?
- For all my colleges on the common app, I copied and pasted essays from Microsoft Word. Apparently once I pasted them the common app took away my indents and spaces between paragraphs.
Am I screwed? Can/should I contact the schools?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
You should be fine. Adcoms are humans too. For issue 1, you should be fine as long as you selected the correct major in the common app questions section. For issue 2, unless it significantly removes meaning from your essay (which it shouldn’t), don’t bother.
Let it go. I don’t think you want to draw attention to this mistakes. They do not change the substance of your applications and AOs are extremely busy this time of year. I guarantee they are seeing many of the same error as mentioned in #2, particularly from students who are getting in their apps these last couple of days.
Error 1: unfortunate, but will have 0 impact.
Error 2: this is more a problem with the CommonApp than you. Very common… no need to worry.