<p>After reading the common app numerous times, I noticed a mistake..... "Both my mother and father grew up in the provinces grew up in Fuzhou, China in the provinces of Fujian." I repeated saying "grew up" and "in the provinces" I already sent my common app to all my schools. I don't know how that mistake went by me. Will this have a drastic affect on my acceptance? I am in panic mode. </p>
<p>Don’t panic. I had to read the sentence three times to find the error. My eyes skimmed right over it, even though I knew to be looking for the problem. I think the place names there become an anchor for the eyes and I have to force myself to look at the duplicated words.<br>
Even it is noticed, an isolated typo like this is unlikely to have any impact on your acceptance decision.</p>