<p>I submitted my essay online for Yale, but I used the same essay as the one I used for MIT, and there is this bit where I mention MIT, and forgot to change it to Yale!!!!
What the heck do I do?</p>
<p>OH NOEZ</p>
<p>Well I've seen a couple instances like this on College Confidential. and there really isn't anything you can do but cross your fingers and hope for the best. If the rest of your transcript is good I'm sure it won't matter. Obviously it won't help you but I'm sure colleges get this all the time. So chill out! Really, Yale knows you're not only applying to them, not a surprise really. Just make sure you show some interest in Yale to begin with!</p>
<p>Can I just like write them an email, saying I sent the wrong essay, and send the correct one in a word document or something?</p>
<p>what's the nature of the mistake? </p>
<p>Can you post the part with the mention of MIT instead of Yale? I think it makes a difference.</p>
<p>In the essay, I talk about how long I worked for the International maths olympiad and that, and how I thought it was gonna be like impossible, but I somehow made it.</p>
<p>The following is the ending:
As I am writing, I can see the medal hanging on my wall. It's slowly finding its place in my comfort zone. I ask myself, "Can I handle MIT?" I think I hear a familiar whisper: "why not?"</p>
<p>I would send them an email immediately, apologize for the mistake, and attach the correct document. I'm sure they'll understand.</p>
<p>You can find the email for your regional adcom here:
<a href="http://www.yale.edu/admit/contact/staff.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.yale.edu/admit/contact/staff.html</a></p>
<p>hmm I would definitely then bring it up and try to correct it. Call them - dont email (or do both) - saying that you sent the wrong essay, and ask them if you can replace it. Hopefully, upon receipt of the new one, they'll just discard this one without ever reading it.</p>
<p>haha you are so screwed.</p>
<p>Thanks man.
Means a lot to me.</p>
<p>"Can I handle MIT?" I think I hear a familiar whisper: "why not?"</p>
<p>Tell them you think the last paragraph may have been truncated. It should have read:</p>
<p>"Can I handle MIT?" I think I hear a familiar whisper: "why not? But Yale would be even better."</p>
<p>That's actually not a bad idea.
But I just sent a sincerely apologising email to the person who I think manages all applications from New Zealand, and attached the correct one to the email.
Should I ring him up as well?</p>
<p>no, don't bother to call. </p>
<p>I don't think the truncated paragraph is a good idea - it's an obvious lie. </p>
<p>I think your apology letter should be fine. Rest assured, that if they were going to reject you, it wouldn't be for only this mistake. If you were going to get in without the error, chances are you're still qualified enough to get in. Admissions officers aren't evil. If your apology letter was good enough, you should be fine.</p>
<p>yea...dude seriously, the damage has been done.</p>
<p>even an apology letter probably wont help.</p>
<p>they know that they are not unique in your eyes and youre going to have to work your ass off to correct this.</p>
<p>i suggest a call to your regional asap</p>
<p>bob, you remind me of spydertennis.. oh what have we got here? u from long island too?</p>
<p>btw, that ending sounds a little cheesy.. lol, just my 2cents</p>
<p>who is spydertennis?</p>
<p>yea im on Long Island.</p>
<p>i think we are all over reacting. just revise your essay and send it off telling them to replaceit with ur current one...</p>
<p>I was so scared that ill somehow forget to change these things too...</p>
<p>no way bob is spydertennis.</p>
<p>Ha ha; this is funny. Yes, I'm callous. But come on--can you imagine this adcom getting all into the essay, saying "Wow, this guy really wants to come to Yale" and then WHAM!</p>
<p>Hey, OP, don't sweat it. On my supplement the word 'I' got cut off from the third sentence of my essay and I look illiterate. Everyone's got problems in their apps.</p>
<p>I would mention that it used to say yale, then you switched it to mit but accidently mailed the mit one to them. that way it looks like you wrote it for yale and changed it for mit.</p>
<p>I think the damage is alreayd done... </p>
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Hey, OP, don't sweat it. On my supplement the word 'I' got cut off from the third sentence of my essay
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Ya I think they can tell a typo from a copied and pasted essay :o</p>