<p>On the application that I submitted, I made a one word mistake. </p>
<p>In personal statement prompt 2, I centered my essay around an event that happened to me in my sophomore year. I never explicitly mentioned "sophomore" but I said last year (I'm a junior transfer) so that hinted when it took place. I also talked about failing a class so if they looked at my transcript, they should know it was indeed my sophomore year.</p>
<p>BUT in another part of my application, I referenced the same event but I wrongly put it happened my freshman year. </p>
<p>I think I'm screwed!! Will they think I falsified the whole thing because of the discrepancy? </p>
<p>Will contacting the schools to make the correction worsen it?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about it. If they ask, tell them it was a typo. It’s not like the event happening freshman vs sophomore year would have a big affect on your app (ie, reporting a grade wrong is really bad and would be a “call and fix” sort of thing), or as if you’d have any reason to lie about it. If it really bothers you, you could try contacting them… but for something like this it’s probably not worth drawing attention to, imo.</p>
<p>Will they get a chance to ask? If so, that would be so great because I have proof (a police report). I would rather them come to me than me come to them. I don’t want to contact them if it’s really no big deal and have them doubt everything in my application.</p>
<p>Thanks for your input though. I lost sleep over this believe it or not lol</p>