Everyone has their share of that one stupid typo they didn't notice after submitting.

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<p>The title basically says it. Okay, not everyone, but most people. Mine occurred in the Common app additional information essay, and I can't believe I didn't see it.</p>

<p>I wrote "...as it is still development." instead of "...as it is still in development." or "...as it is still developing." </p>

<p>Can't believe I over-looked it, but I hope the rest of my application is stellar enough for that to be over-looked. I guess my head just subconsciously inserted the "in" without it actually being there and I'm hoping the readers don't see it as well :p. Do you think this would at all affect anything? :/</p>

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<p>It won’t. Now leave CC for three months, OK?</p>

<p>Seriously. Go enjoy life and get away from CC.</p>

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<p>I am reading through stuff I submitted to Yale EA 2 months ago (to send to other places in the next few hours…) and I am SHOCKED at some of the stuff I wrote:</p>

<p>In 2007, I and a friend and I started…</p>

<p>Thats how cool I am.</p>

<p>There are 2 of me.</p>

<p>Don’t worry, I am sure they expect a few silly things in an app - I was accepted despite this statement.</p>

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<p>In my QuestBridge app I used “it’s” instead of “its” at one point. Otherwise I haven’t noticed any errors yet.</p>

<p>Speaking of errors, (looking at your title) if we didn’t notice it after submitting then that means we didn’t notice it all and couldn’t be talking about it here, right? =P</p>

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<p>@FallenAngel9: I was aware of the title, but that’s all that fit and so I let it be, lol. </p>

<p>@Idiosyncra3y: Alright, I’m glad. Your error seems worse (not in mean terms) than mine lol. That is cool 2, there being two of you.</p>

<p>@T26E4: Yeah, I’m making an effort to get off here :p</p>

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<p>It’s not as bad as mine. I sent in a research paper as supplementary material. Before that, I sent my paper to my mentor to revise it. He had inserted in capital letters some editing remarks, and by accident I had forgotten to delete an entire sentence that he wrote just above my figures. It was so stupid, I wanted to die when I realized. It was soooo obvious. I was positive I wasn’t going to get in after making such a careless mistake, but lo and behold, I did. I guess they’re very forgiving.</p>

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<p>I said I made something and that thing I made was a place my mind took me. It made no sense, but I didn’t catch it until I submitted it.</p>

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<p>I just found it humorous, I wasn’t trying to find fault. haha</p>

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<p>DD left a small word out of her essay which, ironically, was about how she notices details…this was last year and yes, she was admitted anyway. I suspect she dropped the word when she cut and pasted into the common app because the original doc was perfect.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/573716-mistake-your-college-application-you.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/573716-mistake-your-college-application-you.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>The only mistake I noticed was that I misspelt museum in my Notre Dame app. It was simply musuem. I was admitted to ND though so I guess it all worked out. I did not notice anything in my Yale app, as I am simply tired of reading the same essay over and over again.</p>

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<p>2 things that I did wrong:</p>

<p>1) Didn’t put credit values on my senior year classes. I noticed after I submitted the CA… >_<</p>

<p>2) Forgot a comma in the Yale supplement essay: he replied “Blah blah blah…”</p>

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<p>Last year I accidentally wrote “late into the late” instead of “late into the night.” Whoops.</p>

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<p>I got this one. In my why Yale essay i talked about the “house system” instead of the residential colleges. The “house system” is at Harvard.</p>

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<p>~haha ouch</p>

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<p>I sometimes randomly think of a phrase here or there that I should have added or omitted. Bit of a bother, but that’s all so far for me-- I suppose it could have been far worse or better. I’m too afraid to look at my essay right now actually. I’ll give it a look after April 1st, haha.</p>

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<p>i don’t want to go over any parts of my app or essay b/c i don’t want to make myself sick worrying over silly mistakes i probably made :P</p>

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<p>The one mistake of my entire application occurred in the very first sentence of my Personal Statement :D. I wrote ‘compete strangers’ in place of ‘complete strangers’. Obviously, spell-checker didn’t catch it…</p>

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<p>Yeah I don’t wanna re-read my essays. Why find a mistake, just to worry about it for months?</p>

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<p>I’m not worried, and I don’t think you should be either; unless there are several (3+ at a hazard of a guess) obvious mistakes, adcoms will probably not hold any mistakes against you.</p>