<p>That I forgot to catch before sending out?</p>
<p>It's the omission of a "to" for a required infinitive. The essay was some of my best writing ever, but how much would this marr the essay in terms of chances?</p>
<p>Does it reflect really badly on you if you apparently didn't manage to completely proofread?</p>
<p>WHAT! YOU MESSED UP! Do you have a community college near you? Hope so....</p>
<p>(Remember, unless you are applying for a scholarship, your essay will not be scrutinized with such an eye for grammatical detail)</p>
<p>Hey, it is just one error. I think you'll be fine! You sound intelligent, and if the essay is a good read they probably won't notice the mistake. Don't worry, be happy.</p>
<p>(It's the omission of a "to" for a required infinitive)</p>
<p>LOL...I'm going to be an English Major, I was a writing tutor in my college's English Center, I consistently received A's in all my advanced English courses and I got accepted into NYU CAS for the Spring and I barely understand what you're talking about,lol... No one is going to care that you missed one thingy for the infinitive whatever.... hehe ;-) - You'll be fine.</p>
<p>yea, whatever. i had a [edited out for language] essay and it had to harbour a few mistakes here and there. and i'm rather apathetic about it. hmm. maybe not. </p>
<p>well, apps are out. nothing one can change. but really, just pray that the merits are spectacularly blinding enough.</p>
<p>Part of the reason for my fear is that I have written in British English throughout all my essays, and thus I use spelling conventions that when combined with my single error might be interpreted as very proliferate errors ...</p>
<p>you misspelled mar...oh noes! ; ) don't sweat it.</p>
<p>No college
1.has such fine, paper-thin difference between candidates that an omission of 'to' makes a difference...</p>
<p>2.has an admissions committee that has such time/memory on their hands that they recall the mistake. i'm sure i read they read the essays before discussing em? .....one typo?the average is probably 3-5.</p>
<p>Stop obsessing, if anything, stop putting your essay on a pedestal. In the large scheme, it is highly unlikely that you had an excellent and original essay...if you are concerned about small things like this, chances are your essay is neither.</p>
<p>No, I wonder if it's supposed to be grammatically perfect. As far as I know, in many university grading schemes for political science papers, having more than two grammatical errors makes an F.</p>
<p>Of course, it would be imprudent for me to judge my own essay as excellent and original, but I meant to ask a case wondering that even in the best case I would have a severe disadvantage. I wrote my essay on being interrogated by my country's authoritarian government, which doesn't respect free speech, and on how I had boasted to my friends that the authorities had interrogated me for hours -- without telling them that I had been free to leave much earlier. (I stayed that long because I kept on wanting to convince the officers that the laws curtailing political speech were unjust and abusive -- I was 14 then.)</p>