<p>After reading through my essay about 16.2 million times, I submitted it thinking that there are no errors in it. Lo and freaking behold, I read it after submission and spotted this grammar error that makes me sound like a retarded oaf.</p>
<p>Could I mail my new essay to them? I changed one word only. If not, what am I to do?</p>
<p>No, don’t send in a new essay. Stanford has explicitly stated that it does not like the submission of excess documents. How serious was the error? Even if the adcoms did catch it, I highly doubt they’d reject you just because of it. </p>
<p>P.S. I made an error myself - spelled “mannerisms” as “manniersms” in my 150 word extracurricular activity essay - and ended up sending that to schools such as Harvard and Princeton before I noticed it. So in terms of making unintentional errors, you’re definitely not alone.</p>
<p>If you dig deep in the Common App (within the help option buttons, etc) you’ll find the explanation for updating and submitting a different version of the application - this is not a correction but rather a whole new app, which in your case would be different by one word. There’s also a thread in CC that explains this.</p>
<p>Might be easier if you sent admissions an e-mail explaining the error but they probably see a lot of little mistakes; almost certainly won’t determine whether you get in or not.</p>
<p>I also edited my essay several times, and then I read it after submission and found like 3 stupid grammatical errors, which is embarrassing because I am a grammar Nazi.
I still got into Stanford though.
I wouldn’t change it if I were you</p>