<p>How negatively will one grammatical error affect my essay on my submitted application? The error was almost unnoticeable to me, and now that I see it, I feel absolutely terrible and uneasy.</p>
<p>FYI here's the error:
This was very a exciting venture to me, since I had already loved math, biology, and technology.</p>
<p>It should be: This was a very exciting venture to me...</p>
<p>Yikes :/</p>
<p>They probably won’t notice it (I myself had to look twice and carefully to spot it, even when I knew there was an error). If they do, it’s not going to make or break you anyway. If the rest of your essay seems sloppy or poorly written, this will just add to that impression (that is, if they notice it); if it’s a good essay otherwise, it won’t really matter. They most likely won’t even see it so it’s moot.</p>
<p>have fun at community college, every college is now going to reject you
/sarcasm</p>
<p>I didn’t even notice it either and knew there was an error! Don’t worry. :)</p>
<p>do you mean the “a exciting” ??? that is was supposed to be “an exciting?” …C’mon!!! its not that big of “an” deal</p>
<p>or do you mean it was supposed to be " it was a very exciting" and not “it was very a exciting”</p>
<p>My daughter left the word “a” out of one of her sentences in her essay last year. I feel your stress- but relax. She’s a happy freshman at an Ivy League school right now.</p>
<p>BioGen</p>
<p>My guess is that if one really looked, one could find a typo or grammatical error in virtually every college essay ever submitted.</p>
<p>In this case, it’s a clear typo. I wouldn’t worry about it.</p>
<p>I didn’t even spot it the first time around, and I was looking for it. An admissions officer blazing through essays probably won’t even notice, let alone actually care.</p>