<p>I submitted my essay online for Yale, but I used the same essay as the one I used for MIT, and there is this bit where I mention MIT, and forgot to change it to Yale!!!!
What the heck do I do?</p>
<p>someone else did this too; search the words autoreject</p>
<p>...didn't mean to sound negative or anything, but that was one of the words in the thread...</p>
<p>oh man that sucks... when I attended a Yale information session, they mentioned that you definitely should make sure that doesn't happen, because its happened before and it ****es them off... :-/</p>
<p>FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm sorry.
I'll probably get banned from this site or something.
But, damn, I'm dumb!
So there is not way to fix this up?
I searched autoreject, doesn't come up with anything relevant.</p>
<p>sorry...auto reject; 2 words; anyway, I took the liberty to find it:</p>
<p>Can I like just send them an email, apologise, tell them I put the wrong one on, and send a word document containing the corrected one?</p>
<p>Well, thanks Anonymous.
But, I can't withdraw the supplement I sent and send a new one!
I guess all I can do is to write them an email.
Would anyone know where I should send such an email?</p>
<p>I think that if you sent the Yale admissions office a correct copy of the essay, with a note explaining that you submitted them the wrong version, that would mitigate some damage. But it may be too late; you should certainly have thought about this before today!</p>
<p>hmm...call them and let them know....honesty with acknowledgement is the best policy in my opinion; you can't hear the "sorry/i made a mistake" tone in an e-mail like you can when you call them</p>
<p>Choice #1 - Find out who at Princeton prints and files the online applications for the admissions committee members. Get a suitable bribe (flowers, chocolates, unmarked twenty dollar bills...) and send it directly to that person in overnight mail along with a dozen hardcopies of your corrected essay and a note begging them to make the switch.</p>
<p>Choice #2 - Pray that MIT accepts you.</p>
<p>Princeton, BD?</p>
<p>Sorry, Yale for Choice #1. It is late.</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> If he submitted the supplement online, of course, that wouldn't be an option...even if that option weren't so obviously a joke...</p>
<p>I wrote my MIT essay first, and liked it so much that I used it as my common app essay. I'm forever thankful that I didn't make a direct reference to MIT anywhere in it, because I'm so scatty I <em>would</em> have done the same thing as the OP.</p>
<p>That bad, huh?
I thought so........
Well, I'll write them an email.
And ring them up.
But, when do you think they are working?
Surely, they're not working on New Year's Day?</p>
<p>doing both is redundant and bothersome for them and you--you're just flaunting your mistake; just call them on the 2nd and then the 3rd if no one responds the second; just call every day until someone responds</p>
<p>Hey Eric--I'd email them the right version of the essay asap. Decide whether to call or not later.</p>
<p>Ouch. I feel for you. I'd write the email first too, since that will definitely reach them. And I think, too, that I'd wait for a reply first before calling them up. When sufficient time has passed (depends on your level of anxiety) and if I still don't hear anything, I'd call them up.</p>
<p>I hope things turn out okay for you.</p>
<p>;) Lucky for me, I avoided this whole problem by... TADA, not even mentioning college names in my essays!</p>
<p>Except for the "why do you want to go to ____" essays, obviously.</p>
<p>I mentioned College X in my main essay one time near the end, for every college... but I proofread everything (including the whole application itself) before sending anything. Sorry, you should have been more careful.</p>
<p>Yeah, well, I obviously should've.
Thanks for your advice.
I did send the email a couple of hours ago.
It was sincere and apologetic, I think; well I tried to be anyways.
Hopefully it's not thaaaaat huge.
I mean, Yale should know that people use same essays for different unis, especially when, like the Yale supplement, they don't give you a topic.
And sure, it was extremely dumb and careless of me to not have proofread it, but it happens, mistakes happen, and I almost immediately realised the mistake and tried to correct it, and hopefully they can understand that.</p>