I found spelling and grammatical mistakes in my common app activities list and I’m freaking out! Will this hinder my acceptance? They aren’t blaring but they are there!
My thought on these sorts of errors is that (unless they are really horrible mistakes) if the school otherwise wants to admit you the mistakes won’t keep you out. But if the adcoms are not that impressed and are looking for a reason to reject you then the mistakes may serve that purpose.
You can always email your regional admissions officer with an “updated list of activities” to correct the typos. You just need to make sure that you change some of your descriptions or activities so that the grammatical errors are overlooked by evident changes to your application. My friend did this for UMich last year and ended up getting in, despite worrying about her mistakes obsessively. You’ll be fine.
Dobutful