Honor's college essay mistake-embarrasing!

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<p>After looking at my son's essay to an Honor's College today I can't believe he overlooked this mistake! On the essay it should have read : "The Honor's Program brings together a group of tight-knit individuals who all share the same goal...." But, instead he wrote "The Honor's Program brings together a group of tit-knit individuals ....!" I couldn't believe it and he submitted this more than a month ago! It says on the essay page you can't correct it after submission and they are all due in 2 days. Should he contact the school or should he just pray it was overlooked?</p>

<p>Help!
Thank you!</p>

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<p>Well…it made me chuckle…maybe the reader will chuckle too. </p>

<p>I’m not sure there is anything you can do about this. It says on the essay page that you cannot correct it after submission.</p>

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<p>I would be more concerned about “The Honor’s Program.”</p>

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<p>My son probably got in a big hurry. He’s involved in so much and seems to speed through everything. I usually read over his essays. Another life lesson I suppose… I wonder if he should give them a call? Or hope they don’t see it.</p>

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<p>Obligatory “at least it’s not clam fart” post.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/470497-clam-fart-oh-my-god-what-did-i-do.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/470497-clam-fart-oh-my-god-what-did-i-do.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>It said on the essay page that “it could not be corrected after submission”…so what do you think they will do if you call? It can NOT be corrected.</p>

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<p>If he doesn’t get in, it won’t be because of this typo. </p>

<p>I also second ML. </p>

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<p>@rebeccar‌ - Didn’t that kid ultimately get into Yale? Maybe OP’s son’s typo could help him rather than hurt him, LOL. :slight_smile: </p>

<p>Hey - at least tit-knit rhymes. Adds a sort of rhythm to the sentence. </p>

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<p>love it preamble1776!</p>

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<p>Do NOT contact the school over a typo. They know a typo when they see one. (Even if it isn’t a typo, as in, even if he actually thinks that “tit-knit” is the correct term, it can be passed off as a typo. That’s the sort of auto-correct that could easily happen if you left the “g” out of “tight” or something.)</p>

<p>There’s a good chance the reader won’t even notice it any way. But do NOT contact the college – at best you’ll make them think you’re an overanxious worrywart, and at worst you’ll actually call their attention to an error they wouldn’t have even noticed if you’d left well enough alone.</p>

<p>@rebeccar, thanks for the link to the clam fart post. An inspirational story for us all! </p>

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<p>I started reading the sentence, and didn’t get past the greengrocer’s apostrophe. Probably most people don’t have such a visceral reaction to greengrocer’s apostrophes, though. </p>

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<p>You are not alone on that, @Cardinal Fang</p>

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<p>@"Cardinal Fang"‌ I had the same reaction. What makes it worse is that “Honors College” was probably on that application at least 5 times. It was probably even in the prompt.</p>

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<p>That probably won’t matter either. People who care about such things seem to be a dying breed.</p>

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<p>I dunno about that, @dustypig. Post #2 has 13 Likes.</p>

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<p>Ha, so it does . . . including from the OP (??)</p>

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<p>Gee, “tit knits” would be a great name for … something.
Tight sweaters?
(Ugh, Alpha Delta Alpha! What a tight knit bevy of nitwits in tit knits!)</p>

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<p>^I probably shouldn’t admit this, but that made me laugh!</p>

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<p>Actually, that was my mistake. I looked back at his essay and he didn’t do it. Whew…</p>

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<p>I wrote Honor’s College he didn’t.</p>