<p>Tell then…tit-knit is the only error.</p>
<p>Let it go. The school says no changes can be made after submission. What is your kid going to say when he calls “I know that changes are not permitted…but can you change MY essay?”</p>
<p>Think about it…makes no sense to call.</p>
<p>I’ll let all of you know if he gets in!</p>
<p>Hope he get’s in (typo intended, lol … sorry). With our reliance on spell check, I can see how something like that can slip past the final review. And thank you @rebeccar for the link to “Clam Farts” - I was a first timer reading that. True story or not, that thread sure made me laugh.</p>
<p>Honestly, I have a hard time believing that actual humans read every word of those essays. I think that if it was, like, a <em>lot</em> of typos or if it was something egregious like leaving, “I would like to attend Harvard because…” in your copy-pasted essay for Stanford, then that would be a reason to be concerned. But to my knowledge they are looking for professionalism in terms of the construction but more importantly the student’s voice and what they can contribute. A single typo shouldn’t change anything. </p>
<p>An admissions officer from a top-10 college who spoke at my D’s high school said not to worry if there is a typo. </p>
<p>It should be a" tight-knit group of individuals" not a “group of tight-knit individuals.”
(What is a “tight-knit individual”: someone wrapped too tight?!)</p>
<p>That gave me a good morning chuckle</p>
<p>DS was hammering out some supplement short answer questions at 11:45 last night and there’s no way I’m going back in the cold light of day to proof read. Let sleeping dogs lie . . . what’s done is done.</p>
<p>The submit button was hit early here – 11:35PM. Afterwards I noticed a problem with verb tense in D’s common app essay. Oh well. This was in a section that hadn’t changed in days, and even her teacher missed it. I think I’ll stay quiet about it at least until she catches up on her sleep.</p>