<p>I made a small typo in one of my essays for Brown. It was just an added letter in a word. Honestly, if an adcom catches it, how bad will it be?</p>
<p>Don't worry about it. The adcom may not see it. My DD had a typo on one of her Stanford essays and she was accepted. If you search CC under typo, you will find several threads where others will tell you the same thing.</p>
<p>They probably will catch it and think you are very careless and too lazy to proofread it over and over again.</p>
<p>I got into UNC chapel hill with a few horrible typos on my application, like missing a word that made the sentence confusing for a second kind of typos. I was in such a rush with that deadline, it was my first one, and I read it over after the fact and stressed about it for 2 months until I got my decision.</p>
<p>It's not great, but there's nothing you can do about it so I wouldn't worry. My main essay, which I had read hundreds of times, had a typo that I finally realized before I sent off 10 of my applications (thank god!) Sometimes when you know what you wrote you can just completely miss something.</p>
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<p>Don't worry. I got into Caltech with a couple of egregious typos, and I was an essay-based admit (I assume).</p>
<p>Most college adcoms will be so hard pressed for time in reading your app, they probably won't even notice. And even if they do, it should be all right. (Unless your definition of a typo is writing Haverford for Harvard. :D)</p>
<p>I had a small typo (I added an apostrophe in 'recipes') and got into Penn, Dartmouth, UChicago and Northwestern. In fact, both two of my english teachers read the essay over 10x each and didn't pick it up (but an 11 year old I was babysitting pointed it out.) I don't think adcoms are that strict about minor typos (as long as its not too distracting or obvious.)</p>