How bad is my common app essay mistake?

Applying to College
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<p>I wrote a really good essay that i've proofread a million times. I just discovered that I sent in my older version, which has "complement" instead of "compliment". That's the typo. I applied to Princeton and other hard schools with this essay before I caught it. How bad is this? </p>

<p>I sent in a note to the schools with the corrected essay asking them to please consider it.</p>

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<p>pretty bad. It shows carelessness more than anything else.</p>

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<p>agreed, and the fact you mailed them just makes it even worse. You should have just let it be and not seemed so needy</p>

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<p>seriously??? content>grammar!</p>

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<p>Wait! You might be OK. From what I can tell, at least 50% of all people seem to misuse those two words. As I see it, you have two saving chances:

  1. Although you intended “compliment”, you should really have intended “complement”, and your typo actually saved you!
  2. The person reading the essay won’t know the difference.</p>

<p>That’s .50 X .50; only a 25% chance of being nailed!</p>

<p>:) Seriously, it’s not going to matter!</p>

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<p>Now that I think of it, although I was joking in my prior response, #1 actually might apply. It seems more likely that the word “complement” would be used in an essay. Check it out!</p>

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<p>what do you mean?</p>

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<p>What was the sentence?</p>