<p>on one of the personal statements for the brown supplement, i made a typo....after the end of the statement i apparently wrote "afsf"............will this hurt at all or is it too insignificant?</p>
<p>It will probably be enough to keep you out, but who knows. Maybe the adcoms will be incredibly forgiving that day.</p>
<p>But it's a serious error.</p>
<p>it's not insignificant; neither is it bad enough to keep you out, in my opinion....everyone makes mistakes.
Having said that you should've been careful, but i guess you already know that by now!</p>
<p>It's really bad. You better start groveling in front of the admissions officer.. They'll see you added a monstrous four-letter vulgarity at the back! Such indiscriminate usage of letters is strictly not tolerated among Ivy applicants.</p>
<p>ok...so theres 2 different opinions on this...one guy thinks it'll keep me out and another thinks it doesn't matter....so which is it? can a little four letter typo at the end of a statement keep me out of college??</p>
<p>It won't keep you out, it's might just make them double take/be one little tick against you...</p>
<p>Personally, I think something like that (you probably just pressed some random keys to get rid of your screensaver while you had the essay pulled up) wouldn't count against you nearly as much as an error like their/there, are/our, etc. misusage.</p>
<p>ok thanks...im not too worried about it now...theres no point anyway, its submitted....i did see it though and i thought i got rid of it, but apparently i didnt save after i got rid of it....thats what annoyed me about the commonapp, how you had to save after every little thing and they dont even prompt you to save if you go to another page or something</p>
<p>at least they will know that a paid consultant didn't write your essay. at least that is what I told myself when I saw a typo my son uploaded into a common app</p>
<p>Yeah, I was being sarcastic.</p>
<p>Dude, it doesn't matter <em>at all.</em></p>
<p>I doubt they would care about four meaningless letters. So don't worry.</p>
<p>It matters for one reason: It translates into "you didn't care enough to check every detail"
It is not this board, that you can write as if you were texting if you please, but it sends an underlying message on the level of care/effort you placed in this app.
If you can, in the next apps, please check with your English teacher before submitting, OK? =-?</p>
<p>bicyclekick...it really isn't a big deal. In all honesty, I wouldn't think twice about it. My son is not going to correct an obvious typo on his supplemental essay.</p>
<p>another option is to mail in a hard copy of a corrected version in an 8by11 envelope.<br>
memo on top of it (very briefly...no more than 2 lines)
that you were bothered by a typo, and if possible, could they scan the attached supplemental essay into your folder, which only removed some nonsense letters and does not alter your essay at all.</p>
<p>Put your name and SSN in upper right corner of all documents always</p>
<p>some clerk just might do that for you.<br>
after all, you can still FAX significant awards and have them added to your file in early winter..people do it all the time...</p>